Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. Falcon07

    New Tower Inspection

    Hi, I’m currently reviewing the drawings of the new Absorber tower, i.e mechanical drawings and I want to make sure what we have in filed is matching what its in the drawings. As an example, one of the drawings highlighted that the slot opening for the vapor feed line should be 15 mm wide and...
  2. Falcon07

    Water in Distillation Tower

    Hello everyone, Can free water/traces of water cause flooding in the tower ? Tower which are operated at lower tempreature, such as 50 °C such as stripper towers or primary absorber tower. Thank you
  3. Falcon07

    Compressor Suction Pining

    Hello everyone, I have a case which I would like to share it with you, as part of our system upgrade we are planning to enlarge the suction and discharge piping of our WGC in order to minimize the pressure drop in the overall circuits. Doing so this should enable us to process more flow to the...
  4. Falcon07

    Debutanizer Reboiler Fouling

    We are working on resolving the issue abd I hope we will be bale to do the rigt choice. So far changing to co-current flow is the best option to go with, since others have tried it and it did work.
  5. Falcon07

    Debutanizer Reboiler Fouling

    we use Heavey oil from FCC fractinator tower as a heating meida, we don't use steam. The heavey oil temp is in the rnage of 350 °C to 380. We are thinking to re-tube the bundle to SS material which can stand higher temp.
  6. Falcon07

    Debutanizer Reboiler Fouling

    thank you all for your input. yes we are thinking to re-design the current exchanger. one of the proposed modification is to go for counter current to co-current operation, some people tried this and it did work. We do have isolation valves across the DeC4 reboilers, when ever we notice a...
  7. Falcon07

    Debutanizer Reboiler Fouling

    Hello Everybody: We are suffering from Reboiler fouling of our Debutanizer tower, sever coke on the shell side have been observed during our recent shutdown. I'm not sure if you guys have experienced similar problem in the past and how you mitigate the fouling mechanism in your system. Do you...
Back
Top