WO1996024056A1 - Chloride monitoring apparatus and process - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for monitoring the presence of chlorides in a liquid, discontinuously but at frequent intervals.
- One particular application of the method and apparatus is in the analyzing of process waters containing sulphides, hydrocarbons and other pollutants in the presence of the chlorides being monitored, for example with a view to controlling the dosing of a conditioning additive to the crude or to the process water.
- FR-A-2342496 discloses a continuous process in which the monitoring of halide ions in the presence of hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S) and other sulphides is effected by first destroying the H,S and/or other sulphides by oxidation.
- H 2 S hydrogen sulphide
- a chemical such as a caustic or a corrosion inhibitor or a neutralizing agent
- one aspect of the present invention provides a process for analyzing the chloride content of a liquid, comprising: stripping hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulphide from a batch of the liquid; reacting the liquid batch with an oxidizing reagent to oxidize HS " and S ⁇ ions into sulphate ions, and to lower the pH of the liquid to be analyzed; and then analyzing the chloride content of the products of the reaction by ionometry.
- the process may include the steps of adding a conditioning additive to the liquid, and adjusting the dose of the conditioning additive in response to the chloride concentration determined.
- a second aspect of the present invention provides apparatus for analyzing the chloride content of liquid, comprising a stripper to receive said liquid to be analyzed and to strip compounds from the liquid by passing stripping air through the liquid; a reactor vessel connected to said stripper to receive the stripped liquid and also connected to a supply of reagent for reaction with said liquid; an ionometry measuring cell connected to receive the reaction products from said reactor vessel; air propulsion means for movement of the liquid and reagent through the apparatus propulsion, thereby avoiding the need for pumps in contact with the liquid being analyzed; and control means for controlling the charging and discharging of successive batches of liquid in said stripper, the reaction in said reactor vessel, and the ionometry operation in said ionometry cell, all in batchwise manner.
- FIGURE 1 is a schematic view of analyzing apparatus for effecting the chloride analysis process in accordance with the present invention
- FIGURE 2 is a Pourbaix diagram plotting potential against pH value during the execution of the embodiments of process described herein;
- FIGURE 3 is a front view of the lockable cabinet containing the apparatus, with the door open;
- FIGURE 3a is a view of the interior of the left- hand side wall of the cabinet
- FIGURE 3b is a view of the interior of the right- hand side wall of the cabinet
- FIGURE 4 is an exterior view of the right-hand side of the cabinet
- FIGURE 5 is a plot of the chloride concentration in pp over a prolonged period in minutes covering several measuring cycles.
- a continuous flow of process water from a refinery or petrochemical processing plant is bled from the plant, filtered, and then stripped of its residual hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulphide, using air.
- a sample batch of this stripped water is then taken, and is conveyed to a reactor where a single reagent is added in a quantity related to the volume of the sample batch.
- a single reagent is used, in this case an aqueous solution of nitric acid (1 mole/1) and sodium bromate (0.1 mole/1) .
- This reaction both (a) oxidizes the HS " and S " ions to S0 4 ⁇ ions which will not interfere with the measurement of the chloride ions; and (b) adjusts the pH to the desired range for achieving optimum accuracy in the chloride analysis.
- Other reagents may be used, for example any oxidant which will oxidize sulphides but not chlorides could work. Examples include a chromate (Cr0 7 "" ) or a permanganate (MnO ) .
- the advantage of using nitric acid is that it both adjusts the pH value downwardly and oxidizes the sulphides as N0 3 " is also an oxidizing agent. ⁇
- the reaction time of this first reaction is selected so as to ensure completion of the reaction, and the solution is then stripped with air for a given duration in order to remove bromine.
- the reaction time and the duration of the air stripping step will be adjusted in order to ensure that: (i) all the elemental sulphur produced will be oxidized to sulphate and will consequently have no fouling effect downstream in the process; (ii) all the bromine produced by this oxidation reaction will be stripped; and
- the pH value does not need adjusting by any means other than the reaction with the oxidizing reagent, so one oxidizing reagent will suffice.
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the apparatus for carrying out the above method
- an inlet valve 1 adjustable to select a sample of a few hundred ml of process water to be passed to two successive water filters 3 and 5, the first filter 3 having a mesh size of lOO ⁇ m and the second filter 5 having a mesh size of lO ⁇ m.
- excess process water from the valve 1 is passed to waste at 9 by way of a further control valve 11.
- Feed to the filters is by way of a thermometric sensor 7 which can be used as a means of protecting the analyzing apparatus against the effect of a high temperature sample by barring the further entry of such a sample beyond the inlet valve 1 or discharging it through valve 11.
