Oil, gas and refineries
Mist elimination, mass transfer and climate control for efficient operations
Separating and extracting liquids and gases, and removing moisture and contaminants, are vital to the oil, gas, and refineries industries. Munters provides energy-efficient mist elimination, mass transfer and dehumidification systems to improve operating efficiencies and clean processing and waste streams.
Applications in oil, gas, and refineries
Raise product quality for oil, gas, and petroleum
Mist eliminators are the guards of your process. In all stages of production, transportation, refining, and gas processing, mist eliminators separate liquids from gas streams and thereby contribute to the correct mass and heat balance of the process.
Advantages:
- Improved product quality
- Recover valuable product
- Protection of downstream components
- Less corrosion in piping and compressor stations
- Lower maintenance costs
Optimize the performance of mass transfer systems
Used for fractionation, absorption, and extraction, Munters mass transfer products optimize pressure drop versus output, using the least amount of energy possible. We offer in-house capabilities to design, engineer, manufacture, and supply mass transfer products, including:
Advantages:
- Deep application knowledge
- Inhouse design
- Optimized pressure versus output
- Energy efficiency
- Reduced carbon footprint
Perfect climate for equipment on board offshore platforms
Condensation is a constant challenge in the oil, gas, and refinery industries, especially in offshore facilities such as floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels and other locations with naturally high humidity.
Advantages:
- Efficient preservation of redundant gas compressor stations
- Reliable preservation and storage of critical objects, such as gas and oil valves, as well as essential emergency equipment and components
- Preservation of mechanical spaces and equipment on board FPSOs and other offshore platforms that use explosion-proof equipment
- Gas- and oil-pipeline drying following water-pressure testing
- Cost-effective protection of electronic control units
Extend the lifespan of the facility
Munters mist eliminators help remove liquid carryover, condensed liquids, and contaminants from the process chain, in the form of water and produced solids, minerals, metals, and sulfur.
Advantages:
- Extend the service life of your plant
- Lower maintenance costs
- Reduce emissions
Prevent downtime
High humidity can lead to a dramatic drop in the electrical resistance of insulating material. This can cause current to flow across the surfaces of monitoring equipment, as well as through the air. The condensation that forms when humidity levels increase can cause operational disturbances due to malfunctioning electronic equipment, which can cause unplanned stops. Shutting down oil, gas, and refinery facilities to address these problems is costly.
Advantages:
- Fewer electrical problems
- Less downtime
- Lower maintenance costs
Pollution control
Air pollution is a persistent issue in the oil, gas, and refinery industries, from the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the contamination of sensitive materials in the manufacturing process. Munters offers solutions to help reduce both.
Advantages:
- Comply with legislation and avoid sanctions
- Prevent corrosion on plants and buildings
- Enhance your sustainability credentials
What our solutions can help you to achieve
Raise product quality for oil, gas, and petroleum
Mist eliminators are the guards of your process. In all stages of production, transportation, refining, and gas processing, mist eliminators separate liquids from gas streams and thereby contribute to the correct mass and heat balance of the process.
Advantages:
- Improved product quality
- Recover valuable product
- Protection of downstream components
- Less corrosion in piping and compressor stations
- Lower maintenance costs
Prevent downtime
High humidity can lead to a dramatic drop in the electrical resistance of insulating material. This can cause current to flow across the surfaces of monitoring equipment, as well as through the air. The condensation that forms when humidity levels increase can cause operational disturbances due to malfunctioning electronic equipment, which can cause unplanned stops. Shutting down oil, gas, and refinery facilities to address these problems is costly.
Advantages:
- Fewer electrical problems
- Less downtime
- Lower maintenance costs
Pollution control
Air pollution is a persistent issue in the oil, gas, and refinery industries, from the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the contamination of sensitive materials in the manufacturing process. Munters offers solutions to help reduce both.
Advantages:
- Comply with legislation and avoid sanctions
- Prevent corrosion on plants and buildings
- Enhance your sustainability credentials
Raise process efficiency
Condensed liquids decrease process efficiency. However, properly designed mist eliminators enable plant designers to apply higher gas velocities and to cope with expected and unexpected process conditions, such as high turndown factors, thereby minimizing process plant costs and improving product separation.
Performing these tasks dependably involves choosing the right mist elimination configuration for the application, and making sure it suits the processing equipment, the location, and the loading. Selecting the right mist elimination component also requires choosing an eliminator vane that matches the characteristics of the gas flow. This, in turn, requires a deep understanding of the oil and gas processing involved, as well as the physics of the mist eliminator itself.
Contact Munters to enquire about our wide range of mist eliminator solutions, designed to raise process efficiency in the oil, gas, and refinery industries.
Advantages:
- Predictable performance and high efficiency, even under heavy liquid loading
- Using a vane-type mist eliminator allows the process to be run at higher velocities, with smaller apparatus diameters
- Protection of downstream components
Enhanced energy efficiency of the facility
Munters mist eliminators save energy during operation due to very low pressure loss and higher separation efficiency. They also help save energy in subsequent processes and deliver highly efficient and predictable performance, even under heavy liquid loading.
Munters dehumidifiers track actual conditions in real time, measuring humidity and temperature to ensure the unit only runs when the risk of condensation is imminent, providing an energy-efficient, floating dew-point control.
Contact Munters to enquire about our range of solutions designed to improve the energy efficiency in your facility.
Advantages:
- High droplet and moisture removal rates, with reduced energy costs
- Constant duty-cycle operation
- Greater durability and longer life cycle, due to sturdy construction and design
- More consistent performance, even in the most demanding environments
Products - Oil, gas and refineries
“We chose evaporative cooling because of its ease of retrofit installation, low operating cost and low inlet pressure drop. It was also the right economic choice for us and the unit was easy to install.”
Dave Stamp, Facility Engineer