Tracerco Diagnostics™ Distribution and Residence Time Studies

What type of studies does Tracerco provide for reactors and what do they reveal? A Tracerco Diagnostics™ Distribution or Residence Time study provides crucial information to measure reactor performance. They provide valuable information about the residence time and distribution of solids, vapour or liquid at specific operational conditions. Results from the study can assist plant personnel to accurately diagnose integrity problems with internals and determine uniformity of distribution ...

Tracerco Diagnostics™ Distribution study - FCC stripper

Uniform distribution of catalyst and steam in a stripper is critical to achieve high stripping efficiency (less carry-down of hydrocarbon products from reactor to regenerator). A failure to effectively remove hydrocarbon from the catalyst will result in a loss of product, lower throughput, and lower catalyst activity due to increased regenerator bed temperature. The Field Test Tracerco was contacted to conduct distribution studies for a leading refiner that was experiencing ...

Tracerco PhaseFinder™

What type of services does Tracerco provide for desalters and what does it reveal? A Tracerco PhaseFinder™ scan of a desalter measures interface levels through the vessel wall between liquid and solids, or between two different types of liquids. A PhaseFinder™ scan of desalter vessels will yield a lot of information about where the various layers of material are located, and the quality of interface between oil and water. A tracer study can be used to measure the oil and ...

Tray designs for extreme fouling applications

Today refiners experience a lot of problems with processing of opportunity or heavy crudes. Such crudes have very high sulfur content and require the addition of amine scavengers before desalting. These amines decompose in the heater and create ammonium chlorides in the presence of water in the top of the crude tower. Dissolved salts start to precipitate and crystallize when the solution becomes saturated and water is vaporized. Such fouling starts to grow below and above trays ...

Tru-Grid™ Scan

What does a Tru-Grid™ Scan do? A Tru-Grid™ Scan of a packed distillation tower provides a density profile of the process inside the tower. The power of the technology is that the scan is done whilst the tower is operating so real-time information about how the tower is performing at that instant is obtained. The scan ‘sees through’ the vessel wall allowing determination of what is happening inside without the need to shut down. The scan produces a density profile of the ...

Understanding design and performance of high performance structured packing

High performance structured packings have been on the market for around 10 years. They continue to gain market share because of their high capacity and excellent efficiency. This is especially true in vacuum tower applications where pressure drop is critical. High performance packings can yield substantial savings in capital and operating costs with increased capacity and lower flash zone pressure and temperature. Packing Design Fundamentals One of the fundamental characteristics ...

VFF - your expert for maritime exhaust gas treatment

For decades, Vereinigte Füllkörper-Fabriken (VFF) has successfully supplied tower packings and internals made of a wide variety of materials worldwide for a wide range of applications in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, in environmental technology, plant construction and other areas. Packing elements for maritime exhaust gas purification Energy-saving measures are becoming increasingly important in the field of exhaust-gas purification. VFF ...

VFF Products

VFF supplies a wealth of column-related products and consultation services for the most diverse applications e.g.: - Absorption - Desorption - Distillation - Extraction - Drying - Cooling - Humidification - Water treatment - Droplet separation (demisters) - Desalination - Heterogeneous catalyst reactors - and much more

VFF-NetBall®: High-performance in the shape of a ball

The VFF-NetBall® a plastic random packing  has been devised by VFF's research and development division and sets new standards in absorption and desorption. Its favourable flow profile, combined with a high specific surface, offers top mass-transfer properties with an extremely high hydraulic load capacity and minimum pressure drop. Its specially designed net structure guarantees high mechanical stability and results in an optimum bed constitution.

VFF-Power-Pak®

The VFF Power-Pak®, a VFF-patent, is a completely newly designed high-performance tower packing in ceramic with a similar profile to structured packings but which retains all the many benefits of random packings. Its innovative shape developed by VFF leads to an extremely low pressure drop with an impressive mass transfer! VFF Power-Pak® is a high-performance random packing designed for maximum capacity. Compared with a conventional random packing with an equivalent rated value ...

VFF-Twin-Pak®

Extremely low pressure drop with best mass transfer. The VFF-Twin-Pak®, a VFF-patent, is an entirely newly developed high-performance metal tower packing with a profile that comes close to the structured packings, while not doing without the numerous advantages of a tower packing. Its form combines an extremely low pressure drop with a convincing mass transfer! The VFF-Twin-Pak® is a high-performance tower packing, predestined for highest capacity. The mass transfer of the ...

VSP®-V High performance tower packing with lowest pressure drop

The VSP-V is the updated version of VFF’s world wide known random packing VSP. The VSP-V offers high performance in plastic with top mass transfer and lowest pressure drop and is easy to handle during column loading and emptying.