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Pignat company signs two agreements of licenses with the French Institute of petroleum

31/10/2005

on October 31, 2005

Pignat, French company devoted to the construction of agents of work in chemical engineering and in engineering of the procedures, finishes to sign two agreements of licences with the French Institute of the Oil. These agreements will allow to launch to the market Desaltop -a pilot unit of desalado of gross oil- and Topcont -a pilot unit of continuous distillation of gross oil-. It treats of procedures known and recognised, and the company Pignat is able to realise these pilot units for gross oil.

These pilot installations, that have to see with two fundamental operations inside the chain of oil exploitation, have been especially elaborated to prepare cuttings allocated to the studies of procedures (hidrotratamiento, cracking, reforming, etc) splitting of a wide spectrum of gross oil (API 16 to 40). By what these cuttings have comparable qualities with which obtain of industrial form.

Thanks to the procedures of wash with water, tuned by the company Pignat, the water decants with physical means, under an electrical potential, that help to the fine drops of water to agglomerate . The pilot unit of desalado Desaltop will recess the concentration of NACL of a gross oil that it can contain roughly 10.000 pounds per 1.000 barrels to less than 10 pounds per 1 000 barrels.

The pilot unit of distilled of oil Topcont it can produce volumes of cutting in the order of the hundred of kilos (petrol, diesel, VGO, neutral, residue) with criteria of comparable quality with the industrial units for gross heavy.