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Oil Water Separator
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Amit Sahu,
If there are any useful innovations in the last 50 or so years, I've been unable to find them (and as part of an Expert Witness job, I had to search very carefully in that space a couple of months ago).
A lot of people are flogging various centrifugal products that are touted as the best thing ever to reduce footprint and cost. Beware of them. They all work in a very narrow Weber Number range--in that range they are really great, but a very small increment outside that range and they don't work at all. I've found centrifugal liquid/liquid separators to be useful in carefully controlled conditions (e.g., inside a plant with a capable process control computer), but not in the blood-guts-feathers world of upstream. In upstream you are better off using something like:
[bold]David Simpson, PE[/bold]
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
If there are any useful innovations in the last 50 or so years, I've been unable to find them (and as part of an Expert Witness job, I had to search very carefully in that space a couple of months ago).
A lot of people are flogging various centrifugal products that are touted as the best thing ever to reduce footprint and cost. Beware of them. They all work in a very narrow Weber Number range--in that range they are really great, but a very small increment outside that range and they don't work at all. I've found centrifugal liquid/liquid separators to be useful in carefully controlled conditions (e.g., inside a plant with a capable process control computer), but not in the blood-guts-feathers world of upstream. In upstream you are better off using something like:
[bold]David Simpson, PE[/bold]
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
LittleInch
Petroleum
Amit,
what sort of pressure and oil/ water ratio / flow rates are you talking about?
High pressure three phase stuff like Dave is describing or oily water atmospheric separation?
Big difference.
Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.
what sort of pressure and oil/ water ratio / flow rates are you talking about?
High pressure three phase stuff like Dave is describing or oily water atmospheric separation?
Big difference.
Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.
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