Gas Processing & Power

Process internals manufactured by ACS are widely used within the gas processing and power industries.  

Coal fired power plants have Flue Gas desulphurization (FGD) process units that utilize large vane systems to reduce plant emissions, while minimizing fouling and extending maintenance intervals. 

Today a large number of natural gas fired (clean fuel) power plants and LNG terminals are being constructed and older conventional coal fired facilities are being optimized to increase efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts. 

Separation vessels use wire mesh pads unit to eliminate  liquid carry over into pipelines. When the inlet separator has particles which may foul a mesh unit, then a vane unit is used.

Co-knitted high surface area fibers knitted over metal mesh create extremely efficient mist eliminators that are commonly used to reduce glycol and amine losses, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual operating expenses.  This application is documented in our download section on technical papers. 

Dessicant and fired dryer loads and service life can also be greatly reduced by proper mist eliminator selection to remove the free water from the gas stream, reducing their drying job down to just reducing the total moisture content of the gas down to the required 7LB per mmscfd pipeline specification.

Turbine fuel gas filter separators are another common application, with mesh-vane units being preferable for fine micron removal to help protect and extend turbine fuel nozzle tip performance.  Turbines are also subject to wet steam wear damage on the trailing edge of the rotar blades which can be reduced by upgrading the mist elimination equipment in the steam feed knock out separator drums. Expander inlets and Expander exits also require liquid removal.  Inlet drums to compressors and interstage knockouts are common applications for conventional mesh pads, and mesh-vane  assemblies for high capacity increased volume debottlenecking applications.

Coalescers are used to separate glycols from natural gas liquids.

Bubble cap tray and sieve trays are used in dehydrators and desulphinators.