- the process water flows to a pH sensor 13, by way of a control valve 15.
- the pH signal may be used for identifying the position on the Pourbaix diagram as will be described below with reference to Figure 2 but also provides a second parameter indicative of -the corrosiveness of the sample batch of process water.
- air from a supply arrangement to be described later is introduced through inlet pipe 21 and released into the filtered process water through injector head 23.
- the air passing through the process water in the stripper column 19 removes the residual hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulphide and is discharged through a vent 25, whereas the stripped process water passes along line 27 to a three- way control valve 29 when a sample of the stripped liquid is being taken for ad rvance along line 31 to a reactor vessel 33 of relatively small and controlled volume, in this case 25 ml.
- valve 29 During discharge of the stripper 19 the valve 29 will normally be connected, as shown, to communicate the discharge line 27 from the stripper with a vent line 34 for any entrained air therein and with an overflow line 35 for excess stripped process water.
- This discharge from the stripper 19 proceeds until a vessel 32 in the line between the valve 29 and the overflow line 35, and that line itself, are full and stripped liquid begins to overflow through the line 35.
- this operation may be controlled on a timed basis by a process control unit so that it will be known that the elapsed time during which the valve 29 remains in the position shown in Figure 1 is sufficient to fill the vessel 32 and the line containing it.
- valve 29 is then changed by being driven pneumatically in response to operation of its solenoid 37 to occupy a configuration in which it communicates the discharge line 27 from the stripper with the feed line 31 to the reactor vessel 33, in order to supply to that reactor vessel 33 a sample batch of stripped process water which is always of a precisely known volume (the volume of the vessel 32 and its line between the valve 29 and the overflow line 35) .
- an overflow line 41 is connected to the reactor vessel in the upper part, thereby defining a constant liquid/air interface in the reactor vessel 33.
- a single reagent in this case an aqueous solution of nitric acid (1 mole/1) and sodium bromate (0.1 mole/1), is displaced from a reagent supply vessel 43 by means of air passing along line 45 from the above- mentioned air supply arrangement.
- the reagent leaves the supply vessel 43 through a discharge line 47 which dips into the vessel 43 well below the surface of the liquid therein.
- the regent is caused to flow through discharge line 47 as a result of the application of air pressure above the upper level of the liquid in the supply vessel 43, once a solenoid 49 has operated a three-way flow valve 51 to communicate air supply line 45 with an air inlet line 53 to the reagent supply vessel 43.
- discharge from the supply vessel 43 is by way of a further three-way control valve 55, actuated by its solenoid 57, and associated with a volume control vessel 60, a vent 61 and an overflow 65 which are used in the same manner as to the control vessel 32, vent 34 and overflow 35 described above.
- the three-way flow valves 51 and 55 will be maintained, by their respective solenoids 49 and 57, such that they communicate the reagent supply vessel 43 with vent lines 59 and 61 including waste bleeds 63 and 65 to isolate the reagent supply vessel 43 from the air supply line 45 and to guard against any possibility of back pressure from the reactor vessel 33 displacing reagent too far along the vent lines 59 and 61.
- a three-way valve 67 will be controlled by its solenoid 69 to isolate the reactor vessel discharge line 71 from a feed line 81 to an ionometry cell 83.
- a shut-off valve 75 in an air supply line 77 to the three-way valve 67 is closed, thereby effectively closing off the discharge from the reactor vessel and allowing the reactants to collect in the reactor vessel 33.
- This condition of the valves 67 and 75 is maintained for a suitable reaction time interval after restoration of the three-way valves 29, 51 and 55 to the configuration shown in Figure 1 where they have effectively closed off the flows of stripped process water and reagent to the reactor vessel 33.
- a time delay of the order of 10 minutes for the reaction in the reactor vessel 33 is adequate to allow oxidation of the sulphides in the sample of process water in the reactor vessel 33.
- the position plottable on the Pourbaix diagram moves, with simultaneous oxidation and acidification, along the straight line path AE across zone 84 on the Pourbaix diagram representing the deposition of elemental sulphur.
- This zone 84 is traversed without any interruption, and the reaction time is adjusted in order that, after zone 84 has been crossed, all the sulphur- present will be oxidized into sulphate. Thus no elemental sulphur will reach the measuring cell.
- a solenoid 73 Upon termination of the reaction, a solenoid 73 will operate the flow control valve 75 in the air supply line 77 to apply, to the three-way valve 67, air under pressure both to resist escape of the mixture from within the reactor vessel 33 and also to bubble the air through the reactor vessel 33 to a vent 79 in order to strip the mixture of reaction products in the vessel 33 of bromine.
