Does your plant experience foaming, or high corrosion rates? Or, perhaps your rich/lean exchanger requires frequent cleaning. Have production rates needed to be cut?

Fluid Clarification has solved these and other challenges with high-efficiency separations systems and our unequalled technical support. Our solutions have resulted in successful installations throughout Canada and around the world.

UltiSep removes solids and liquids in the incoming gas to eliminate foaming and reduce corrosion rates. Compax effectively separates solids generated within the amine system thereby protecting the rich/lean exchanger, piping, and towers from fouling while improving plant operational stability and production rates.

Whether optimizing an existing plant or designing separations equipment for a new facility, our engineering staff, experienced Scientific and Analytical Support personnel, and broad installation base each play a part in ensuring that you get the right solution for your separations challenge.

Effective contaminant removal is critically important to ensure high-quality boiler feedwater, and to maximize boiler blow down water recovery.

Fluid Clarification has a broad range of filtration options, including self-cleaning. All are capable of reliably removing solids to very fine levels, with low operating costs. We even have solutions for high solids loading applications.

Caustic treating is used on hydrocarbon streams to extract or sweeten mercaptans. One result of caustic treating is the formation of a very stable emulsion that cannot be separated effectively from the hydrocarbon with conventional equipment. The carried-over caustic leads to off-spec hydrocarbon products due to downstream haze or sodium levels.

Pentair Porous Media’s LiquiSep technology effectively separates even tight emulsions with low interfacial tension liquids, significantly reducing caustic carryover, and allowing hydrocarbon product streams to meet specification.

Disposing of water into formations can be challenging due to the hydrocarbon and solid contaminants in the water and the permeability of the formation. Rising injectivity pressures are one sure sign of formation fouling. This can lead to well stimulation, such as acidizing, but over time even these techniques can have decreasing effectiveness, ultimately leading to the need for new wells.

Fluid Clarification’s technologies effectively separate solids and hydrocarbon from disposal water streams to ensure adequate formation protection.

The challenge presented by reusing Frac Flowback water is in removing the solids and the hydrocarbon. Fluid Clarification has a range of solutions, from simple bag filtration to self-cleaning systems that will remove hydrocarbon and solids to less than 1 ppm.

Our complete range of technologies includes solids removal only or removal of solids and hydrocarbon.

Fuel gas has many sources, some of which contain aerosols such as heavier hydrocarbons, entrained water or solids, which contribute to a host of potential issues.

The presence of liquid aerosols can be due to condensation, lube oil from upstream compression, chemical addition such as corrosion inhibitors, and a wide range of other sources. The impact can vary, but includes flame impingement at burner tips, freeze-ups of fuel to field and plant compressors, and fouling of control devices.

These solids and liquid aerosols are so fine that they penetrate conventional separation devices. Pentair Porous Media’s proven UltiSep technology separates these fine contaminants, eliminating downstream issues.

Hydrotreating uses fixed bed catalytic reactors to reduce sulphur, nitrogen and aromatics, as well as other functions. The hydrocarbon feed often contains contaminants that must be removed to maximize catalyst life.

Fluid Clarification offers a range of technologies that eliminate fouling of the catalyst bed by particles, thereby extending bed life until activity-based changeout is required. Whether seeking self-cleaning, or high performance disposable filtration, we have a cost effective solution.

Your plant may experience foaming in the contactor or regenerator, resulting in plant instability and lost production. Or, perhaps Molesieve bed life is short due to contamination.

Fluid Clarification has solved these and other challenges with high-efficiency separations systems, and our unmatched technical support draws from over 25 years of experience. We have helped sites around the world eliminate foaming in amine systems and dramatically extend Molesieve bed life with Pentair Porous Media’s high performance UltiSep.

Fluid Clarification offers industry-leading, high-performance solutions for a variety of NGL applications at the fractionation plant and for the storage of NGL.

NGL feeds can contain solids and water or brine, all of which can be separated effectively by Compax (solids) and LiquiSep (water/brine). Additionally, the new Polarex technology replaces existing amine contactors in amine sweetening facilities at about one third the installation cost, with lower operating costs as well.

For NGL storage applications, the removal of solids and water/brine is critical and is accomplished with the Compax and LiquiSep technologies.

Produced water contains varying amounts of hydrocarbon and solid contaminants. Are you seeing rising injectivity pressures or needing to acidize your wells?

Hydrocarbon and solids foul formations, a challenge that increases as the formation permeability decreases. Rising injectivity pressures are one sure sign of formation fouling. This can lead to well stimulation, such as acidizing, but over time even these techniques can have decreasing effectiveness, ultimately leading to the need for new wells.

Fluid Clarification’s technologies effectively separate solids and hydrocarbon from disposal water streams to ensure adequate formation protection.

Has the gas transmission company threatened shut-in of your sales gas? Are you having trouble shooting dewpoints? Fluid Clarification has solutions.

Liquid aerosols, the typical Sales Gas contaminant, tend to be very fine and pass through conventional separation equipment, resulting in carryover to downstream piping networks and processes. Pentair Porous Media’s UltiSep technology is proven the world over for superior aerosol separation. Whether upgrading existing underperforming technologies, or for new installations, the UltiSep is your assurance of effective, reliable separation.

From tens of thousands of installations worldwide, we have chosen a small sampling of typical applications. Please contact our Filtration Experts® to discuss the specifics of your application.

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