COURSE OVERVIEW

 This hands-on, highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

Oil desalting systems provide protection to capital intensive processing equipment by removing the salt component from crude oil. There are many significant variables to control in the crude oil production process. 

 

This course provides participants with knowledge necessary to understand that desalting operation is one that must constantly be adjusted to maintain optimum performance. The course will move from the fundamentals of the design desalting process, through the various design options and major process variables. Discussion will also include topics on electrical desalting and the types of desalting systems. 

 

As the course progresses, discussion will focus on design considerations, components, operation, performance and troubleshooting faced in desalting operations. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the impact of crude oil quality on desalter performance including the fundamentals of electrical desalting; the types of desalting systems, single-stage dehydrator, single-stage desalter, two-stage desalter, three-stage desalter and typical operating conditions and performance; the desalter components and desalter design considerations; the commercial desalter design for electric AC desalter, electro-dynamic desalter and electrostatic design technology; the factors that affect desalter operation and performance; the types of desalting applications; and the desalter troubleshooting for oily effluent and poor dehydration and/or desalting.