Originally Posted by
Lodiev
If your plant is designed correctly and u make sure that all vessels are stress relieved and that all piping used are of hi carbon steel and the welding contractor uses the correct welding materials, u do not have to worry about SCC. This will take about 60 years to really have a serious risk an by that time the plant will either be DE-commissioned or the vessels and piping will have been replaced as a safety measure.
Coming back to water in ammonia plants. This have always been a bad thing as mentioned above by all.
To remove water is also the easy as mentioned above and these systems can be build by yourself for a fraction of the cost as in buying one.
Lonestar haze the results of not removing water as his plant haze reached critical state as the water have bonded with the oil creating a emulsion. by removing the water now he can only stop the forming of emulsions, but now he have to remove the emulsion from his plant, and this is a tricky one.