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  1. Scipio

    Rag layer recycle pump

    I've had a murderous little service come up I have a few manufacturer's working on, thought I'd see if anyone has any added suggestions; Basic service is a pump which serves to maintain a minimum flow in a free-water knockout at the inlet of a tarsands bitumen facility. The pump itself...
  2. Scipio

    PD pump discharge PSVs

    Here's a little repeating nuisance problem that I keep seeing, thought I'd throw it out in case someone here's come up with a practical solution; On a lot of gas wellsite facilities involving compression, produced water and hydrocarbon condensates (C5+) are knocked out of the gas stream prior...
  3. Scipio

    Pipeline ESDV's

    Pipeline ESDV's should not be closed to double as pig receivers *sigh*
  4. Scipio

    Galvanizing in H2S environment

    I've got one of those 'depends on who you ask' type questions. There's been a few instances where I've installed equipment in facilities processing sour natural gas, anywhere from 50 ppm up to 30% H2S, and pressures upwards of 2200 psig. Some equipment (like fin-fan coolers) and a lot of...
  5. Scipio

    Keeping two parallel recip pumps out of synch phase

    Wondering if anyone's got an idea how to keep two hydraulic diaphragm style pumps, running in parallel, out of synchronous phase. Basically I've got one existing unit in service (drawing sour condensate off an inlet separator and injecting it downstream of a gathering compressor), but we've...
  6. Scipio

    Hot tapping - bad experiences?

    I've got a project coming up involving a size-on-size tie in to a high pressure (ANSI 900# line class) natural gas pipeline. I'm looking at three or four ways of doing it, probably one of the cleanest would be hot-tapping - assuming I figure out a way to bring the operating pressure in the...

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