A three phase separator is to be designed for production rate of 200kg/s of hydrocarbons and 40kg/s water.

The hydrocarbon composition is taken from McCains black oil reservoir fluid study. At stock tank conditions this will yield about 110,000bbl/day. The inlet three- phase separator is to operate at 20bar and 350K. the separator is to be designed to separate 100micron oil droplets in the gas phase, 250 micron water droplets from the oil phase and 250 micron oil droplets from the water phase. The input values are summarized below:

Flow properties
qo qw qg P T gas viscosity oil viscosity water viscosity g w o 110000 40 44.74817038 2 350 0.02 10 1 17.46 974.6 767 bopd kg/s kg/s bara K cp cp cp kg/m 3 kg/m 3 kg/m
3

0.202414 0.041042 2.562896 200000 0.00002 0.01 0.001

m /sec m /sec m /sec pa pas pas pas

3 3

physical constants and fixed variables

Lc Lweir hNOR tNOR hs S E tc Lh Fa Fc Fh s TH(Min) Ts(min) hvdm hvdo 1 0.01 0.1 30 0.05 95000000 0.85 0.0015875 1 1.09 5 3 7850 10 5 Di-0.1 Di-0.2 m m m secs m pa

$/kg kg/m3 600 300 sec sec

Design Parameters
tro trw dog dow dwo 10 10 100 250 250 min min micron micron micron 600 600 0.0001 0.00025 0.00025 sec sec m m m

Initial guess of design variables

Le Di hg hNIL Le/Di 10 4 1 1 2.5 m m m m

Important equations Gas velocity

1) Hold up volume = 0.202414*600 2.024m 2) Surge Volume =300*0.202414 = 1.012m
3 3

2) Substituting

)(

)(

ANLL = 6.283m2 Also 3)

Substituting into equation 1

( Vg=0.408m/s

6)

( =0.182m )

7)

( = 0.381m )

8)

( = 0.527m )

9)

((

) )

= 1.249m 10) ( = 1.249m

11)
( )

6.283

= 6.448m2 ( )( ) ( )

Using Least square numerical method, hHLL is found from eq 11b hHLL = 2.041m

11b)

( (

) )

( ( =6.879m2
Same as above hHLL = 2.149m

) )

11c)

= 2.1m 11d) ( hHLL = 2.149m 11e) ( = 6.878m )( ) ( ) )

12)

( (

) )

AHHLL 7.475m
Using least square method, hHHLL =2.299m

12b) hHHLL = 2.149+0.1 =2.249m

12c) 12d)

( ( AHHLL = 7.475m2 )(

) ) ( )

13)

( Substituting ANIL = 2.467m2 14) Substituting ALLL= 6.201m2 (

)(

hLLL is found using least square method to be = 1.979m

14b)

( Substituting =

( ( )

ALLL= 5.687m2 hLLL is found using least square method to be = 1.851m 14c) hLLL = 2-0.1 = 1.900m 14d) hLLL= 1.851m
14e)

)(

Substituting ALLL = 5.688m2

15) )

Substituting ( ( ALLLL= 5.091m2 hLLLL is found using least square method to be = 1.701m ) )

15b)

15c)

( hLLLL= 1.701m

15d) ALLLL = 5.090m2

16)

Substituting ( AHIL = 2.503m2 hHIL is found using least square method to be = 1.013m ( ) )

16b)

( (

) )

Substituting ( ( ) )

AHIL = 2.575m hHIL is found using least square method to be = 1.034m

16c)

hHIL= 1+0.1 =1.1m

16d)

16e)

( Substituting AHIL= 2.809m2

)(

17)

( (

) )

( = 2.917m2

hHHIL is found using least square method to be = 1.130m

17b) hHHIL = 1.1+0.1 = 1.2 17c) ( )

17d)
Substituting

)(

3.171m

18a)

(
( 2.449m
(

)
)

hLIL is found using least square method to be = 0.998m

18b)
( ( ) )

Substituting

hLIL is found using least square method to be = 0.971m

18c) hLIL = 1-0.1 = 0.9m 18d)

)
hLIL= 0.9m

18e) Substituting ALIL = 2.116m 19)

2

)(

( (

) )

( =2.008m2

hLLIL is found using least square method to be = 0.867m

19b)

hLLIL =0.9-0.1=0.8m 19c) ( )

19d)

)(

Substituting for hLLIL ALLIL= 1.789

20) = 1.2+0.05 = 1.25m 21) [( ) ] [( ) ]

PD= 400000pa

22) Wall thickness in the cylindrical section tcs is

22b) wall thickness in the head section (ellipsoidal heads) teh is

Substituting ( )

22c)

23) Separator mean diameter D is given as ( )