Oil and Gas: Application Focus

Condensate Ensure your stabilization reliably meets

Stabilization /Fractionation your daily production quotas and outlet
quality needs.

Process Description
Natural gas condensate stabilization and fractionation
processes reduce the vapor pressure of liquid hydrocarbon
condensate to a value ensuring safety during transportation
and storage, and perform an important separation of lighter
from heavier ends. The natural gas condensate is either
stabilized to remove C1-C4 hydrocarbons in a single
column, or is fractionated in stages sequentially removing
one or more of ethane (C2), propane (C3) and butane (C4)
in multiple columns. The stabilized condensate has had the
more volatile ‘light ends’ stripped out, making it less
susceptible to spark ignition. The separated products are
also more valuable as petrochemical feedstocks or other
uses. Keeping the column(s) free from fouling and
corrosion from salty water and solids ingression is critical
to maintain process efficiency and reliability.
and condensate production, minimization of downtime,
Gas Plant Needs and reduced maintenance
• Achieve or exceed condensate and lighter products • Improve process safety by reducing the need for column
production quotas via reliable stabilization/fractionation and reboiler cleanouts and internals replacements
and separation of natural gas condensate • Provide stable operation, consistent on-spec sales
• Maintain process reliability for consistency of natural gas condensate

Production Challenge / Pall Solution

Challenge Solution
Increased downtime and Improve your stabilizer productivity and reliability with effective liquid water and solid
maintenance, process upsets removal upstream of the stabilizer to protect against deposits and corrosion.
causing off-spec products due • Solid particle contaminants in condensate are mostly very fine corrosion products that may
to deposits and corrosion in not be adequately removed by filters that exhibit poor removal performance, unloading,
stabilizer columns and reboiler media migration, channeling, or poor sealing.
caused by salty water and
• A range of absolute and nominal rated filter elements is available to reduce suspended
particulate contaminants in the
solids to <5 ppmw, keep the process equipment clean, and reduce related fouling
condensate that do not easily
issues.
separate due to stable emulsions
• High efficiency AquaSep® EL, XS or PhaseSep® liquid/liquid coalescers reliably meet ‘clear
and bright’ product specification and <20 ppmw downstream per Aqua-Glo1 measurement
to maximize salt and water removal. Offering excellent process equipment protection
from brine-initiated corrosion and fouling.

1 Aqua-Glo is a trademark of Gammon Technical Products Inc.

Process Flow Diagram

Condensate
} C1-C4
light ends
recovery

1 2
Stabilizing column/
fractionating columns

Liquid particle filter Liquid/liquid coalescer

Stabilized condensate

Key Applications / Filter Recommendations (other applications not shown)

Application Pall Product Advantages Customer Benefits

1 Prefiltration prior Ultipleat® High Flow filters, Ultipleat High filtration efficiency, reproducible Ensure long life of the
to liquid/liquid High Flow HT filters, Profile® performance, easy changeout, and coalescers, eliminate
coalescer Coreless filters, Marksman™ filters long filter life particulate fouling of the
stabilizer columns

2 Stabilizer column AquaSep® XS, AquaSep EL or High efficiency specially formulated Safe and reliable production
protection PhaseSep® liquid/liquid coalescers coalescer media for the separation of hydrocarbon liquids by
of stable liquid mixtures protecting stabilizer columns
from brine-initiated corrosion
and fouling

For fast track upgrades, NO CAPEX:

Pall-Fit filter and coalescer retrofits enable a move to Pall quality without change to your existing filter housing
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Experience Matters
Don’t take our word for it. Just ask the thousands of oil and gas engineers around the world why Pall is their
supplier of choice for filtration and separations solutions. Let them tell you how our extended filter life and
simple maintenance protocols save them time that can be spent on value-add process improvements. Ask
them about the reliability and consistent output from the Pall systems installed in their critical processes.
You don’t want to spend time worrying about your filters and coalescers, and we don’t want you to either.
Contact Pall today and let us put our 50+ years of experience to work for you.

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FCOGCONDSTABENc Produced in the USA September 2018