Coalescer handles industrial emulsions.
Press Release Summary:
Designed for liquid/liquid separations in refinery, chemical, flavor and fragrance, and biotechnology industries, PhaseSep® HE Series Coalescer handles difficult emulsions. It captures small, emulsified droplets while still allowing economical flux rates. Constructed of fluoropolymer medium and stainless steel hardware to meet chemical compatibility requirements, unit features pore structure suited for coalescing.
Original Press Release:
Pall Launches New High Efficiency PhaseSep HE Series Coalescer to Handle the Toughest Industrial Emulsions
East Hills, NY (June 30, 2004) - - Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) introduces its PhaseSep® HE Series Coalescer, a new high efficiency cartridge to improve separation of the most difficult emulsions found in industrial processes. It improves performance due to enhanced efficiency to capture small, emulsified droplets while still allowing economical flux rates. This latest addition to the Pall line of PhaseSep Coalescers is designed for use in a wide range of liquid/liquid separations in the refinery, chemical, flavor & fragrance and biotechnology industries.
"The presence of difficult to separate emulsions can be a significant problem for many industries resulting in both delays and higher costs," says Greg Collins, Vice President, Pall Corporation. "Our new coalescer will enable manufacturers to achieve a host of benefits including reducing fouling of reactors, extraction towers, and distillation columns; meeting inlet contamination specifications to water bio-treatment plants, achieving quality goals for final products: reducing inventory in settling tanks; and ensuring consistent compliance with environmental discharge standards."
The PhaseSep HE Series Coalescer is constructed of fluoropolymer medium and stainless steel hardware to meet the demanding challenges of aggressive chemical compatibility and high temperature service. Using innovative medium manufacturing techniques, Pall was able to create a pore structure ideally suited for coalescing.
Breaking stable emulsions can be a difficult task depending on the physical properties of the oil, water and surfactant system. Liquid contaminants can cause final products to be off-specification, deactivate expensive catalysts, foul contactor and stripping trays, lead to corrosion, result in delays when separation is required in downstream storage tanks and increase the costs for wastewater treatment.
Typical applications for the Pall Phase HE Series Coalescer include chemical production of phenol, styrene and propylene oxide (separation of caustic from organic peroxides), polycarbonate polymer production (separation of caustic or water from methylene chloride) and refinery desulfurization (separation of caustic from hydrocarbon streams). For the Food & Beverage industry, the new coalescer is applicable for the production of flavors, such as separation of citric oil from water-alcohol. It is also applicable for the Biotechnology industry in the recovery of valuable solvents and for general industry for the purification of wastewater streams by removing free oil or liquid hydrocarbons.
About Pall Corporation
Pall Corporation is the global leader in the rapidly growing field of filtration, separations and purification Pall's business is organized around two broad markets: Life Sciences and Industrial. The Company provides leading-edge products to meet the demanding needs of customers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, transfusion medicine, semiconductors, municipal drinking water and aerospace. Total revenues are $1.6 billion. The company is headquartered in East Hills, New York, and has operations in more than 30 countries. Further information can be found on its Web site www.pall.com.
