Spray Nozzles for
the Petroleum & Petrochemical Industries

Chemical Spray Injection Applications

• Inject various reactants, scavengers, inhibitors, or other chemicals throughout many processes.
• Use water wash injection nozzles at various points in refining crude oil into its component fractions.
• BETE can design a custom injection lance specific to your application, ensuring proper fabrication, installation, and operation.

Gas Scrubbing Applications

• Scrubber nozzles remove pollutants and other chemical contaminants from process gases, liquids, and equipment.
• Scrubbers also remove acids from chemical processing off-gases.
• BETE offers nozzles for a wide variety of scrubbing systems.
  • Open Towers
  • Packed Towers
  • Venturi Scrubbers
  • NOX Removal (SCR/SNCR)

Gas Cooling Applications

• Nozzles for gas cooling or quenching in various petrochemical applications create stable conditions for downstream plant components’ safe and efficient operation.

Common applications

• • Cooling process gases prior to scrubber/baghouses
  • Catalyst reformer gas cooling
  • Cooling combustion exhaust gases
  • FGD quenching

Tank Cleaning Applications

• Tank cleaning is essential, especially when removing harsh chemicals and soils, which can be time-consuming and expensive without the correct solution.
• Optimize cleaning with BETE’s stationary, free-spinning rotational, and controlled rotational tank cleaning nozzles in the refining process:

• • Rail Cars
  • Storage Tanks
  • Reactors
  • Process Vessels

Vacuum Distillation Applications

• The petroleum industry uses vacuum distillation in many parts of the refining process to separate hydrocarbon fractions.
• Use nozzles to atomize the process liquid, increasing its exposed surface area to increase evaporation and separation efficiency.
• In vacuum towers, where the gas side pressure drop must be low, packing is often used instead of trays.
  • Nozzles uniformly wet the packing, over which the gas flows and contacts the liquid

Evaporative Disposal Applications

• Spray wastewater to increase evaporation efficiency.

Waste Management Applications

• Injection of waste or by-products into an incinerator.
• Fine atomization is required to maximize surface area for these reactions.

Spray nozzles provide personnel and system protection throughout production and distribution from offshore drilling platforms to refining to storage tanks.

BETE offers nozzles for open-type fire protection systems:

• Deluge Fire Protection
• Water Mist
• Off Shore Fire Suppression
• Water Wall
• Toxic Gas Mitigation
• • • The fine mist of water sprays can absorb toxic gases in the event of a leak.

• Apply heat to various processes, including FCC re-generators to heat catalyst by injecting light oil during start-up.
• Also used to control the rate of cooling during a shutdown.
• Fine atomization is a requirement for an efficient burn.

• DUR O LOK couplings are all-purpose lightweight connectors designed to replace standard pipe flanges.
  • Compact and lightweight design can reduce the length and outside diameter by 30%-50% and weight by 60%-90% compared to standard flanges.
  • Complete port design features a non-restrictive, smooth inner bore that reduces pressure drop.

• Atomize crude oil feed using steam and inject into the riser where it reacts with powdered catalyst.
• Two-phase flow with high particulate count requires sizeable free passage and homogenous mixing.