Cleaning and Degreasing
Solutions for Refining
Efficient and effective chemical solutions to solve refining and processes issues
You Can’t Afford a Slow Down
As slurry enters your refinery, is refined, and then transported out across the country, cleanliness plays an integral role in each operation. Not only do fouled pipelines and equipment impact product quality, but also the efficiency of your operations. To keep your operations at peak performance, you need fast, effective chemistry.
Effective, Customized Solutions At Every Step
Combining science & service for unparalleled solutions
Differentiating your services means finding new efficiencies in everything you do. We can help you do that. At Guardian, our field experts conduct on-site visits to get to the heart of the issues that are impeding your work. From separation, conversion, treating, and even transport, we can create customized solutions that effectively minimize inefficiencies from start to finish.
Solutions
Cleaning & Degreasing
Oil & Gas Production Enhancement
Scavengers & Degreasers
Metal Prep
In preparing metal components for return to the field, efficacy and safety are of top concern. Parts washers and hot tanks require customized solutions to meet your needs. Our chemical solutions include innovative blends of high-performance surfactants, alkalinity boosters, water conditioning agents, and corrosion inhibitors. We craft solutions to meet your unique challenges and can also assist with application and disposal
Water Treatment
Water is a critical part of many production systems. We offer an extensive line of water treatment solutions designed for maximum efficiency of your cooling towers and heating systems that will ensure both the comfort of everyone on your team and product quality is maintained.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
It’s more important than ever to ensure you’re taking steps to protect the health and well-being of your workers because viruses, bacteria, and fungi can stay on surfaces from hours to days. Guardian’s wide variety of hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectant chemicals are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
There’s No Challenge We Won’t Tackle
At Guardian Chemicals, we wield our decades of industry expertise, relentless pursuit of innovation, and incomparable commitment to service to transform your business.
Our solutions help reduce operational inefficiencies at every step; from reducing the time needed for regular cleanings, shutdowns and turnarounds to ensuring your storage and transportation equipment pass inspection. And we do so by using our laboratory resources to create customized solutions.
Some of these include:
- Formulations for the removal of iron sulphide that reduces system fouling and under deposit corrosion, without releasing hydrogen sulphide from the complex
- Solutions to tackle issues related to the accumulation of sand
- Tank cleaning and degassing chemistry that brings H2S and LEL down before entry
Related: the BrightShield chemical cleaning program, degassing and H₂S scavengers and what degassing is and when you need it.
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Refining and Processing
Cleaning and degassing chemistry for exchangers, vessels, towers and amine units, production enhancement and treating chemistry, hydrogen sulphide and mercaptan scavenging, metal preparation for maintenance, water treatment for cooling and steam systems, and plant sanitation chemistry.
By identifying the deposit, screening chemistry against it in the lab, then circulating or soaking under conditions matched to the foulant and the metallurgy. Where it works, the unit is back in service far faster than mechanical cleaning allows, and our case work includes exchangers with flow restored well above the original target.
Converting the sulphide, stripping hydrocarbon vapour and reducing benzene and mercaptans to levels that permit entry, in a defined sequence with monitoring at each step. Chemical decontamination shortens the time to safe entry compared with ventilation alone, which is normally the constraint on the critical path.
Keep it wet and convert it chemically before the vessel is opened. Dry iron sulphide ignites in air, and the incidents happen during opening rather than during the clean. Treating it in place is a planning decision made before the outage, not a reaction during it.
Heat stable salts, hydrocarbon carryover, degradation products and particulate, which together cause foaming, corrosion and reduced circulation capacity. Cleaning the system and addressing the source of the contamination both matter, because a cleaned unit that keeps receiving carryover fouls again on the same schedule.
Contamination, most often hydrocarbon carryover, degradation products or particulate acting as foam stabilisers. Foam causes amine carryover and capacity loss. A defoamer controls the symptom at low dose while the source is found, but running permanently on defoamer to mask carryover is expensive and hides a real problem.
Through our BrightShield process. An audit establishes the system history, the baseline and the technical objectives with KPIs. The lab fingerprints the foulant. Candidate chemistries are bench screened against it with the incumbent as a comparison. Then the proposal, on-site support during application, and a validation report.
Yes, and that is the usual arrangement. We supply the chemistry, the procedure and the conditions, and support the work on site alongside whichever applicator you use. The audit form asks who your preferred applicator is precisely because that relationship is already in place.
A validation report measuring the result against the KPIs set at the start, plus the lab analyses that informed the chemistry selection. Reporting against agreed measures is what makes the next turnaround easier to plan and easier to justify.
Dare to do differently when you have a chemical partner in your corner.
