The question always comes up of which fluid to put in the tubes and which fluid to put in the shell. Consider placing a fluid…
SulfaTreat process is similar to the iron sponge process. It uses a patented proprietary mixture of ferric oxide and triferric oxide to react with H2O…
Most companies have a detailed general specification for the construction of pressure vessels, which defines the overall quality of fabrication required and addresses specific items…
Figure 5-3 shows an alternate configuration known as a “bucket and weir” design. This design eliminates the need for a liquid interface controller. Both the…
Removing water from crude oil often requires additional processing beyond gravitational separation. In selecting a treating system, several factors should be considered to determine the…
It is important to be able to estimate vessel weights, since most cost estimating procedures start with the weight of the vessel. The vessel weight,…
For an emulsion to exist there must be two mutually immiscible liquids, an emulsifying agent, and sufficient agitation to disperse the discontinuous phase into the…
In order to develop a treater design procedure, the water droplet size to be used in the settling equation to achieve a given outlet water…
This is not strictly a cut but consists of all the light material in the crude absorbed into the total overhead distillate from the crude…
It should be clear from the description of LTX units that the lower pressure separator in an LTX unit is a simple form of cold-feed…