Compact/Inline Separation of Phases
Enhanced gravity separation for compact process plants
A static swirl element induces a spin on the incoming fluid stream, resulting in the formation of a light phase core (e.g. gas or oil) surrounded by the heavier phase. The core is extracted through a separate outlet nozzle. Flow split control between the 2 outlets allows optimisation of the purity of the separated phases. This ensures that a minimum amount of gas remains in the liquid phase, or vice versa, – thus minimizing gas carry-under or liquid carry-over – or a minimum amount of oil remains in the water phase, or vice versa. Likewise, solids may be extracted from a multiphase gas/liquid feedstream.
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Areas of Application
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Oil & gas production facilities with space and weight constraints, such as offshore platforms and subsea systems, or for debottlenecking/retrofitting in late field life or for capacity upgrades in brownfields.
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Certifications
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Designed to pipe design code rather than pressure vessel code, thus requirements for inspection intervals are more relaxed.
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Capabilities
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Significant reduction in weight and deck space, potentially allowing smaller FPSOs, platforms etc.
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Cost
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Significant reduction of capital and operating costs (10-30%).
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Flexible Design
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Lifespan extension of brownfields where and when high gas and water rates restrict oil production; debottlenecking is achieved by retrofitting with inline separator(s) for gas/liquid and/or liquid/liquid.
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Subsea Production
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Enabler for ultra-deepwater processing allowing re-injection of excess gas or water, subsea pumping and lifting etc.
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