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Refinery Slop Oil Management

Slop oils, with their diverse composition and physical properties, can pose significant challenges for refineries. When reprocessed, these streams can cause operational disruptions, affecting desalter performance, crude units, downstream units, and wastewater treatment plant operations. Nalco Water's pretreatment strategies enable the safe reprocessing of slop oil to help minimize the impact on these facilities.

Minimize the Risk of Unit Upsets

A slop oil treatment program can enhance the quality of oil before returning it to processing. By reducing the solids and water content of reprocessed slop oil, Nalco Water treatment strategies can help minimize the risk of unit upsets, enabling refineries to maximize crude unit throughput and reduce slop oil inventory.

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Nalco Water's Crude Unit Feedstock Pretreatment Solutions

Refinery slop oil management is one part of Nalco Water's comprehensive crude unit feedstock pretreatment offering. Follow this link to learn more about our best-in-class chemicals and proprietary digital technology to help improve the quality of crude charge into the desalter and reduce fouling and corrosion. Our program helps manage filterable solids, BS&W content, and asphaltene-related issues to improve desalter performance and minimize impact on the wastewater treatment plant.