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  1. whoislee

    Hydrate forming regime.

    Give the details of the gas parameters and we may be able to help. There are 2 sides of a coin One is to give, one is to take Give until it hurts with a smile
  2. whoislee

    Desiccant substitute

    Dessicant is used because of it's good drying properties compared to other drying methods. It is a dry method of drying where reaction is not desirable. There are wet method of drying like TEG. It all depends on what is the aim of the drying process. There are 2 sides of a coin One is to...
  3. whoislee

    Hydrate Formation

    For the well, would recommend methanol. Methanol will be able to dissolve under high pressure compared to glycol. Since cost is not a factor, no issue with methanol. Hope this helps. There are 2 sides of a coin One is to give, one is to take Give until it hurts with a smile
  4. whoislee

    non-wetting for liquid ammonia membrane

    Install a liquid separator prior to the gas membrane. This should take care of the water content. Next install a ammonia gas membrane filter. Anyway, what's your purpose to filter the ammonia vapour? There are 2 sides of a coin One is to give, one is to take Give until it hurts with a smile
  5. whoislee

    soluble iron in bore water

    Beware of iron fouling on the RO membranes...it will cost much to clean and membrane life is shortened. Best to remove iron prior to RO via greensand filter. There are 2 sides of a coin One is to give, one is to take Give until it hurts with a smile
  6. whoislee

    pretreatment for surface water membrane filtration

    There is no other backwashable prefilters to meet the specs of 10 microns. MMF removes 20 microns and larger with the aid of coagulants and flocculants. Without chemicals, the efficiency drops to more than 100 microns. Filtering at such low specs definitely need some form of investment. But...
  7. whoislee

    Hydrate Formation

    Methanol has a higher solubility for water (the source of hydrates) compared to glycol. However as methanol has a low boiling point, it is not used in gas dehydration facility. Glycol is normally used here. Methanol is used more for temporary retardation of hydrate formation in pipelines...
  8. whoislee

    Treatment of Sludge from Tannery Efluent

    Why don't you consider installing a hydrocyclone to remove water? Water removed can be recycled back to your plant....savings. Depending on the waste characterisitics, there are plenty of ways to dewater tannery waste. However, if your management/boss decision is to install a belt filter...
  9. whoislee

    pretreatment for surface water membrane filtration

    Filtration without chemicals can be done. There are backwashable filters available in the market. Chemicals improve the efficiency of filtration. You requirments of filtration down to 2 microns using backwashable membranes is possible. If you need more info, contact me via email. There are 2...
  10. whoislee

    Extraction of Heavy Crude Oil from Reservoirs.

    For heavy oil recovery, the common application is water injection/flooding. Salt water is treated to remove impurities and oxygen. Then the treated salt water is injected into the oil well. Oil being lighter than salt water will floats on top. This water injection aims to increase the oil well...
  11. whoislee

    Mininum gas velocity for glycol injection

    Pardon me why is glycol injection required? Normally, natural gas is dehydrated at the production site (offshore or onshore) using TEG dehydration prior to sending it to downstream equipments for further processing. Methanol injection is done to protect the piping from the gas well to the gas...
  12. whoislee

    Water treatment chemicals affect pH

    Water treatment chemicals will affect the pH depending on the nature (type) of chemicals used. Normally for steam plants, anti-scalant, pH adjusters are used in pretreatment of the water but they are normally removed prior to steam generation. Please advise your water treatment configuration...
  13. whoislee

    Direct fired heater of TEG package

    How long have this heater been running? When was it last serviced? I would normally look at the flame nozzles to check if it is choked up with carbon soot. Increasing the air intake would means burning more fuel to get the same amount of heat energy --- inefficient. Try low burning rates to...
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    Estimating REACTION Rates for Relief Device

    It is not the safety factor that is important here. It is where the relief device is to be used. Consideration of the design limit of the equipment where this relief device is used is more important than the safety factor. Sizing a relief device is to prevent any dangerous event from occurring...
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    Monitoring quality of triethylene glycol

    Not only do you have to do an analysis of TEG but an analysis of the NG going to the dehydration tower is important as well. NG quality will indicate the amount of sulphur, salt content, plus other contaminants that will degrade TEG and the tower internal packings. For TEG, the following tests...

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