- This bromine stripping operation can be carried out throughout the reaction time in the reactor vessel 33, and will be terminated by actuation of the solenoid 69 to operate the three-way valve 67 to communicate the reactor vessel 33 with the feed line 81 to the ionometry measuring cell 83 where determination of the chloride content of the prepared process water sample can be carried out by means of electrodes 85 and 86 of which electrode 85 is a reference electrode and electrode 86 is a specific ion selective electrode, selective in this case to chloride ions, to record the proportion of chloride ions present in the cell 83.
- the air stripping phase will be initiated by opening of the flow control valve 75, after the desired reaction time in the reactor vessel 33, and will be terminated by operation of the three-way valve 67 to isolate the air supply from the reactor vessel 33 and to communicate the discharge line 71 with the measuring cell 83.
- This stripping phase may be of the order of 30 seconds, but will of course be adjustable in order to ensure adequate removal of the pollutants such as bromine, sulphides, and native sulphur which could interfere with the chloride measurement in the cell 83.
- the result of the chloride analysis carried out using the electrodes 85 and 86 is then processed by a microprocessor, and is then preferably displayed and recorded for future study.
- the cycle repeat frequency may be adjustable, for example from once per 20 minutes to once per 2 hours, and will be such that the batches are processed sequentially in rapid succession.
- control system to achieve this automatic operation of the device is not illustrated in detail in Figure 1, but the design and construction of such a system is well within the ability of the skilled control engineer without requiring any additional inventive activity on his behalf in order simply to make the control system function as described.
- the same control system also ensures that after a predetermined number of chloride analysis operations in the cell 83 an auto-calibration cycle will be carried out using standard solutions so as to ensure that the values recorded by the electrode system 85, 86 are still accurate. This auto-calibration operation will be described shortly below.
- control system will ensure that a controlled cleaning cycle is carried out automatically to clean the reactor vessel 33 and the measuring cell 83 using demineralized water from a demineralized water supply arrangement which will now be described.
- the demineralized water supply arrangement illustrated in Figure 1 comprises a demineralized water storage vessel 87 having an air supply line 89 which includes a control valve 91 actuated by a solenoid 93 to open the air supply at the start of a cleaning cycle.
- This application of air to the demineralized water storage vessel 87 initiates expulsion of demineralized water along an outlet line 95 to a three- way valve 97 which is controlled by a solenoid 99 and is normally in the condition illustrated in Figure 1 in which communicates the water discharge line 95 with a waste line 101.
- the valve 97 is normally maintained in this open condition and will be held in that same configuration for a brief interval after the air supply line 91 is opened, thereby ensuring that demineralized water in the discharge line 95 and in the vicinity of the valve 97 is initially expelled to waste so that, when the solenoid 99 actuates the valve 97 to communicate the water discharge line 95 with a water supply line 103 to the reactor vessel 33, the initial flow of water will have been taken freshly from the demineralized water supply vessel 87.
- the three-way valve 67 at the outlet from the reactor will be in the alternative configuration from that shown in Figure 1 in that it communicates the discharge line 71 from the reactor with the feed line 81 to the measuring cell 83 and allows the discharge of the cleaning flow of demineralized water to a waste 105 by way of the measuring cell 83.
- This is permitted by actuation of a controllable dump valve 107 by its solenoid 109 to open to permit discharge flow, whereas normally during a measuring operation the valve 107 will be closed in order to ensure that a static sample of prepared process water in the measuring cell 83 can reside there long enough to allow the chloride measurement operation to take place.
- overfilling of the reactor vessel 33 is prevented thanks to the overflow line 41.
- the demineralized water flow the reactor vessel 33 will normally be closed.
- the measuring cell 83 will be supplied by way of a calibration supply line 111 from a flow control valve 113 actuated by solenoid 115.
- the concentrations of the standard solutions (10 and 100 ppm) in the reservoirs 117 and 119 can be adjusted as required in order to correspond to the likely chloride concentrations in the process water to be monitored thereby ensuring that the autocalibration always takes place in the working concentration range. For example, if the chloride it concentrations which the apparatus is to be expected to monitor are of a higher or a lower value than the range of from 10 to 100 ppm, correspondingly higher or lower chloride concentrations will be present in the standard solutions in the reservoirs 117 and 119.
- a measuring cycle of the desired duration can then be carried out using the electrodes 85 and 86, during which time the valve 121 may be actuated by its solenoid 123 to communicate now the reservoir 119 with its stronger (100 ppm) solution with the shut-off valve 113.
