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Compressor Station Relies on Twist-LOK™ to Solve Filtration Challenge And Protect Downstream Equipment

2019-08-16

JONELL SYSTEM RECOMMENDS THE RIGHT FILTRATION TECHNOLOGY TO PROTECT DOWNSTREAM EQUIPMENT AND IMPROVE PROCESS UPTIME.

Midstream services are an integral part of transporting natural gas, crude oil, condensate, and NGL commodities across the United States. With expansive gathering, processing, fractionation, transportation and logistics, pipelines are strategically placed.

Our customer operates approximately 11,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines, 20 processing plants with 4.8 billion cubic feet of net processing capacity and seven fractionators with 260,000 barrels per day of net fractionation capacity.

THE CHALLENGE

A Compressor Station faced carryover which repeatedly collapsed the downstream amine coalescer filters which resulted in frequent change-outs, increased downtime and higher costs. Our challenge was to create a media recipe that would eliminate contaminants and protect sophisticated downstream equipment. Due to the corrosive nature of the feed within this process, structural components of the filters would also be tested.

THE SOLUTION

Jonell Systems used extensive laboratory testing to determine the exact media layers required and relied on years of design experience to construct a solution. By changing the core to stainless steel, the concern for corrosion was substantially diminished.

We proposed the two-stage Twist- LOKTM with multi-layered media to filter 0.2 – 0.3 microns for the first stage of filtration and 0.3-micron depth media for the second stage. This improved operations by enhancing the quality of contaminant filtration and protecting downstream equipment.

THE RESULTS

By installing Twist-LOKTM filters, the station reduced the frequency of filter change-outs from every month to every five to six months which saved maintenance time and costs and improved the overall filtration process. This helped to clean the downstream process and maintain the efficiency of the Amine coalescer.

Twist-LOKTM provided a superior filtration process and helped make a substantial improvement.

If you are experiencing issues with frequent change-outs, are unable to measure differential pressure or would like to further optimize your filtration process, talk to us.

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