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Mercury Removal Solutions
Mercury Removal Solutions
Mercury Removal
Presentation Title
Solutions
(Front Cover ver.1)
for Your Liquid Hydrocarbon
South Africa
America
< 2 ppb 284 wells
64%
Catalyst contamination
Poisoning to active metal of catalyst
Light naphtha
Heavy naphtha
Wellhead
Lower-mercury Kerosene, Diesel,
Heavy oil, Residue
Topper
Upstream side Downstream side
MRU
MRU
LPG
Light naphtha
Wellhead
Kerosene, Diesel,
Wellhead Heavy oil, Residue
Higher-mercury Topper 5
Higher-mercury condensate
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JGCʼs solution and service
Client
Mercury type
Difficulty
Compounds
to remove
Elemental Mercury Hg easy
CH3HgCl
Ionic Mercury RS-Hg-SR’ difficult
HgCl2
(CH3)2Hg
(C2H5)2Hg
Organic Mercury (C3H7)2Hg difficult
(C4H9)2Hg
Adsorbents
MR-3 MR-21
1,000 Organic((C2H5)2Hg)
Adsorbent : MR-3
Temp.: Room Temp.
100 Feed: n-Hexane
Hg Conc. (ppb)
10 Leaked
Generally in
1
Successfully Crude oil
Target
removed Condensate
0.1
>99.9%
Decomposition
Hg compound: (C2H5)2Hg
: normal condition
Mercury
: inhibition condition
Generally in
Leakage of mercury Crude oil
Condensate
Liquid Gas
Reactor Adsorber Adsorber Feed
Containing ionic and/or organic
mercury and adsorption inhibitor
Feed
Feature
Gas Widely applicable
Liquid
Stripper Poisons
Inhibitor All type of mercury can be treated
Stripping Product
Untreatable hydrocarbon
by conventional technology
Process-A Process-C
Adsorption Decomposition
+ Stripping
Elemental only + Adsorption
Process-B
Decomposition
Elemental + Adsorption
+ Ionic (Organic)