Process outlet temperature in an aerial cooler can be controlled by louvers, fan variable speed drives, blade pitch or recirculation of process fluid. As the…
Coalescing of the small water drops dispersed in the crude can be accomplished by subjecting the water-in-oil emulsion to a high-voltage electrical field. When a…
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…
For most multi-well situations horizontal treaters are normally required. Figure 6-10 shows a typical design of a horizontal treater. Flow enters the front section of…
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…
If the flow rate of the inlet stream is known in moles per day then the number of moles per day of gas flow can…
Separator operation can be adversely affected by an accumulation of paraffin. Coalescing plates in the liquid section and mesh pad mist extractors in the gas…
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 process of coalescence in oil treating systems is time dependent. In dispersions of two immiscible liquids, immediate coalescence seldom occurs when two droplets collide.…
This property of a fluid indicates its resistance to flow. It is a dynamic property, in that it can be measured only when the fluid…