As we can see on the schematic, the first stage of Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) system is a strainer/gas eliminator. The strainer is needed to…
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The tube inside flame arrestor will prevent a vent flame traveling back into the tank as we can see in the figure above. The common…
Crude oil outputted from the production separator still contain some water, before it goes to the storage the water-oil emulsion must be broken to reduce…
High initial pressure is needed to obtain maximum liquid output in production separator. The incoming liquid stream may contains many light components. These light components…
Wire mesh mist extractor is made of stainless steel wire which form a woven mats wrapped into cylinder pack. The working principle is simple, liquid…
There are two main types of inlet diverter, baffle plates and centrifugal diverter. Baffle plate is simply a plate to change the liquid direction and…
A scrubber separator is actually a two-phase separator with a small liquid loading. This kind of separator is used to recover liquid from the production…
In case of high gas separation, filter separator can be used to solve the problem. In the figure above you can see filter separator schematic…
In case of very low liquid rate separation, two-barrel separator is commonly used to solve the problem. The basic schematic of two-barrel separator is shown…
The figure above showed a typical spherical separator schematic. The spherical separator had the same working principle as vertical separator; the main difference is the…