Corrosion Control
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Nalco EAME Headquarters
Nalco Europe Sàrl
A-One Business Park
Z.A. La Pièce 1
Route de l’Etraz
1180 Rolle
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)21 614 6400
Scorpion® II Technology
A million barrels per day of discount crudes can offer extra profits of $1-2 per barrel – if a refiner can process them without spending millions of dollars on metallurgy upgrade and continue to maintain crude unit reliability.The naphthenic acids in most of these crudes can cause vicious corrosion that is hard to predict and difficult to prevent.
Do you want extra profits of $1-2 per barrel of crude for a cost of less than $0.05 per barrel? Our corrosion control program can make it possible. Naphthenic acids come in a wide range of molecular weights.The damage these acids do depend not only on the types and concentrations of acids present but also on process variables such as temperature and flow velocity. Even crudes with a total acid number (TAN) as low as 0.3 can cause costly high-temperature corrosion failures.
The SCORPION II corrosion control program offers field proven performance when processing high naphthenic acid crudes- including those most recently available from the North Sea and West Africa.The program includes consultancy services with industry experts using new risk management tools to support the implementation and ongoing processing of high acid crudes. It also includes a range of field proven SCORPION II corrosion inhibitors that form a tenacious passive barrier on metal surfaces that dramatically increases resistance to naphthenic acid attack.
