The ‘seven deadly sins’ of filtration and separation systems

D. Engel, Nexo Solutions, The Woodlands, Texas; and M. Sheilan, Sulphur Experts, Calgary, Canada Separation systems play a fundamental role in gas processing, both for reliability and as enabling devices for enhanced throughput and process stability. In many cases, these systems are the only and/or last line of defense to protect the plant from unwanted and detrimental contaminants. As plants are required to process gas with more contaminants (such as certain shale gas feeds), these devices are increasingly being required to perform under progressively difficult conditions. As the authors evaluate, troubleshoot and improve many of these systems at a number of plants worldwide, they have id