Linas Technology - Distillation of 21 century

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Advantages of Linas technology and Linas rectification units

Linas industrial oil refineries are in continuous commercial operation about 4.5 years. First plant SMR-8 (12) is under commercial operation since April, 2004, and refineries SMR-50 more than two years. SMR-150 will be in commercial operation from December 2008. For this time the sufficient operational experience on installations Linas has gathered and now it is possible to speak about the real and checked up advantages of Linas technology compared to conventional technology.
Let try to compare on real industrial cases. Picture 1 contains view of Linas tower and conventional tray tower for crude oil refinery with equal annual capacity – around 150.000 MTY. The towers do have close separation capacity and produce nearly equal products and extract close amount light oil from crude oil.

It is easy to see advantages of Linas tower. It is much smaller height. Linas tower contains internal diesel oil reboiler, which is used internal heat of condensation. Linas tower needs around 25-28 % less energy than the conventional tower. Linas tower does not need additional steam to extract maximum light oil.

In general advantages of Linas technology are presented below.

Advantages of Linas oil refineries:

1. High quality of received products and stability of work of column Linas at conducting technological process.

2. Low power inputs.

Linas tower is considerably smaller in comparison with traditional analogues. It results in reduction of heat losses up to 10 %. Internal reflux of Linas technology and a very small hydraulic resistance allow save up to 17-18 % of energy in addition. In the sum it results in economy of energy from 12 % up to 28 % in comparison with traditional processes of rectification.
On first step oil refining Linas tower does not require use direct steam. It increases the savings of energy too.

3. Sharp reduction fire and explosion hazard at occurrence of emergencies.

Because of reduction of amounts of compounds inside of Linas tower at least 100 times compared to conventional towers.

4. Increased operational reliability of the equipment and stability to formation of pollution.

5. Unique applicability in vacuum processes.

One of key features of Linas logy is low hydraulic resistance of Linas tower. Together with experts of companies Zeton BV (Netherlands) had been carried out experimental measurements of pressure difference in working Linas tower in height of 2 meters. Pressure difference has made only 5-6 millibars.

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