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This is a revised proposal made to Mr. Marwan El Newehy, Executive Manager, Arabian
Company for Services (ACS), 12 Elmurshedy Towers, Bavaria City Ring Road Katameya,
Cairo, Egypt (Tel: +201003222332) for a Used lubricating Oil system that can process 1000 lit/hr
of Used lubricating oil as feed. The proposed plant is complete with all processing equipment that
will recover one cut of lube (distillate) after separating the water, light fuel and asphalt extender in
the Short path distillation system. The proposal includes a regenerative media based lube polishing
system that will polish the distilled base lubes to produce a stable base lube product that will not
darken on keeping.
The proposal also includes the utility packages of Thermic fluid heater, Evaporative cooling tower
and Instrument air compressor. The plant will be fully automated and controlled through a control
computer (PLC) which is included in the scope of PESCO BEAM. Environment mitigation to handle
the VOC’s from the process is part of the system proposed. However, no system to handle the
recovered water is included as part of the scope quoted for.
PESCO BEAM is an international organization having its primary offices in Roanoke, Virginia, USA
and Chennai, India. The plant that is proposed is performance guaranteed and the guarantee is
based on our experience of having supplied more number of operating used oil re-refineries, world-
wide, than any other company. The system offered is the result of this global experience.
All information and details given in this proposal are confidential and should not be copied or
shared with anyone without the express permission of PESCO BEAM except for the purpose of
ordering the system with PESCO BEAM.
PESCO BEAM will be pleased to answer any questions on this proposal and thank ACS, Egypt for
the opportunity to participate in this project.
A.Subramaniam
Managing Director & Co-Founder.
BASIS
PROCESSING CAPACITY:
The plant is designed and sized to process 1000 lit per hour of used lube oil feed on a continuous
basis (8000 hrs per year).
FEED CHARACTERISTICS:
The output specifications are based on a typical feed which will be Used motor oil and having
mostly about 5% water. The product recovery percentage given in this proposal is however based
on an average 5% water and calculated on dry basis (after removal of 5% of water) so that the
percentage of water in feed, will not influence the recovery data.
PRODUCTS:
From a typical feed as specified above, the plant will produce the following on dry basis:
Note: The product rate and characteristics are completely dependent on the feed properties. Thus
if the feed is predominantly long chain hydrocarbons or lube oil of heavier grade, such will be the
distillate.
Sulfur 0.89%
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Based on a typical feed, typical product data is as follows:
*These data may be used as guiding values and are not performance guarantees. Depends on
feed properties. Performance guarantee figures are given later in this proposal as an annexure.
Metals Ppm
Lead 10-120,000
Calcium 6000-38000
Barium 20-16000
Zinc 6000-15000
Iron 100-6000
Phosphorus 1100-6000
Magnesium 350-5000
Copper 10-1200
The feed pump will pump the used lube oil feed stream into the forced circulation evaporator loop.
In this loop the water, aromatics and diesel / kero fractions will evaporate. These fractions will exit
the loop, condense in the condenser, and drop into the decanting light ends receiver circuit. The
lights which will be a mixture of naphtha, kero and diesel fractions, and recovered water will be
pumped to storage via a differential density level controlled arrangement.
The dirty de-watered feed will be pumped into the wiped film evaporator. The medium-and long
chain hydrocarbons will vaporize and will exit through a condenser to a product receiver and will be
pumped to storage. The residual, which contains the solids and tars (asphalt extender), flows by
gravity out of the evaporator to a pump, from where it will be pumped to its storage.
A vacuum skid consisting of vacuum pumps and boosters and several accessories will supply
vacuum as required, to the different stages of the process.
The source of process heat will be thermic fluid heater, which will be supplied by PESCO BEAM.
Cooling water at the required temperature and flow will be supplied using a Cooling tower, also
part of PESCO BEAM’s scope of supply.
Compressed Instrument grade @ 20 cfm at 7 bar pressure will be required for operating the
pneumatic instruments of the system and will be supplied by PESCO BEAM.
The plant offered is complete with a thermal oxidation system for preparing the VOC emissions
from the process to be fed to the heater box of the thermic fluid heater for complete combustion
before being exhausted to the stack.
