Refining
Our Downstream Chemicals group’s chemical programs and services address processing, water management, and finished product quality challenges in petroleum refining. We reduce cost by addressing needs and designing, implementing, and monitoring specialty chemical treatment programs that improve profitability and reliability.
Offerings include process emulsion breaking, corrosion, fouling, and foam-control technologies. Plus, we have programs for treating and managing cooling water, boilers, raw water, and wastewater treatment.
Increase value with specialty additives
Our specialty additives increase the value and marketability of crude oils and finished fuels. They reduce operating and maintenance problems caused by metals contamination of heavy fuels used in boiler and GT power generation. We reduce refinery maintenance costs with turnkey process vessel and storage tank cleaning and decontamination services.
Maximize plant operations
We increase plant profitability by improving asset reliability, maximizing capacity utilization, and achieving or maintaining environmental compliance. We also increase energy efficiency, reduce hydrocarbon and greenhouse gas emissions, and lower maintenance and cleaning cost. Other benefits include
- improving feedstock flexibility
- extending unit run lengths
- maximizing throughput and conversion
- meeting crude oil, intermediate, and finished fuel product specifications.
Opportunity Crude Processing
Our chemical treatment programs and services reduce refinery feedstock cost and improve feedstock selection flexibility.
Desalting Optimization
Our desalter optimization services don’t just focus on your desalter. We consider and treat all components that affect the desalter feed quality to improve crude unit operations.
Corrosion Control
Our corrosion control programs combine chemicals, simulation, and monitoring techniques to minimize the impact of naphthenic acid and overhead corrosion.
Fouling Control
Our fouling control programs minimize total fouling cost by avoiding unscheduled production slowdowns or shutdowns and limiting emissions.
SureClean Cleaning and Degassing
Our SureClean™ Services reduce plant turnaround cost by cleaning and decontaminating process equipment safely, quickly, and effectively
FLO Pipeline Drag Reducer Products
Our FLO™ pipeline boosters deliver drag reduction solutions, including programs tailored for niche applications.
Utility Boiler and Fired Heaters
Ensure fired heaters and utility boilers can use heavy fuel oil (HFO) without the problems of corrosion or slag-and-ash buildup.
Delayed Coker Antifoam
Improve refinery profitability by controlling foam in the coker and reducing silicon contamination in the hydrotreater so you can run an efficient and cost-effective operation.
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Scott
Bieber
Baker Hughes Representative
+1.800.231.3606
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Associated Information
Case Histories
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Baker Hughes Filtration ...
A US refiner used a pipeline to distribute diesel fuel to the northern, Midwestern states. The fuel was contaminated and the fuel’s end users had problems with it plugging up ...
Additional Resources
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Chemical Inventions that ...
For almost a century, innovation has been part of our DNA in the Baker Hughes Downstream Chemicals product line. In 1914, William S. Barnickel was awarded a patent for the first ...
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Assault on Salt
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Planning Ahead for ...
Executive Brief Heavy conventional and bitumen-based crudes from Canada represent a significant volume increase in feedstocks for North American refineries, as production and ...