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Oil-Water Separation Process Design

The document provides design conditions for a process, including an operating pressure of 70 barg, an oil flow rate of 30.7 m3/h, and an oil viscosity of 681.1 cP. It also describes a knock-out vessel (V-105) and heater-treater vessel (V-107). The heater-treater vessel uses an electrostatic coalescer to separate emulsified water from crude oil; it forces water droplets to coalesce and become large so they can be separated from the crude by gravity.

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Oil-Water Separation Process Design

The document provides design conditions for a process, including an operating pressure of 70 barg, an oil flow rate of 30.7 m3/h, and an oil viscosity of 681.1 cP. It also describes a knock-out vessel (V-105) and heater-treater vessel (V-107). The heater-treater vessel uses an electrostatic coalescer to separate emulsified water from crude oil; it forces water droplets to coalesce and become large so they can be separated from the crude by gravity.

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4.

Process data

Please find below the design conditions as considered for the basic design;
Process design conditions

Operating Pressure

Barg

Oil Flow rate

m3/h

Oil Viscosity

cP

Operating Temperature
Oil Density

Water Flow rate


Water Density

Water viscosity
Gas Flow rate
Gas Density

kg/m3
m3/h

kg/m3
cP

Am3/h

kg/Am3

70 vol% water-cut
3.5

30.7

681.1
848.6
2.4

1581.3
1003
0.8
0

3.7

Note:

- No further design margin added to above figures


4.2

Knock-Out Vessel V-105

Typical Knock-Out Vessel (V-105; 1x100%) lay-out


4.3

Heater-Treater Vessel V-107

Crude entering the Electrostatic Coalescer manifests itself as an emulsion with the main characteristic that it is
(semi) stable over time: the water is not separated from the crude just by gravity. In order to separate the
emulsified water, Electrostatic Coalescers force the droplets to coalesce and become large; those large
droplets are separated from the crude by gravity.

In Figure 1 a cross-sectional plane in a Frames Electrostatic Coalescer is depicted. The figure shows the

Frames inlet device (red, bottom of figure), which injects the mixture just below the high-voltage electric grids.
Between the grids the droplets coalesce, grow in size and fall out of the upward flowing crude. The treated
crude is collected in the top of the vessel while the effluent water is collected at the bottom.

Frames
Separation Technologies
separation@frames-group.com
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