Improving vapour recovery

Jan Seltmann, Technical Director at CarboVac Vostock explains the importance of effective vapour recovery systems.

Like any other part of the world the countries of the FSU have their own specificities and business culture. To be successful in this part of the world it is essential to know and understand the business mentality and to speak the language of the people in the region. French manufacturer of vapour recovery units, CarboVac, has recently opened its new office in Moscow to optimally support customers in the FSU. CarboVac Vostok is managed by a young, flexible and 100 percent Russian speaking team of engineers with many years of experience in the field of vapour recovery, obtained during their working period at the mother company in France. CarboVac participates at the major trade shows and conferences to build up and maintain a good network for the exchange of information and know-how with engineering companies and specialist institutes in the FSU.

CarboVac Vostok’s commercial director Vitaliy Sysoy has already been involved in several projects in the FSU and will continue to do so now from close range and in good co-operation with CarboVac’s existing and future business partners in the FSU. CarboVac Vostok will serve its customers, engineering companies and EPC contractors in the FSU by making feasibility studies, engineering studies and supply of equipment and after sales services.

CarboVac offers the most cost effective and energy efficient vapour recovery system worldwide and is able to comply with any emission regulations. The CarboVac Vapour Recovery Systems is fully comply with the Russian standards, GOST certified and have the Rostechnodzar permit for operation in the Russian Federation. The equipment is suitable for operation in the extreme cold regions of the FSU without losing its famous simplicity and ease of operation. All components of the system, such as the dry screw vacuum pump, are certified for operation at temperatures of -40°C without insulation, ensuring good accessibility for maintenance of the equipment.

Recent projects executed by CarboVac in the FSU are the supply of a vapour recovery system on the truck facility of Kyzil Orda at the beginning of 2009 in Kazakhstan for the recovery of crude oil vapours from truck loading and storage tank breathing. CarboVac has also been involved in the recovery of vapours from the loading of gasoline at the marine loading terminal of Transneft at Novorossiysk on the black sea, the supply of a vapour recovery system for an EPC contractor and supplier of rail loading facilities for the refinery of Kirishi. A contract for the treatment of crude oil vapours from Transneft’s new marine loading facility at the end of the trans-Siberian oil Pipeline at Kosmino (Eastern Siberia) was one of the largest vapour recovery units worldwide using dry screw vacuum pumps. The dry vapour recovery technology used by CarboVac will reduce the power consumption of the facility by as much as 4,000,000 kWh annually compared with other vapour treatment technologies.