pentair alkylate cs ltre2013
ALKYLATE PRODUCT PROCESS STREAM CASE STUDY PROCESSOR RENTAL WITH COMPAX ELEMENTS Pentair deployed a 36-inch ProcessOR® rental vessel from its fleet to a mid-continent refiner for an alkylate product process stream producing iso-octane, a gasoline component. The plant had experienced frequent plugging of their custody transfer filters at the gasoline loading rack and suspected that the contaminant was coming from the alkylate unit. A system survey was performed by Pentair’s STAR Labs comfirming this suspicion. The filter vessel was rented and then placed in service. It wasn’t until three months later, when the vessel reached terminal differential pressure of 30 psid and was at 45 psid on when the vessel was opened for change out. The vessel was heavily caked with solids upon change out. Our filtration was so effective they had to remove the first row of COMPAX® cores to shovel out the solids inside the vessel. The vessel was online for just over two months and only recently started building differential pressure. The flowrate of the alkylate product (iso-octane) is 205 gpm with a flux rate of 0.12 gpm/ft2 through twenty-five (25) of our 51 series elements with M10 MICROFORM media. The photos below reiterate implications of low flux rate and high solids removal. Without this rental vessel and the high performance element technology, all of the solids would have gone downstream into the gasoline tanks that feed the truck loading rack and would have plugged up the custody transfer filters.
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Fig 1 & 2 shows Pentair’s 36-inch rental vessel that contains twenty five (25) of our COMPAX coreless elements removing particulate contaminants from the Alkylate product feed prior to tankage. The vessel was in service for approximately two months prior to building in excess of 30 psid of differential pressure. Fig 3 shows the significant quantity of particulate in the bottom of the vessel that was removed from the Alkylate product Fig 4 illustrates the spent filter elements with a thick cake of contaminant on the surface of the media. This shows the effectiveness.
(936) 788-1000
www.pentairseparations.com 4301 West Davis Conroe, TX 77304
The enclosed information is the property of Pentair and is furnished in confidence solely for the purpose of evaluating Pentair technology. It is not to be copied, communicated or distributed without the expressed written consent of Pentair.
CALK01_LTRE2013
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Fig 1 & 2 shows Pentair’s 36-inch rental vessel that contains twenty five (25) of our COMPAX coreless elements removing particulate contaminants from the Alkylate product feed prior to tankage. The vessel was in service for approximately two months prior to building in excess of 30 psid of differential pressure. Fig 3 shows the significant quantity of particulate in the bottom of the vessel that was removed from the Alkylate product Fig 4 illustrates the spent filter elements with a thick cake of contaminant on the surface of the media. This shows the effectiveness.
(936) 788-1000
www.pentairseparations.com 4301 West Davis Conroe, TX 77304
The enclosed information is the property of Pentair and is furnished in confidence solely for the purpose of evaluating Pentair technology. It is not to be copied, communicated or distributed without the expressed written consent of Pentair.
CALK01_LTRE2013
