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Merus offers lasting solutions against pipe corrosion
01 June 2005
Merus, one of Europe’s leading anti-corrosion and scale-busting companies, is targeting GCC oil producing countries with its revolutionary technology, which it claims can save the petrochemical industry billions of dollars a year.
The technology, which made its regional debut at the Chemtex and Corrosion Middle East Fair, held last September, uses artificially generated molecular oscillations in liquids to prevent the build-up of rust or scale, and stops dissolved particles from precipitating and blocking pipes.
“Although its applications were developed for water-based industries, it works just as effectively in the petrochemical sector,” says Tarek El-Shawaf, general manager, Egyptian Company for Trading and Technology, the local representative for the German manufacturer.
“The oscillations allow fluids of all types to be treated. Crude oil contains a certain quantity of dissolved paraffin, in addition to many other constituents. However, when oil is extracted, both its pressure and temperature drop making it less possible to bind the paraffin, which starts to precipitate.
“The precipitated paraffin is deposited on the pipe walls and, unless suitable measures are taken, this results in clogging of the pipelines. Conventional methods of cleaning the pipes are very expensive. Our technology is not only less costly it is also ecologically beneficial,” he says.
“Although anti-corrosion and descaling costs for the Middle East are unavailable, it has been estimated, by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers that in the US alone, corrosion costs in the industry account for a whopping $276 billion per year,” he adds.
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