Crude Oil Desalting

Oil and gas upstream processing places special demands on heat exchangers. Such equipment must not only withstand corrosive and erosive media, two-phase mixtures, extreme pressures and temperatures, but also be extremely compact.

Challenge

Remove contaminants from crude, particularly water and salts, so that processing can begin.

Solution

Depending on the dehydration/desalting process used, either Tranter SUPERCHANGER Plate And Frame Heat Exchangers or SUPERMAX Shell And Plate Heat Exchangers can be used.

Tranter Plate Heat Exchanger for desalting, viscous crude heating and preheating of wet crude using dry crude.

Results

Outstanding resistance to scaling.
Good thermal efficiency.
Compact size and weight.
Good service accessibility.
Highly resistant to leakage over long duty cycles.

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