- the dump valve 107 is opened and the contents of the measuring cell 83 are discharged to empty the cell 83 ready for the next part of the auto-calibration cycle when the dump valve 107 is closed and the calibration flow valve 113 is opened to load the measuring cell 83 with a desired quantity of the 100 ppm solution from the reservoir 191 after which the closure of the calibration flow valve 113 defines the end of that sample and signals that the measuring cell 83 is ready for its second calibration stage.
- the error (if any) between the recorded concentration and the known value of 100 ppm chloride content is noted and, on the basis of the two error readings (one at 10 ppm and one at 100 ppm) any adjustment of the calibration of the apparatus can be carried out.
- an auto-calibration adjustment is effected fully automatically by way of the same microprocessor which controls the timing and the data- processing resulting from a typical measurement operation on a non-standard process water sample as described above, in order to correct for any drift in the measurement system.
- the measuring cell and its discharge line 105 can be purged between each measuring phase by opening the air shot-off valve 75 to communicate the reagent stripping air feed line 77 with the three-way valve 67, and at the same time operating the three-way valve 67 to communicate the air shut-off valve 77 with the feed line 81 to the measuring cell 83.
- This will allow any residue of the previously analyzed liquid to be discharged from the bottom of the measuring cell by way of the dump valve 107 and waste line 105, following which the dump valve 107 can again be closed ready for the next measuring cycle. This can occur equally between successive sample measuring cycles, or between the two parts of a calibration cycle, or between the It auto-calibration cycle and the nearest preceding or succeeding process water sample measuring cycle.
- the measuring cell 83 In order to guard against overpressure in, or overfilling of, the measuring cell 83, it is provided with an overflow line 125.
- the air supply arrangement referred to above is also illustrated in Figure 1 and comprises an air inlet line 127 supplying air at a pressure in excess of the greatest propulsion air or pneumatic drive air flow.
- the air supply pressure is, for example, 6 bar gauge pressure and is preferably also used, without pressure step-down, to control the various solenoid-operated shut-off valves 75, 91 and 113, and the solenoid- operated three-way valves 29, 51, 55, 67, 97 and 121.
- the solenoid drives a shuttle valve which then controls the application of air at, for example, : bars pressure, to drive the shut-off valve or rotary valve between its two operating positions.
- the air from main air supply line 127 passes through an air filter 129 upstream and downstream of which are pressure gauges 131 and 133, respectively.
- Air passing along line 135 passes through a throttle valve 137, a pressure monitoring transducer 139, a flow meter 141, and a throttle valve 143 to constitute flow A x at a lower pressure which is adequate to drive fluid through the various elements of the apparatus.
- the air flow A. is used at air supply line 21 to the stripper 19, the reagent stripping air line 77, and the demineralized water propulsion air line 89.
- a typical pressure for these uses has been found to be 50 millibars.
- Air flowing along the second air flow line 145 passes by way of a throttle valve 147, a pressure transducer 149, and a flow transducer 151 to form a pneumatic drive air flow A 2 which is used for the reagent propulsion air line 45 and the demineralized water propulsion air line 89 for the cleaning system.
- a throttle valve 147 a pressure transducer 149, and a flow transducer 151 to form a pneumatic drive air flow A 2 which is used for the reagent propulsion air line 45 and the demineralized water propulsion air line 89 for the cleaning system.
- Figure 2 shows the Pourbaix diagram for the process carried out using the above described apparatus.
- the likely pH value of the process water sample to be tested is from 4 to 9, and the arrangement is preferably one in which the pH is low (i.e., in the acidic range) , and the injection of caustic to reduce the acidity may be avoided, so that the passage through the Pourbaix diagram follows the straight line AE of Figure 2 and gives a relatively direct route into the unhatched region beyond (above) the zone 84 in which elemental sulphur may be generated.
- the circuitous route ABCD is the obvious one to be followed in order to avoid deposition of elemental sulphur (S) in the zone 84, by avoiding the zone 84 altogether, as in US- A-4,942,133.
- this circuitous route requires the addition of caustic in order to reduce the acidity to arrive at the point B as a way of avoiding generation of elemental sulphur and the major part of the HS " generation zone 82.
- the point D obtained by the circuitous route could even be chosen to coincide with point E on the Pourbaix diagram as shown in Figure 2, without the route ABCD involving the deposition of elemental sulphur.
