The back pressure at production train can affect the relief valve’s capacity or the relief valve’s set pressure. The capacity of a relief valve is…
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Balanced type relief valves consist of spring-loaded valves which contain a bellows arrangement to keep back-pressure from affecting the set point. The picture above shows…
The figure above shows different arrangements of the shells, tubes and baffles in heat exchangers according to TEMA standard classifications. The first letter of the…
An amount of time is needed to assure that the liquid and gas reach equilibrium at separator. The time is defined as “retention time” or…
A pressure vessel may fail because of more than one condition different scenarios. A low pressure separator vessel may be subject to blocked discharge, gas…
There are three basic types of shell-and-tube heat exchangers: fixed tube sheet, floating head, and U-tube. The list below summarizes the comparison between these three…
The parallel plate interceptor (PPI) is the early form of a plate coalescer. The basic design of parallel plate interceptor is a series of plates…
A vortex set is used to disperse gas bubbles in the stream on dispersed gas units. The figure above shows a dispersed gas units with…
The SP Pack separator is developed by Paragon Engineering Services, this separator creates turbulent flow by forcing the water to flow through a serpentine pipe…
Dissolved gas unit allows the water and gas saturation in a contactor. A typical Dissolved gas unit works on 20 to 40 psig contact pressure,…