Sector: Oil & Gas
Location: Western Australia
Single-pass MyCelx coalescer and polishing filters reduced hydrocyclone effluent from 270 ppm to 3 to 3.5 ppm oil in water.
Client: multinational oil and gas company, remote WA location.
Problem: produced water after the FPSO hydrocyclone still carried 270 ppm oil, all emulsified or soluble with no free oil separating even after a week.
Duty: 2.5 kL/h single-pass trial with a 30 ppm overboard limit, MPL Laboratory analysis.
Plant: MyCelx Advanced Coalescer (MAC) then MyCelx EB and WSO polishing filters in series.
Results: MAC reduced 270 to 101 ppm; first polishing stage to 11.95 ppm; WSO filters to 3 and 3.5 ppm; oil droplets below 1 micron removed; no breakthrough on filter inspection.