The Microbubble Infusion Unit (MiFU™)

The Microbubble Infusion Unit (MiFU™) is a compact, stand-alone and retrofittable technology that infuses produced water with gas using patented equipment and methodology to enhance an asset’s existing oil-water and fine solids-water separation performance.

MiFU™ can be retrospectively deployed at both new and existing production facilities, to improved OIW quality and PWRI performance. Where production is bottlenecked due to produced water volumes the MiFU will improve separation performance to allow more production to be processed.

The MiFU™ can uniquely produce and deploy dissolved gas and induced gas microbubbles, or even a combination of both methods at the same time. The unit produces the optimum flotation gas quantity and quality based on the clients’ process requirements with minimal disruption to the process, such that the maximum separation efficiency can be achieved.

The application technique allows different microbubble size ranges to be deployed at a single or multiple injection points into a single existing separation vessel. Additionally, the technique can simultaneously add microbubble gas flotation to multiple vessels or flowlines as required to achieve the maximum separation efficiency.  

The application is controlled automatically and unlike conventional microbubble gas flotation applications the MiFU application is unaffected by process system slugging or vessel movement (FPSO).