Vortex Technology Improves Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit Profits and Performance
Vortex Technology Improves Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit Profits and Performance
2 Pages© 2013 Rosemount Inc. All rights reserved For more information: www.rosemount.com Vortex Technology Improves Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit Profits and Performance RESULTS • Saved maintenance cost of $245,280 annually • Increased process uptime with fewer shutdowns • Eliminated harmful emissions with all-welded design • Improved measurement reliability material balance to within 1% APPLICATION Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) APPLICATION CHARACTERISTICS Hot oil purge line replacement CUSTOMER An oil refinery in North America CHALLENGE Hot oil purge line replacement. This oil refinery had been experiencing plugged impulse lines with very hot and viscous black slurry oil with catalyst fines in their DP orifice plates at the fractionator bottoms. In order to prevent this pluggi
