Omsk refinery reduces air emissions
Published by Nicholas Woodroof,
Editor
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
With an installed capacity of 22.23 million tpy of oil, the Omsk Oil Refinery is one of Russia’s leading oil refineries. The BELCO wet scrubbing technology was installed at Omsk during a fluidised catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) revamp and efficiently removes process impurities from the flue gas emitted by the FCCU thus reducing air emissions well below detection limits.
The introduction of the BELCO wet scrubbing technology was an important part of a large-scale modernisation project that Gazpromneft began at the Omsk refinery in 2008. One of the aims of the project was to systematically introduce technologies that reduce the refinery’s environmental impact. This included treating the FCCU flue gases with the BELCO scrubber to intensely clean them of atmospheric pollution. The BELCO technology design allowed the Omsk Oil Refinery also to solve a challenging installation and plot space problem for the gas cleaning section. Thanks to the scrubber design, which is contained in a single upflow tower, the refinery was able to simply dismantle a pre-existing 70 m tall, brick flue stack and install the scrubber on the previous chimney foundations. This was key for the site as the plot space for the unit at the refinery is very tight.
The BELCO scrubber uses a design consisting of a water spray tower equipped with a filtering module and droplet separators. Larger particulate and SO2 are removed in the spray tower, and fine particulate is removed in the filtering module section, so that only cleaned flue gas leaves the tower. The process is fully automated, and the new custom-designed scrubber system comes with built-in control analysers that allow for constant online monitoring.
“For many of our customers, environmental stewardship is a priority,” said Yves Herssens, EMEA Business Development Manager. “They want to limit emissions but need efficient systems that enable them to achieve their goal reliably, consistently and quickly. The BELCO wet scrubber is an extremely robust technology that will allow the Omsk Oil Refinery to achieve its goal of reducing air emissions in line with Russia’s “Project Ecology” with minimum maintenance over the next few decades. It is part of the emissions control solutions that we offer the refining industry which also include DynaWave® wet scrubbing technology, STRATCO® alkylation technology and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing technology.”
“For the Omsk Oil Refinery, ecology is an absolute priority. The company systematically introduces technologies that reduce the impact on the environment. The Omsk Refinery was one of the first refineries in Russia to use this state-of-the-art fluid catalytic cracking regenerator flue gas cleaning technology. This is an exclusively environmental protection project that supports our high standards of environmental safety,” said Oleg Belyavsky, General Director of the Omsk Refinery.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/the-environment/01102020/omsk-refinery-reduces-air-emissions/
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