NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter

OIL

Field or refinery: A higher level of desalting performance

Five Proven Cameron Technologies
1Camerons Dual Polarity Electrostatic
Dehydrator:
The patented process applies a high
gradient, sustained DC field between
pairs of electrodes, while maintaining
a weaker AC field between the electrodes
and oil/water interface.
Results: Dramatic improvements over
conventional AC dehydration.

When Japanese refiners embarked upon a long-awaited expansion and upgrading program , they turned to the NATCO
Electro-Dynamic Desalter for state-of-the-art desalting to give them maximum performance and flexibility in meeting future
desalting needs. Over 60% of the desalters installed in Japanese refineries in the past ten years have been supplied by Cameron.

Camerons Process Systems combines

more than half a century of crude oil
dehydration and 30 years of field
and refinery desalting experience to
create a new leading edge crude oil
desalting process.
Camerons patented and proprietary
NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter
(EDD) was developed to replace the
conventional multi-staged desalting
system. The NATCO Electro-Dynamic
Desalter accomplishes this task
by providing multiple stages of
electrostatic mixing, coalescing and
settling in a single vessel allowing salt
removal and dehydration efficiencies
approaching 100%.
Five proven Cameron process
technologies were united and
conveniently combined to provide
the refining industry with the first
real electrostatic desalting design
innovation in over a decade.
The NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter
will provide two-staged desalting
performance without the excessive
capital investments or space
requirements common to these
systems.

EDD Composite Electrode Configuration

Load Responsive Controller
Power Unit

Oil
Outlet

2Camerons Composite Plate

Electrodes:

Developed to obtain a gradual electrical
field.
Results: Coalescence of the smallest
of water droplets, while preventing
sustained arcing from highly conductive
emulsions.
3Camerons Load Responsive
Controller:

Dilution
Water
Headers

Developed to regulate the flow of

electrical current and to provide selfadjusting electrical power levels for
optimization of electrostatic coalescence.

Composite
Electrodes

Oil/Water
Interface


Results: Optimum salt removal over a
wide range of feed stock materials.

Water
Outlet

Electrostatic Fields

4Camerons Counter Current Dilution

Water Process:
Developed to increase dilution water and
produced water contact.

Results: Reduced dilution water rates
while providing maximum desalting
efficiency.
5Camerons Electrostatic Mixing
Process:

High Voltage Gradient Dispersion

(+)

()

Incorporated to provide multistage

dilution water and brine mixing.

Results: Mixing efficiencies approaching
100% while enabling the user to reduce
dilution water volumes.

Increase operating efficiency while reducing operational expenses

The NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter, under a variety of conditions, can:
Retrofit your single-stage system to two-stage desalter
performance

Allow for greater operational flexibility by handling a wide

range of feed-stocks


Increase the levels of salt removal over any other single-vessel
process

Decrease chemical consumption


Double the capacity of two-stage systems

Reduce dilution water requirements


Reduce initial capital costs for new installations

Increase salt removal efficiency


Allow higher inlet water cuts during upset conditions while
maintaining specified effluent requirements

Require less space

Improve effluent water quality

Improve mixing efficiency

Provide improved dehydration capabilities

Whether you are upgrading or expanding an existing facility

or designing a new installation, Camerons new and unique
desalting technology could provide you with the means to
minimize installation costs and to substantially reduce operating
expenses.

Theoretical desalter performance

Multistage Efficiency Through a Single Vessel

A proven example of the EDD technology by integrating the
five technologies listed on the front page, the typical situation
below involves a flux of 100 BBL/Day and CSA with a crude rise
rate of 0.08 inches/second. The NATCO Electro-Dynamic Desalter
would retain crude oil within the grid section for 188 seconds and
provides nine 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 voltage at 16,000 volts.

Example:
Expected
improvement
in operations

Conditions:
20 PTB salt inlet
0.1% water in oil
40 API gravity

Results:
90% improvement
in salt removal

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