My SAGD plant uses flash treaters to drive off residual water from our oil product. The pressure drop is induced by a pressure control valve upstream of the flash treater vessel. We experience severe erosion issues in the spool pieces downstream of the control valve. There is very likely sand...
Not sure why you assume I'm in BC or California but I'm actually in Alberta.
I agree that it's important to get terminology correct. The term "Blanket gas" is how we refer to this system on site but it does appear to be a misnomer. We also sometimes call it "Sweep Gas".
I believe the reason...
Currently our SAGD plant's VRU is down and we are flaring. We use fuel gas to blanket our produced water tanks but we're interested in reducing the flow rates while the VRU is down so as not to contribute to flaring.
Our DBM reccomends a flow rate that is sufficient to completely purge the...
We have several flow-to-close, globe valves used to control the flowrate of boiler feed water to our steam generators. Many of these valves have developed leaks around the stem and packing. All of them are installed backwards as per the manufacturer's reccommendation for reducing pressure...
