Electro-Dynamic® Desalter

Field or Refinery: A Higher level of Desalting Performance

The Five Steps To
Successful Desalting:

1 NATCO’s Dual Polarity Electrostatic

When Japanese refiners embarked upon a long-awaited program of expansion and up-grading they turned to
NATCO EDD for state-of-the-art desalting to give them maximum performance and flexibility in meeting future
needs. Over 60% of the desalters installed in Japanese refineries in the past ten years have been supplied by NATCO
NATCO combines its more than half a
EDD COMPOSITE ELECTRODE CONFIGURATION
century of crude oil dehydration – and 30
LOAD
years of field and refinery desalting RESPONSIVE
CONTROLLER
experience – to create a new leading
edge crude oil desalting process. DILUTION
WATER
HEADERS
The new process, NATCO’s patented and COMPOSITE
proprietary Electro-Dynamic® Desalter was ELECTRODES
Dehydrator:
The patented process applies a high
gradient, sustained DC field between
pairs of electrodes, while maintaining
an AC field between the electrodes
and oil/water interface.
Results: Dramatic improvements
over AC dehydration.
2 NATCO’s Composite Plate
Electrodes:
OIL Developed to obtain a degrading
OUTLET
electrical field.
Results: Coalescence of the smallest
of water particles, while eliminating
sustained arcing due to highly
conductive emulsions.

developed to replace the conventional

3 NATCO’s Load Responsive
mechanical mixing, multi-vessel, staged EMULSION
SPREADER Controller:
system. The Electro-Dynamic® Desalter
Developed to regulate the flow of
accomplishes this task by providing OIL/WATER WATER
INTERFACE OUTLET electrical current and toprovide self-
multiple phases of electrostatic mixing,
adjusting electrical power levels for
coalescing, and settling in a single vessel
optimization of electrostatic
allowing salt and dehydration efficiencies
ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS coalescence.
to approach 100%.
Results: Optimum salt removal over
a wide range of feed stock materials.
Five proven NATCO process technologies
were united and conventionally structured
4 NATCO’s Counter Flow Dilution
to provide the refining industry with the
Water Process:
first real electrostatic desalting design
Developed to increase dilution
innovation in over a decade!
water/produced water and
particulate contact.
NATCO’s Electro-Dynamic® Desalter will
Results: Reduced dilution water rates
provide two-staged desalting efficiencies
while providing maximum extraction
without the excessive capital investments
efficiency.
or space requirements most common to
these systems. HIGH VOLTAGE GRADIENT DISPERSION
5 NATCO’s Electrostatic Mixing
Process:
Whether you are upgrading or expanding
Incorporated to provide multistage
an existing facility or constructing a new
contact.
installation, NATCO’s new and unique
Results: Mixing efficiencies
desalting technology could provide you
approaching 100% while enabling
with the means to minimize installation
the user to reduce emulsion chemical
costs and to substantially reduce
consumption.
operating expenses.

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 Electro-Dynamic® Desalter

Increase Operating Efficiency While Reducing Operational Expenses

The Electro-Dynamic® Desalter, under a variety of conditions, can:

• Retrofit to upgrade your single-stage system to two-stage • Improve effluent water quality.
performance. • Decrease chemical consumption.
• Increase the levels of salt removal over any other single- • Improve mixing efficiency.
vessel process.
• Reduce dilution water requirements to as low as 1.5 percent
• Double the capacity of two-stage systems. of volumetric feedstock rate.
• Reduce initial capital costs for new installations. • Increase salt removal efficiency.
• Allow higher inlet water cuts during upset conditions while • Require less space.
maintaining specified effluent requirements.
• Provide improved dehydration capabilities.
• Allow for greater operational flexibility by handling a wide
range of feed-stocks. • Individual operation conditions dictate actual performance levels

Multi-Stage Efficiency through a

Single Vessel – with NATCO
Electro-Dynamic® Desalter
A proven example of what takes place –
by integrating the five principles listed on
the front page, the typical situation below
involves a flow rate at 100 BBL/Day/F2
with a crude rise rate of 0.08 inches/
second. The Electro-Dynamic® Desalter
would retain crude oil within the grid
section for 188 seconds and provide 9
extraction cycles of mixing/coalescing/
settling at a rate of 21 seconds per cycle.
The mixing phase shown is at 35,000
volts. The coalescence phase is shown as
the degrading field responds to the
voltage reduction. The settling phase is
shown with the power at 16,000 volts.

For more information on NATCO Electro Dynamic or

Theoretical Desalter Performance other NATCO Group products contact:

NATCO Group Head Office

Houston, USA
Tel: +(1) 713 683 9292
Email: sales@natco-us.com
NATCO Canada
Calgary, Canada
Tel: +(1) 403 236 1850
Email: sales@natco.ab.ca
NATCO Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +(81) 33288 1901
Email: natco1@natcojapan.com
Axsia Group
Gloucester, England
Tel: +(44) 1452 833800
Email: asbl@Axsia.com
Axsia Howmar
Camberley, England
Example: Conditions: Results: Tel: +(44) 1276 681101
Expected improvement in 20 PTB salt inlet 0.1% 90% improvement in salt Email: ahl@Axsia.com
operations water in oil 40º API gravity removal
www.natcogroup.com

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