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…
Dissolved gas designs take a portion of the treated water effluent and saturate the water with natural gas in a contactor. The higher the pressure…
It is also necessary to control the gas/liquid interface or the oil/water interface in process equipment. This is done with a level controller and liquid…
Flow regimes describe the nature of fluid flow. There are two basic flow regimes for flow of a single-phase fluid: laminar flow and turbulent flow.…
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…
In addition to the type description code there is also a shorthand that is used for classifying heat exchangers. The first element of the shorthand…
Knowledge of the temperature and pressure of a gas stream at the wellhead is important for determining whether hydrate formation can be expected when the…
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…
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…
Mist extractors can be made of wire mesh, vanes, centrifugal force devices, or packing. Wire mesh pads (Figure 4-10) are made of finely woven mats…