- the straight line route AE arrives at a location well into the region between the sulphur and chloride generation regions in a more direct manner and, although some elemental sulphur will be generated, it will be oxidized in the reaction (due to an excess of reagent) so that it can then be readily stripped in the air stripping operation occurring the reactor vessel 33 after the oxidation reaction.
- This allows the overall process time to be considerably reduced, and in practice the resultant measure of chloride concentration is available just over half an hour from the time of collecting the sample.
- the apparatus in accordance with the present invention is self-contained and automatic in operation it can be installed in si tu in the plant and does not require the sample to be conveyed away for subsequent and remote analysis. This possibility of mounting the analysis apparatus on site is enhanced by the auto- calibration and self-cleaning characteristics of the device as described above, all carried out under control of its microprocessor.
- the measurement carried out in the ionometry measuring cell 83 is particularly reliable due to the fact that there is no bromine present after the stripping in the reactor vessel 33, and due to the frequent calibration of the device by means of the auto-calibration feature. Furthermore, the stripping step in stripper column 19 avoids the presence of sulphur-liberating sulphides in the process water being prepared and analyzed, so there is no poisoning of the electrode and hence there will be a stable reliable measurement facility.
- the short analysis time (of the order of 10 minutes) in the ionometry measuring cell 83 avoids degradation of the specific ion selective electrode 86 which could occur if the process were carried out continuously and then electrode 85 and 86 were then spending a long time in contact with an aggressive medium.
- the process of the present invention constitutes a distinct improvement over that of US-A-4, 942, 133 in that the present invention requires only one reagent whereas there were two reagents used in US-A-4, 942, 133.
- the electrical output of the microprocessor- control system which indicates the concentration of chloride ions in the ionometry cell can be compared, again by the microprocessor, with the desired stable reading and any difference between the two values can be used either to increase, or to decrease (as necessary) , the rate of addition of conditioning additive.
- the process thus operates in a closed loop, preferably with a continuous addition of conditioning additive and a batchwise analysis of the chloride content .
- the output of the pH sensor 13 may also be monitored by the microprocessor in order to provide a double check on the effectiveness of the introduction of conditioning additive to maintain corrosiveness within limits.
- the principal control action is in response to the chloride concentration, and monitoring the pH provides a continuous verification of the effectiveness of the chloride concentration-dependent correction of dosage rates.
- the frequency of repeating the analysis cycle may be adjustable, for example to give repeat rates of one every 20 minutes up to one every two hours.
- the shortest repeat rate will be substantially equal to the minimum duration of the analysis sample so that one analysis cycle starts as the preceding one just finishes, although in practice because of the batchwise- treatment using (a) the stripper 19, (b) the reactor vessel 33 and (c) the ionometry cell 83 it is conceivable that the cycles may overlap slightly so that while one sample is being subjected to the ionometry operation in cell 83 the next sample may already enter the stripper 19 to prepare it for introduction to the reactor vessel 33.
- the apparatus of the present invention is able to satisfy various safety standards, and can in particular be Eex approved to certification e (increased safety) , d (flame proof enclosure) , and i (intrinsic safety) .
- Figure 3 shows the layout of the principal components of Figure 1 in which the same reference numerals are used, although there is no illustration of the interconnecting fluid lines.
- the components visible in Figure 3 are those which are mounted on the rear wall of the lower portion of the cabinet but below the shelf 157.
- the components shown above the shelf 157 are the control unit 159 incorporating the microprocessor, within the explosion-proof enclosure 161, and the junction box 163 within its own explosion-proof enclosure 165.
- Figure 3a shows those components which are mounted on the left-hand wall of the cabinet 153, in principle the various water inlet pipes, filters and sensors as well as the stripper column 19, and Figure 3b shows the various components of the air supply which are mounted on the right-hand inner wall of the cabinet 153.
- the cabinet 153 is lockable and is connected to the on-site surfaces simply by the air inlet 127, the water inlet 155, and an electrical switch 167 on the exterior of the cabinet.
- Eex certi ication i Intrinsic safety
- e increased safety
- d flame-proof enclosure
- all electronic components having a spark risk are located within the enclosures 161 and 165 which are explosion-proof. Furthermore, there are no electric motors which could give rise to sparks and could therefore result in explosion risk on the side, as all liquid propulsion is pneumatically-induced.
- Figure 4 is an elevational view of the right-hand side of the cabinet 153 and shows the air inlet 127 and the main switch 167 as well as the main electrical connector box 169 on the outside of the cabinet.
- Figure 5 shows a typical plot, obtained in practice, of the ionometry cell output signal during a succession of batchwise measuring cycles with a repetition frequency of 12 minutes.
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