MisterMesh ®

high-capacity mesh
pad mist eliminators
 The pad capacity limitation
ROPERLY SELECTED, conventional knitted
P mesh pads are ideal in most horizontal mist
eliminator applications. However, rising gas
impedes drainage of captured liquid.
At moderate gas velocities and
liquid loads, a thin layer of
The MisterMesh® Solution
O OVERCOME, the limitation above, ACS
T offers the MisterMesh ® pad. In this
unique design, tightly rolled mesh cylinders
are attached to the underside of a
conventional pad. There, the
“Coanda” effect steers
clinging liquid to the
rolls like water trickling
down your arm from
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liquid forms at the bottom of the pad. If velocity
or loading increases further, the liquid zone grows
thicker, eventually filling the entire pad. Fi-
nally, liquid becomes re-entrained
as large droplets are carried
over from the pad.
a leaky garden hose. Surface tension allows streams
falling through the rolls to draw liquid from drainage
zones above. The broad intervals between rolls
remain relatively clear of liquid, and there
vapor rises easily. This channeling
and facilitation of drainage yields
higher capacity and efficiency
and lower pressure drop.
 A MisterMesh® pad
36 feet in diameter for
service in a low vacuum tower
in a large US Gulf Coast refinery

More production, less pressure drop

Greater throughput A typical MisterMesh® pad can handle
10% to 40% more flow than a conventional mesh pad in the
same service.

Higher liquid loads Similarly, at a given gas velocity a

MisterMesh® pad can successfully remove a greater load of
entrained liquid than a conventional pad.

Improved separation efficiency By operating at higher

velocities, MisterMesh® pads increase the percentage of fine
droplets captured by striking wires rather than flowing around
them.

Less than half the pressure drop For a given load of

gas and mist, pressure drop can be cut to less than half by using
a MisterMesh® pad, in addition to efficiency improvement.
ACS Style 8P mesh,
High performance for micron-size fog “Co-knit” mesh air and water,
containing fine fibers (front cover and opposite page) is ideally ambient conditions.

suited for small droplet separation but is highly susceptible to

flooding. The enhanced drainage of a MisterMesh® pad makes ,
co-knit mesh much more widely applicable.

Partial list of MisterMesh® Applications

Acid fume scrubber
Acrylonitrile quench column
Acrylate monomer knockout
Ammonia and SO2 scrubber
Ammonium sulfate knockout
Caustic evaporator
Crude oil distillation
Fluidized catalytic cracker feed
Demethanizer
Evaporator
Flue gas scrubber
Fume scrubber
Glycol dehydrator
Hydrochloric acid scrubber
Hydrogen compressor KO
Hydrogen peroxide knockout
Hyposulfite reactor
Isobutane reboiler
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Lubricating oil knockout
Natural gas compressor KO
Natural gas liquids
Nuclear air/water separator
Pentachlorophenol scrubber
Petroleum separator
Potassium carbonate separator
Raffinate tower
Reflux drum
Sour gas
Steam drum knockout
Steam separator
Sulfur dioxide scrubber
Sulfuric acid scrubber
Sulfuric acid mist
Tail gas scrubber
Urea prill tower
Vacuum tower
 Reduce new Debottleneck
vessel size processes
Cross- Relative Cross-Section Inside
Section Area & Area Diameter
Area Weight

491 ft2 1.00

Original
Separator 39 ft2 7 feet

Conventional
Replacement 64 ft2 9 feet
2
416 ft 0.85

MisterMesh®
& Plate-Pak™ 39 ft2 7 feet
Retrofit

Conditions
317,000 lbs/hr ethylene,
347 ft2 0.70 ethane and hydrogen
Conditions with hydrocarbon mist,
1.7 million lbs/hr 160 psia, 92˚F
23.3 psia
Plate-Pak™ vane
-29.2˚F
mist eliminator, Mist Removal
Mist Removal
suitable for larger 99% of all droplets
mist droplets and 99.8 % of all
higher gas velocities droplets 10 10 microns & larger
microns & larger

HE SIMPLEST and most common design for this vapor-

T liquid separator (Option A) uses a conventional horizontal
monofilament pad installed in a vessel with a 25-foot inside
diameter.
A high-capacity MisterMesh® pad (Option B) processes
the same throughput as the conventional pad, using less
area. Thus, a 23-foot-ID vessel with 15% less area and 15%
lower cost is sufficient.
A more advanced ACS design (Option C) uses a
MisterMesh® pad at even higher velocities to agglomerate fine
mist. Captured liquid is blown upward as large droplets, which
are trapped by a Plate-Pak™ vane mist eliminator unit (ideally
suited to higher velocities and larger droplets). This 21-foot-ID
vessel is 30% smaller in size and cost than Option A.
A DEBOTTLENECKING STUDY in an ethylene plant revealed
that the capacity of the charge compressor discharge drum
needed to be increased by 64% to avoid carryover of mist at the
higher production level. Equipped with a conventional mesh pad,
the existing drum had an inside diameter of seven feet. Relieving
this bottleneck with a mesh pad of the same kind would require
a new vessel with 9-foot ID.
Instead, the conventional pad in the seven-foot separator
was replaced with a high-capacity MisterMesh® pad followed by
a Plate-Pak™ stage. As in the case at left, the superior draining
characteristics of the MisterMesh® pad enable it to cope with
the extra load of captured liquid draining through it from the
Plate-Pak™ unit.

ACS Industries, LP
Separations & Mass-Transfer Products
14211 Industry Street • Houston, Texas 77053
Telephone: (713) 434-0934 or (800) 231-0077
Fax: (713) 433-6201 • Email: separations@acsind.com
Website: www.acsseparations.com
Plate-Pak™ is a trademark and MisterMesh® is a registered trademark of ACS Industries, LP or its affiliates. The information contained in this bulletin is believed to be
accurate and reliable but is not to be construed as implying any warranty or guarantee of performance.
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