A bed of random packing typically consists of a bed support (typically a gas injection support plate) upon which pieces of packing material are randomly…
In the gravity settling section the liquid drops will settle at a velocity determined by equating the gravity force on the drop with the drag…
In producing operations it is often necessary to handle waste water that may include water produced with crude oil, rain water, and washdown water. The…
In many refineries most of theC4’s and lighter are removed from the atmospheric column overhead distillate in the first column of the light end unit.…
Hydrocyclone separators, sometimes called enhanced gravity separators, use centrifugal force to remove oil droplets from oily water. As shown in Figure 7-16, static hydrocyclone separator…
Some treaters use an electrode section. Figure 6-11 illustrates a typical design of a horizontal electrostatic treater. The flow path in an electrostatic treater is…
A weir system separator is a device that separates a mixture of oil, water, and gas into its individual components. It is commonly used in…
The iron sponge process uses the chemical reaction of ferric oxide with H2S to sweeten gas streams. This process is applied to gases with low…
The principal items of construction that should be present in a good liquid-gas separator are the same regardless of the over-al1 shape or configuration of…
In dispersed gas units gas bubbles are dispersed in the total stream either by the use of an inductor device or by a vortex set…