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Sintered metal filter elements in Oil & Gas / Petrochemical

Long runs between turnarounds and streams that attack stainless steel, with catalyst that has to be caught and recovered rather than lost.

  • Sintered metal fiber felt 0.5 – 50 μm
  • Sintered wire mesh 1 – 200 μm
  • Woven wire mesh 5 – 200 μm

Systems and Equipment

Where the element sits in the plant

The system this duty belongs to, and the filter positions we are asked to quote in it.

Systems and equipment Refining and chemical units · natural gas and amine treating · oilfield lines

  1. 01

    Final filtration of petroleum products

  2. 02

    Acid, alkali, alcohol and organic solvent filtration

  3. 03

    Coker gas oil and hydrocracker recycle oil

  4. 04

    Fuel gas and lubricating oil · compressor and turbine protection

  5. 05

    Precious-metal catalyst filtration and recovery

  6. 06

    Amine sweetening · drilling-mud screens and frac-fluid filtration

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Media

The medium this duty points to

Sintered fiber felt where the catalyst is fine · sintered wire mesh for amine and solvent duty under high ΔP · woven wire mesh for screens and protection layers

Sintered metal fiber felt

The finest rating with the highest dirt holding

  • Filtration rating: 0.5 – 50 μm

Elements in this medium

Sintered wire mesh

Rigid duty: backwash, pulse-jet, high ΔP

  • Filtration rating: 1 – 200 μm

Elements in this medium

Woven wire mesh

Coarser ratings, and the support layers of the two beside it

  • Filtration rating: 5 – 200 μm

Elements in this medium

Elements

Elements we quote for this duty

The elements in the range whose own pages name this duty.

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The Quote

What we need to quote it

Seven inputs settle the medium, the rating and the alloy. Send what you have and an engineer confirms the rest.

  • Operating temperature, and the peaks it reaches
  • The medium, and any corrosive species in it
  • Operating and differential pressure
  • The contaminant, and its particle size distribution if it has been analysed
  • The required rating, plus any bubble point or air permeability target
  • Flow rate, and the number of elements per housing
  • The geometry or the OEM number of the element you run today

Send the duty, not the part number.

Temperature, the medium and what is in it, the pressure, the flow and the alloy you run today are enough to start. An engineer names the medium, sets the rating, and says where the duty exceeds what we build. If you already have a drawing or an OEM number, send that instead: it is the faster route to a quote.

Drawing review 3–5 working days · Samples ship in 20–30 days · Production runs 30–60 days