Corrosion Control
Our corrosion control programs combine chemicals, simulation, and monitoring techniques to minimize the impact of naphthenic acid and overhead corrosion. This improves safety, increases feedstock flexibility, and reduces your total cost of operations.
Ensure integrity and safety of your operations by minimizing corrosion. Minimizing corrosion increases refinery profitability by increasing process reliability, capacity utilization, and feedstock flexibility. It also reduces maintenance cost and extends equipment life. Our solutions let you run higher TAN crude blends, avoid costly corrosion failures, and have crude oil selection flexibility.
Address naphthenic acid corrosion
High-acid crudes are economically beneficial for refiners, but the negative impacts of the crudes must be overcome. Naphthenic acid affects product yields, quality, and reliability.
Baker Petrolite SMARTGUARD™ naphthenic acid corrosion control program ensures such economic opportunities are taken while minimizing total cost of running these crudes. Our program protects critical refinery equipment from high-temperature corrosion and reduces the risk in safely processing high-acid crudes. The program also offers greater flexibility to profit from running a higher percentage of discounted opportunity crudes.
Control overhead corrosion
Our TOPGUARD™ overhead corrosion control program predicts and controls the corrosive impact of crude blends and operating conditions. Our program uses sophisticated simulation technology that offers critical insight into the phase behavior that leads to corrosion. The Baker Petrolite Ionic Model—a proprietary thermodynamic database containing over a decade of application experience—and our Ionic Model Field Monitor ensure the integrity and safety of your operations.
The TOPGUARD program defines the optimum operating envelope for increased feedstock flexibility, responds to changing unit conditions for improved process reliability, increases capacity utilization for increased refinery profitability, and reduces maintenance cost by extending equipment life.
We have developed a series of TOPGUARD corrosion inhibitors and neutralizers. These solutions address the increased corrosion potential that occurs with more challenging opportunity crude oils.
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Randy
Rechtien
Technical Representative
+1.800.231.3606
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Scott
Bieber
Baker Hughes Representative
+1.800.231.3606
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