Oil and gas refining

KEY BENEFITS

  • High performance, small package
  • Reliable operation and low maintenance
  • Easy to install, easy to use

The best CycloClean™ DeOiler system you will ever use

While it’s true that oil and water don’t mix, finding an effective and efficient system to separate the two liquids is not so easy. That is where the KREBS CycloClean™ DeOiler Vessel steps in. Compact, consistent and incredibly low-maintenance, this proven hydrocyclone system removes hydrocarbons, regardless of flow rate.

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WHAT WE OFFER

Go with the flow - this DeOiler Cyclone Vessel does the work for you

Known for years as the KREBS CycloClean®, our DeOiler Vessel delivers efficient solutions that fit your oily water separation applications. We offer reliable oil separation performance and our units are not affected by the debris build-up that can occur with other systems. They require little to no adjustment in the field, allowing your operator to set it and forget it.

Pure and clean oil and water separation

The KREBS DeOiler Vessel systems use numerous deoiling hydrocyclones inside a vessel or manifold. Unlike plate-pack separators, the KREBS system relies on centrifugal forces rather than gravitational forces for separation. In fact, the centrifugal force generated inside the vortex of a single hydrocyclone can reach 1,000 times the force of gravity. With such force, fine oil droplets down to 10 microns will separate.

Newest generation

FLSmidth offers the latest generation in deoiling hydrocyclone technology: Our L40gMAX® offers a unique inlet geometry, which helps minimise turbulence and improves separation efficiency at higher capacities. The result is optimal performance. 

How it works

A tangential feed of oily water enters each cyclone through a unique involute inlet, where the solution begins to spin. As the mixture flows through each cyclone, it accelerates, increasing the centrifugal force and sending the lighter oil to the hydrocyclone’s centre for removal through the overflow. Cleaned water exits through the underflow. 

The KREBS DeOiler Vessel system of hydrocyclones will treat oily water with oil droplets below 15 microns, where competitors’ systems can only treat oil droplets from 20 to 50 microns.