Direct-fired combustion equipment is that in which the flame and/or products of combustion are used to achieve the desired result by radiation and convection. Common…
To maintain pressure on a separator, a liquid seal must be effected in the lower portion of the vessel. This liquid seal prevents loss of…
Many times the designer is given the mole fraction of each component in the feed stream but is not given the mole flow rate 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…
A gas-processing plant, is designed to recover ethane, propane, butane, and other natural gas liquids from the gas stream. A condensate stabilizer also recovers some…
In specifying the size of a treater, it is necessary to determine the diameter (d), length or height of the coalescing section (Leff or h),…
The first form of a plate coalescer was the parallel plate interceptor (PPI). This involved installing a series of plates parallel to the longitudinal axis…
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…
Figure 2-5 deals with a simple single-stage process. That is, the fluids are flashed in an initial separator and then the liquids from that separator…
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…