With thirty years of experience providing professional analytical and process engineering services to the sulphur industry, Sulphur Experts has recognized the need to provide a similar, comprehensive and impartial service approach to amine treating processes. Amine Experts (a division within Sulphur Experts Inc.), "fills the void" for high-level amine operations support; providing the customer with a complete package of analytical and engineering capabilities. This comprehensive service package includes on-site plant evaluations which allow for detailed heat and material balance calculations, computer simulated operating guidelines, determination for corrosion potential, evaluation of amine solution degradation potential and associated process effects on the amine unit, based on actual field data and stream analysis.
 

Who will benefit from the services?

Our work experience will allow us to provide impartial engineering support for operators of the following processes:

• Generic Amines: MEA, DEA, MDEA, DIPA
• Chemical / Physical Solvents: Sulfinol, Competitive Formulations
• Mixed Amines: MEA / MDEA, DEA / MDEA
• Formulated Amines: Gas/Spec, Jefftreat, Ucarsol

Our experience in amine treating includes conventional acid gas removal (both gas and liquid treating) and tail gas treating applications.

Why would I need the services of Amine Experts?

Although amine treating is an established process, there are still considerable problems associated with day-to-day operations. These include but are not limited to:

• failure to meet product specification
• foaming and high antifoam consumption
• amine losses
• corrosion
• solution degradation
• solids / filtration problems
• regeneration difficulties
• downstream difficulties

Any one of these problems can be very costly to the operator and if a number of these are present at the same time then you are generally spending too much time and money fighting "fires" instead of concentrating on optimizing your plant.

• do you really know the condition of the amine and how effectively the plant equipment is working compared to its potential?
• is your solution degrading and you don't know the mechanism or any means of slowing down the effects?
• do you have a chronic foaming problem that limits plant throughput or results in excessive anti-foam consumption?
• do you have trouble maintaining sweet sales gas specifications in the summer?
• is corrosion costing you substantial money every turnaround?
• does your sulphur plant operation suffer because of poor acid gas feed quality?
• do you experience chronic damage to tower internals?
• are you overwhelmed with filter change-outs and chemical washes of your vessels and exchangers?
• are you concerned with your reboiler energy requirements?
• do you need to know the ultimate processing capability of your plant with the existing equipment and inlet gas conditions?

If you can answer "yes" to any of these questions, you will benefit from a process evaluation by Amine Experts.

As a completely independent engineering consulting company, we can be open and honest about the best options for your amine treating facility. Our experience in troubleshooting and optimizing hundreds of facilities allows us to provide a wealth of knowledge to your particular situation and allows you the benefit of using our shared learning on similar applications or problems.

Amine Experts is proud to offer the following services:

1. On-site Analytical Services
2. On-site Data Evaluations and Process Optimization
3. Full Engineering Evaluations
4. Pre-turnaround Plant Evaluation
5. Integrated Amine and Sulphur Plant Evaluations
6. Operator Training

For more details on the services Amine Experts provides