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Scientific Review. Technical science
ISSN 2500-0799
ПИ №ФС77-57440

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PERSPECTIVE METHODS OF DIESEL FUEL REFINEMENT FROM WATER AND MECHANICAL IMPURITIES

Yablokova M.A. 1 Ponomarenko E.A. 1
1 Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)
The review of the modern industrial and experimental-industrial technologies of diesel fuel refinement from emulsified and dissolved water, as well as from solid insoluble particles is performed. The traditional methods of destabilization of the emulsions: gravity, centrifugal, electrical, chemical, coalescent methods are considered as well as modern complex technologies, including filtering of diesel fuel through porous polymer materials with new properties. On the basis of comparative analysis of various methods of diesel fuel refinement technologies of the domestic firm «DITO» (Moscow) and the canadian firm «FILTERVAK» were recognized as the most effective. The «DITO» technology involves the heating of fuel, its separation and homogenization under the action of centrifugal forces in the vortex apparatus and the subsequent filtration and stabilization. The method of «FILTERVAK» is a multi-stage purification system with the use of preliminary strainer-filter, input filter of cartridge or basket type, coalescent separators, filters of fine purification and regenerating filters if it is necessary.