oil and gas separator pressure drop

[juliomendez]

hey friends!!
Which is the normal pressure drop in oil and gas separator designed by API 12 J???

 

[gr2vessels]

Julio,
The pressure drop is selected/calculated by the process engineer, is not part of mechanical engineering! Also, the sizing is pert of process engineering followed by the mechanical design of the separator as a pressure vessel. You are asking the wrong forum...
Cheers,
gr2vessels

 

[cloa]

Gr2vessel you mean its the wrong forum because its not code specified rather process (engineer) specified. API is not inherently Mechanical Engineering.

 

[gr2vessels]

Yep, something like that...
Cheers,
gr2vessels

 

[chemjock]

As I recall, API 12J is just a tank with minimal internals so pressure drop should be small <1 psi if the nozzles aren't undersized. Add a demister and the drop goes up slighty. Add a filter coalescer and you start to add real pressure drop.