Have You Ever Had A Slug Of Hydrocarbon Contaminate Your Amine?

A Gulf Coast refinery’s amine system was contaminated with up to 3% hydrocarbon. The contamination consisted of hydrocarbon from upstream process units and particulate. The hydrocarbon consisted of LCO and heavy diesel. The current system consisted of an undersized flash tank and a 20% slipstream filtration. The current system could not remove the contaminants so the refinery had to decommission the amine and replace it with new fresh amine.

The refinery contacted Pentair to see if there was a solution to remove both the solid and hydrocarbon contaminants that had contaminated the amine. Pentair provides a Hydrocarbon Recovery Technology (HRT®) system that removes both solids and recovers hydrocarbon from aqueous process streams.