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Fired crude heater in service for 30 years . it is a cabin heater with horizontal tube coils. The convection contains twelve (12) original finned carbon steel tubes (A106 Gr B) and four (4) 5Cr-0.5 Mo (A335 P5) alloy tubes. The radiant contains 36 tubes - 5 Cr-0.5 Mo materials...
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I have segments of ~ 50 m Non-Piggable Pipe at well site ass you this section we can to run pig through it for cleaning or chemical treatment. Due to our situation we forced to suspended all our production wells and we applied the massive suspension / Mothballing for main flow line and...
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We have field small refinery to produce diesel ~10000 BFD API =36, BS&W=0.05 and salt= max 4 PTB in our plant already designed one stage deslater my question in such case need to operate this unit I mean mix crude with service water or no need. See below the water and crude...
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I have question about Desalter operation. I need to know what is wash water type and specification are recommended for desalter, references and codes such as API, NACE....etc ( see attached file).
I know that some refinery companies are using service water or stripped water. I asked...
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The exchange tube bundle was found with one tube has been damaged; seems to be during handling & transportation; two dents has been observed. NDT LPI "liquid penetrate Inspection” was conducted and showed no indication of cracking. Impact area caused a dent within damaged area...
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We have field diesel distillation unit and we have plan to inject pour point chemical to heavy oil product ( Residual) which goes to crude tanks for storage. I have some concerns about injection point orientation.
As good practice we normaly inject the chemical on the top of...
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We have small refinery called Topping Plant we only produce Diesel from it in Our Field. I Have one concern about temporary shut down from this plant for only ( 1 to 2 months) not for maintenance only due to security situation.
My question here any procedure will be applied when such...
Hi every body. AS you know we are using the Copper cable for DC power (Negative and positive cables)in the cathodic protection system and this good practice. But I was wondering if possible to use Aluminum cable instead of Copper and this due to theft cables out side our plant. Moreover, would...
