Crud Processing Improvements Using ACORGA® CB 1000 Crud Busting Reagent

FIGURE 3:
TSS of Standard Filter Press and
CRUD BUSTER Process

Visually it is easy to see that the final organic product using the crud buster process than the process using only
returned to the circuit post clay treatment was much cleaner mechanical separation.

Interfacial Tension (IFT)

Mechanical rupturing of crud often results in surface active
species associated with crud being transferred to the organic,
lowering the IFT and organic quality. This is in addition to
the problem of solids often being redistributed.
Figure 4 shows the interfacial tension of various organic
samples from operating plants. Traditional mechanical
rupturing processes return organic with a lower IFT than
the circuit organic. This reduction in organic IFT is true for
operations using plate and frame filter presses or centrifuges.
The figure also shows that both the plant organic and crud
processed organic have the potential to be of higher quality
with efficient clay treatment. Without clay treatment of the
recovered organic, the associated surface active species from
the crud are often returned to the circuit.

40
Plant Organic
Recovered Organic from Crud
35.3 34.9 Clay Treated Organic
34.6
Interfacial Tension (dynes/cm)

35 34.4

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30 29.1 29.3 29.2

27.6
27 26.8

25

22.3
FIGURE 4:
IFT of Circuit Organic, Recovered
20 Organic, and Clay Treated Organic
Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3 Sample 4

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