Heat exchangers used in gas production facilities are shell-and-tube, double-pipe, plate-and-frame, bath-type, forced-air, or direct-fired. In this chapter we will discuss the basic concepts for…
The relief header is a system of piping connecting the outlets of all the relief valves into a common pipe or header that goes to…
Heat-exchanger tubes should not be confused with steel pipe or other types of pipe that are extruded to steel pipe sizes. The outside diameter of…
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…
The Bernoulli equation is a way of describing how the energy of a fluid changes along its path. It says that the sum of the…
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…
The process of coalescence in oil treating systems is time dependent. In dispersions of two immiscible liquids, immediate coalescence seldom occurs when two droplets collide.…
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…
Foam at the interface may occur when gas bubbles are liberated from the liquid. This foam can be stabilized with the addition of chemicals at…
The skim pile is a type of disposal pile. As shown in Figure 7-18, flow through the multiple series of baffle plates creates zones of…