The system will be supplied fully assembled on several painted carbon steel skids with all hot
surfaces insulated. The skids will be prewired and piped complete with the instruments and
controls with flanged terminal connections that will be ready to be hooked to field piping. The plant
will be PLC controlled for automatic operation through a control computer. All the electrical and
electronic components on the skid will be flame proof, suitable for gases in Groups II A & B.
Included will also be non-explosion proof control panels containing all the necessary thermal
overloads and control modules, all for remote location [more than 50 feet from the skid]. All the
wetted surfaces will be Carbon steel (Boiler quality) unless otherwise specified. The system will
come insulated and ready to hook up to the infrastructure of Thermic fluid, cooling water,
electricity, instrument air, and storage tanks. The system can be located outside even though we
recommend a roof and side cover for protection from winds and sand storms.
The LPS offered will polish the distillate recovered from the system. At rated feed rate of wet oil at
1000 lph, lube fraction distillate recovered will be ~ 700 lph and the polishing system will accept
this as the feed rate. Reduction in color from a feed rate color of ~ 6 to a product color of 4 and
removal of odour will be the performance of the LPS offered. The recovered oil will be a stable
base oil. It should however be noted that lighter colored product can be achieved but at the cost of
capacity.
About 10 - 12% of the feed to the LPS will not be available as polished product. Less than 2% will
be the invisible loss as vapor during the reactivation process and the balance will be collected as
the liquid residue during the reactivation phase. This will be recycled to the feed tank. It should be
noted that this recycle is needed as the system removes color and other odour causing
ingredients. It should also be noted that when the plant is operated for lower polished product color,
shorter polishing times, more frequent drains/reactivation will be required and therefore more
material will be recycled.
1. Processing Phase: In this phase, the oil is polished by forced percolation through "adsorptive
media" columns. The system comprises of multiple banks of multiple columns each.
2. Reactivation Phase: After the polishing cycle, the media beds are usually quite saturated and
the feed and product color approach each other. This justifies reactivation. The media is
reactivated in the columns and a quantity of oil is collected and pumped for reprocessing
(drain). VOC’s that are generated during this reactivation phase are treated in the Thermal
oxidizer and fed to the fire box of the thermic fluid heater for complete combustion.
The system shall be fully assembled on heavy duty steel bases. The system will be designed to be
operated through a PLC.
It needs to be noted that when the media is spent, it needs to be replaced. Such replacement of
the media will be once in ~180 days depending on the type of oil being processed and the care
with which the system is operated. The spent media is a non-hazardous land fill and will have no
oil – it will pose no disposal issue and the quantity will be a small amount as it needs to be
disposed only once in 4-6 months. Combined with the excellent quality & stability of the polished
base lube, this feature renders the regenerative lube polishing system offered, unique and of very
special design. It also needs to be highlighted that this system is very different from the standard
systems offered by others, both in its process, design, fluid mechanics and operation.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
1. The exhaust from the vacuum pump vent, and Lube polishing system: These will consist of
VOC’s and some sulfur compounds. The total flow rate is low, and will depend on the types
of oil being processed, but because they can cause odor they will be handled via a thermal
oxidation piping train (TOX) and sent to the fire box of the thermic fluid heater for complete
combustion. An active carbon filter alternative is provided and the vent will be automatically
diverted to the carbon filter if the Thermic fluid heater trips.
Recovered water:
At 5% water in feed, ~ 50 lit/hr water (recovered from the feed oil) containing trace (<2%)
hydrocarbons needs to be disposed off by the client in the existing ETP or as appropriate. No
equipment is included in the scope of this proposal for this disposal.
The following narration is to clearly mention the battery limits of each unit that is being supplied to
you as part of this proposal. Please refer PFD attached for additional clarity:
Other Supply 1. Developed land with all civil and structural works, access
platforms, walk ways;
2. Electrical house with necessary switch gear and panels
ready for distribution of power to all points in the site;
3. All civil works and foundations;
4. Cable trenches as required for piping, wiring distribution;
5. Concrete slabs as necessary;
6. Water storage sump/tank;
7. Used oil receipt arrangement;
8. Product load out arrangement;
SUPPLY CONDITIONS
1. The various items in the scope of supply of PESCO BEAM will be skid mounted or if shipped
as loose items [like instruments that will damage during transit], packed carefully for sea-
worthy transport.
2. These will be sent in container, as per a packing list that will accompany each supply and also
be provided with the shipping documents.
