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We are currently experiencing continued plugging of our refinery fuel gas control valves, strainers and burners. We went through a re-org 3 years ago where one of reformers was brought down. Since then, we have seen an increase of chloride salt contaminants to our fuel system from our other reformer. We currently run 2 molecular sieves in series on or hydrogen header. I proposed to increase heater reliability and reduce chloride salt contaminants to take second mole sieve and pipe the fuel gas header to it. This would of course be after testing hydrogen chloride content with only one sieve in service and projecting those results on compressor reliability from our maintenance group. If no real future damage can be projected and current single phase mole sieve can handle hydrogen system, would a mole sieve for the fuel gas be an adequate route since the vessel is already there and would only require a piping mod?