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Two Phase (Gas - Oil) Vertical Separator: As per "Petroleum and Gas Field Processing Hussein K. Abdel-Aal, Mohamed Aggour, M. A. Fahim"
SCHEMATIC

Qo

3000 bbl/d
0.75
o
35.0 API
0.50
514.7 psia

'o
l
P
T
t
Z
g

o
100 F
o
560 R
3 minutes
0.9
0.012 cP

dm

150 Micron

T'

Oil rate
Gas specific gravity
Oil density
Oil specific gravity
Operating pressure
Operating temperature
Operating temperature
Retention time (Refer Table 1)
Gas compressibility
Gas viscosity
Smallest oil droplet size to be removed

CALCULATIONS
Step 1:
Determine gas and oil properties
3
g
Gas operating density
2.07 lb/ft
31.2 lb/ft

Cd

1.10 Assume
0.52 ft/s
66
1.07

u
Re
Cd
Error

0.00

Step 3:
D2

= 2.7

Oil operating density

Click me

Drag coefficient
Settling velocity of oil droplet
Reynolds no.
Use goal seek to get error zero, by changing
asssumed Cd

Dmin

Check for gas capacity constraint

2
6754 in
Minimum allowable vessel diameter for separation
82.2 in
of oil droplets down to 100 micron

Step 4:

Check for liquid capacity constraint

dh

75000

Try different combinations of D.

TABLE 1
Ls, ft
d, in
h, in
SR
30
83.3
13.3
36
57.9
11.2
42
42.5
10.4
48
32.6
10.0
54
25.7
10.0
60
20.8
10.1

5.3
3.7
3.0
2.5
2.2
2.0

66

17.2

10.3

1.9

TABLE 2 (Ref. API 12J)

Oil Gravities
Above 35 oAPI

72

14.5

10.5

1.8

20 to 30 oAPI

78
84
90

SR
D

EQUATIONS

Determine Cd

Step 2:

Ls

Yellow boxes are input boxes.

INPUT PARAMETERS
Qg
60 mmscfd Gas rate

12.3
10.6
9.3
11.3 ft
3.8
36.0 in

10.9
11.2
11.6

1.7
1.6
1.5
Seam to seam length (select from Table 1)
Slenderness ratio (typical value 3 to 4) (select from Table 1)
Separator diameter (select from Table 1)

NOTES
1. As per GPSA, typical vertical H/D ratios are normally in the 2 to 4 range.

10 to 20 API

Retention time,
1
1 to 2
2 to 4