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Crude Desalter Level Problems and
the Nuclear Option
David Williams Senior Applications Engineer
VEGA [email protected]
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Separation vessels
Desalters
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What technologies are used to
measure interface level in
separation vessels?
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Separation Measurements
When the interface is “clean”,
several technologies can be
used
Guided Wave Radar
Displacers
Differential Pressure
Capacitance
Bubblers
Nuclear
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Most interface level technologies
measure a physical characteristic
of the process fluids and infer a
level.
Clean Interface
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Manual Sampling Systems
Resulting in Over / Under treatment of emulsion
Water too high into the grid
Oil under carry into the WWTP
Reality with Emulsions
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How effective are they really???
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When there are emulsions
present, which technologies can
be used?
Nuclear
Emulsion layers
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Cannot track both the bottom and
the top of the emulsion at the
same time.
Emulsion layers
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Crude Desalters
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− Fixed radiation based profile
system consisting of
− Flange mounted source holder
− Small Cesium sources in a drywell
− High sensitivity density gauges mounted on the outside of the vessel
MDA Technology Components
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Density Profile
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Density Profile
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Density Profile
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Nuclear measurement technologies can measure the emulsion.
Nuclear technology tends to have a higher reliability.
Lower Lifetime cost of ownership
Conclusion
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