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…
In every system substances that show up as “oil” in the laboratory test procedure will be dissolved in the water. This is especially true where…
Tube holes cannot be drilled very close together, since this may structually weaken the tube sheet. The shortest distance between two adjacent tube holes is…
It is possible to use a coalescing media to promote coalescence of the water droplets. These media provide large surface area upon which water droplets…
Head Bernoulli is a term that refers to the total energy of a fluid at a given point in a steady flow system. It consists…
This is the bottom product from the vacuum distillation unit. Just as in the case of the atmospheric residue it has several options for its…
The simplest form of primary treating equipment is a settling (skim) tank or vessel. These items are normally designed to provide long residence times during…
To assure that the liquid and gas reach equilibrium at separator pressure a certain liquid storage is required. This is defined as “retention time” or…
Shell-and-tube exchangers contain several types of baffles to help direct the flow of both tube-side and shell-side fluids. Pass partition baffles force the fluid to…
The major cause of foam in crude oil is the appearance of impurities, other than water, which are impractical to remove before the stream reaches…