The Challenge
The industrial world is searching for improved means to treat the oil/water dispersions often found in refinery, oil & gas, chemical, power generation, pulp & paper, primary metals, and mining industries. Highly contaminated oil/water dispersions can involve process feeds, by-products, or valuable liquid commodity products, requiring them to be “upgraded” before they can be sold. These fluids, if left untreated, can negatively impact production, create unnecessary wastes, lead to longer-term performance consequences, disappoint customers, and erode your company’s profits.
The Solution
Pall Corporation has introduced new fluid separation technology designed to treat oil/water dispersions. The ground-breaking Lucid™ separator has the ability to effectively remove gross levels of contaminant water or aqueous fluid in droplet form from liquid phase hydrocarbons and/or conversely, remove contaminant hydrocarbons from water or aqueous solutions.
This new separation technology offers a simple “easy to install” solution in a compact geometry that is self-cleaning, requires no auxiliary utilities, electrostatics, controls, or chemical additives to function. The hardware has no moving parts, is compatible with a broad range of fluids, and is resistant to even the most erosive solids. The totally enclosed separation eliminates the chance of foul odors or hazards to operators.
A proprietary internal “separator” geometry promotes low-velocity coalescing or enlargement, with discharge path for continuous separation of discontinuous phase droplets in the fluid. Fine-sized suspended solids are disengaged from the flow and discharged along with the discontinuous phase liquid material.
Description
- Separates liquids from liquids and solids from liquids
- Treats difficult aqueous and hydrocarbon-based fluids with up to 10% dispersed liquid phase
- Processes fluids with up to 1% solids
- Can be sized for particle removal sizes ranging from 20 to 100 microns
- Non-fouling - no replacement cartridges required
- Typically operates in efficiency ranges between a decanter and a coalescer
- Contains no moving parts
- Requires no electricity
- Enables a reduction in chemical additives in some cases
- Features all-metal or all-plastic construction – ideal for aggressive chemical compatibility and high-temperature service
Benefits
- Improved Fluid Quality and Value: Reliable separation of hydrocarbon – water mixtures will allow for recovery of valuable products and prevention of fouling and corrosion of downstream process equipment.
- Low-Cost Liquid and Solids Removal: The Lucid separator uses permanent separation internal parts that avoid costly replacements of disposable cartridges. This allows for a long life and reliable separation efficiency at a low overall cost of contaminant removal.
- High-Performance Design Results in Smaller Assembly Size: The Lucid separator’s proprietary internal parts and compact design promotes improved separation in a small economic assembly size.
- Lower Disposal and Maintenance Costs: The Lucid separator does not require any change out of disposable cartridges and contains no moving parts or need for electricity. As a result the operating costs and maintenance costs are greatly reduced compared to other separation technologies.
- No Fugitive Emissions: The enclosed design prevents any vapor leaks, reducing environmental non compliance and improving safety.
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