Process Technology Division—Ideas for the Future at Work Today

A leader in processing refinery spent caustics at its USA processing plants for chemicals recovery for over 50 years, Merichem Company is now also recognized worldwide for its expertise and technologies for treating hydrocarbon streams and for processing spent caustics within the refinery.

• Over 25 years experience worldwide licensing more than 650 hydrocarbon treating systems using caustic, amine and water.
• Over 150 hydrocarbon treating systems have been supplied as modularized units from our Houston, Texas engineering and fabrication facility.
• Our FIBER-FILM™ Contactor non-dispersive mass transfer technology has been licensed and chosen by more than 72% of worldwide refineries that have added caustic treating systems during the last 19 years.
• Full-service engineering and fabrication services from Houston as well as abroad.
• Each unit is custom-designed to the client’s specifications and standards.
• ISO 9000 registered since 1994.
• Thirty-nine foreign representative offices in 53 countries are in constant contact with regional refinery and petrochemical businesses.
• Superior worldwide technical service support backed by a dedicated research center located in Houston.
• Expertise in all aspects of plant spent caustic management.

Since 1974, Merichem's Process Technology Division has been providing technologies to the hydrocarbon process industry. The most widely applied technologies employ the FIBER-FILM™ Contactor, which is a mass transfer device consisting of a retaining cylinder packed with proprietary fibers. This revolutionary system essentially eliminates the problems associated with conventional dispersive mass transfer methods.

The FIBER- FILM™ Contactor process is a non-dispersive method of contacting immiscible fluids without forming stable emulsions which are the source of most difficulties inherent in dispersive treating. This unique technology solves a wide range of refinery and petrochemical plant hydrocarbon treating problems:

• The FIBER-FILM™ Contactor is applied in caustic, amine, acid and water treating processes to remove hydrocarbon contaminants such as acid gases, sulfur, neutral and basic compounds.
• The FIBER-FILM™ Contactor process improves mass transfer efficiency and minimizes aqueous phase carryover.
• FIBER-FILM™ Contactor technology requires shorter settling times enabling the use of much smaller processing vessels saving valuable plant space and reducing capital expenditures.

Whether applied to treaters utilizing caustic, acid, amine, or water, FIBER-FILM™ Contactor technology results in a highly efficient and more profitable processing operation.