Filtration in Hydrotreating
Filtration in Hydrotreating
Filtration in Hydrotreating
Applications
in Hydrotreating
Hydrotreating is an essential refinery process in crude distillation with The most common filtration problems include solid and liquid
the goal of removing feed contaminants from downstream processes, contaminants in the fluid and gas streams originating from upstream
as well as converting low-value gas oils into valuable products that equipment, storage tanks and piping. These contaminants will foul the
meet stringent clean fuels specifications. Hydrotreaters remove sulfur reactor beds resulting in higher differential pressure that leads to
and other impurities from feedstock through catalytic conversion in a reduction in recycle hydrogen compressor performance. This will
hydrogen-rich environment over fixed catalyst beds at high cause refiners to reduce gas oil throughput in order to maintain the
temperatures and pressures. proper hydrogen to gas oil ratio resulting in direct revenue losses.
Contamination fouling will also cause catalyst deactivation (coking)
Types of Hydrotreating requiring refiners to raise temperatures in the reactor to compensate.
• Gasoline Hydrotreating If elevated long enough, deactivation occurs making it difficult to
Removes sulfur from gasoline blending components and reduces the maintain on-spec product leading to unplanned shutdowns to
olefins and aromatics content by saturating the double bonds with replaced fouled catalyst. In addition, contamination in hydrotreater
hydrogen. feed streams will cause problems in heat exchangers and hydrogen
compressors leading to costly repairs and downtime.
• Jet Fuel Hydrotreating
Improves the burning characteristics of jet fuel by increasing the
smoke point at which unburned hydrocarbons are released as smoke.
• Distillates Hydrotreating
Distillates used for diesel fuel are hydrotreated to reduce sulfur content
to meet ultra-low level sulfur mandates. In addition, hydrotreating
cracked light oils reduces the amount of aromatics compounds and
raises the octane levels.
• Cat Feed and Reformer Feed Hydrotreating
Cat reformer feeds are almost always hydrotreated prior to entering the
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• Additional Hydroteating Processes
Pyrolysis Gas, Kerosene, Residual Fuels, etc.
1 Liquid/Liquid
Coalescer
4
Liquid/Liquid
Liquid Coalescer
Jonell
Particle Feed/Effluent Jonell LiquiPleatTM PhasePURTM
Hydrotreater Filter Exchanger HF Series or Phase-LOKTM Series
Feed "High Flow" Liquid/Liquid
Jonell PhasePURTM or 2 Liquid Elements Coalescing Elements
Phase-LOKTM Series
Liquid/Liquid Steam 3
Coalescing Elements Stripper
Liquid
Particle
Filter
1 LiquiPleatTM HF Series (High Flow) Hydrotreater feed filtration removes Prevents unscheduled reactor downtime;
filter elements solid contaminants such as scale, reduced fouling in heat exchangers extending
rust, and solid particles time between maintenance and shutdowns;
fewer catalyst change-outs
2 PhasePUR™ or Phase-LOK™ Removal of water from hydrotreater Prevents unscheduled reactor downtime,
Series coalescing elements feedstock heat exchanger fouling, and extends
catalyst bed life
4 PhasePUR™ or Phase-LOK™ Water removal from stabilized fuel Maintains liquid fuel specifications,
Series coalescing elements protects downstream equipment,
and reduces maintenance costs
5 Micro-LOK ™ or Micro-DEP™ Removal of liquids and solids Efficient hydrogen compressor operation
Series coalescing elements from recycle hydrogen and significantly reduced maintenance costs
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