CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATION AND THE CLEANING OF MODERN LOW GRADE HEAVY FUEL OILS

An increasing proportion of today's low grade heavy fuel oils contains residual and distillate components from thermal and catalytic crackers installed in modern refineries. Such fuels are already being supplied and they require careful pretreatment and cleaning before being injected and burned in diesel engines in order to avoid excessive wear and tear. It is thus of utmost importance to design, size, operate and maintain the treatment and cleaning system properly and utilise all available separating capacity in the installation. Though the treatment measures presented in this paper are mainly directed towards new plants, many of the suggestions can be economically justified in existing installations in order to improve overall performance. The article discusses oil properties which affect pretreatment and cleaning, specific treatment devices such as centrifugal separators which function as both a purifier and a clarifier, low grade fuel pretreatment and conventional fuel treatment, and the operation of two separators in series and in parallel.

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• Corporate Authors:

  IPC Industrial Press Limited

  Dorset House, Stamford Street
  London SE1 9LU,   England 
• Authors:
  • Svensson, S
  • von Schultz, B
• Publication Date: 1980-7

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 71-75
• Serial:
  • Motor Ship
  • Volume: 61
  • Issue Number: 720
  • Publisher: Blohm + Goss GMBH
  • Serial URL: http://www.hhc.co/uk/motorship

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Contaminants; Fuel composition; Fuel processing; Fuels; Heavy oils; Petroleum refining
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fuel quality; Oil separators
• Old TRIS Terms: Fuel contamination
• Subject Areas: Energy; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319477
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 8 1980 12:00AM