3. The skids will be loaded in PESCO BEAM shop [Chennai, India] on local road transport for
transport to Port of Origin (Chennai, India).
4. As freight costs vary based on several conditions, it is our usual practice to forward actual
costs to the client prior to shipment. PESCO BEAM has not included in its scope, the following:
a. Sea Freight from Port of origin to Port of destination.
b. Shipping / Transit insurance.
c. Receipt and clearance at Port of destination.
d. Transport from port of destination to site.
e. Any and all related insurance.
5. For purposes of estimating freight, the shipment can be considered to involve:
a. 7 Open top 40 foot containers (out gauge); and,
b. 1 Open top 40 foot container (in gauge).
UTILITY REQUIREMENT
BASIS OF All prices are in US Dollars, FOB Chennai, India. All applicable duties in
PRICES country of destination, shipping charges, transit insurance, freight from port of
discharge to site, any insurance for such carriage will be extra to your account.
SHIPPING The system will be ready for shipping within six months from the start date as
defined below. This includes 1 week of QC at our shop by engineer from the
US.
START DATE The Start date of the contract will be the later date of the following events:
1. Signing of the contract by both parties
2. Receipt of down payment and Letter of Credit
The following provisions will have to be made while checking the guarantees:
All customer supplied utilities match requirements specified.
A PESCO BEAM representative is present during start-up for 2 weeks
The customer’s employees will work as per instructions given by our
commissioning engineer, follow good engineering practices and follow
the operation and instruction manual in running and maintaining the
plant.
The plant supplied is Guaranteed to perform as specified in this proposal.
Components will be guaranteed by PESCO BEAM for a period of One year
from the date of receipt at Port of destination plus 30 days to allow for erection
and start-up, or from the date of commissioning – whichever is sooner - normal
wear and tear exempted. If commissioning is delayed due to fault of PESCO-
BEAM then the date of commissioning will be the start date of the warranty
period, no matter when that is. Seals and bearings and indicating lamp bulbs
will carry only a limited warranty of 60 days unless specified otherwise by the
manufacturers. If they fail within this period they will be shipped free of any
cost. The warranty on component and accessory items not manufactured by
PESCO BEAM is that extended by the manufacturer of such component or
accessory.
Our liability is also limited to replacement or repair of any defective
components and we are not liable for any damage to personnel, property or
loss in production.
SYSTEM The manufacture is envisaged under our stage-wise internal inspection. Your
INSPECTION company representatives are welcome and encouraged to inspect the
completed system prior to shipment. That way all questions can be answered
and any last minute changes made, prior to the system leaving our plant. No
third party inspection is envisaged unless specifically accepted by PESCO
BEAM.
AMENDMENTS Should any changes in scope of supply be required after the contract is signed
OR CHANGES / LOC released, we reserve the right to have the price and terms adjusted to
accommodate the change. If the changes required are of major nature and
cannot be implemented, we reserve the right, not to implement such changes.
FORCE The performance of this Agreement, except for the payment of money for
MAJEURE services already rendered, may be suspended by either party in the event the
performance of obligations are prevented by a cause or causes beyond the
JURISDICTION The contract resulting from this proposal will be governed by the laws of the
Republic of India.
VALIDITY This offer is valid till 27 May 2016 and will be valid beyond this date only if it is
duly extended in writing by PESCO BEAM.
PRICE SCHEDULE
Per diem rates for the deputation of engineers / technicians beyond what is contracted
Compensation for our Engineer/Technicians for site work, beyond what has $500
been stated as part of this proposal will be per day (8 hrs)
Travel expenses, Supplies and Materials, Special Handling, Subcontract and Specialty services
will be at Cost + 12%
Payment terms for above service: 100% as an advance for the time you require them
Other conditions: If it is an extension of their stay at site, no to and fro charges will need to be paid.
Otherwise, to and fro economy class air fare, boarding and food for the period of stay as well as
free local transport will be paid by you. They should also have access to international telephone(s),
fax and internet facilities.
Such guarantees will be the average data from a 24 hour run of the plant during commissioning
and after the plant stabilizes. These data will be based on operator log/field data and laboratory
analysis.
1. Capacity of the distillation section of the plant: 1000 lph feed rate on a continuous basis with a
lube distillate yield of 70% on a dry basis.
3. Lube oil distillate / Polished lube key properties based on feed data given in this proposal:
4. Utilities: