Oil Water Separator

[Amit Sahu]

Greetings of the Day,
I am looking for details on the latest technologies used for Oil Water Separator in India. If someone have useful information/details on subjected topics please share.

 

[zdas04]

Amit Sahu,
If there are any useful innovations in the last 50 or so years, I've been unable to find them (and as part of an Expert Witness job, I had to search very carefully in that space a couple of months ago).

A lot of people are flogging various centrifugal products that are touted as the best thing ever to reduce footprint and cost. Beware of them. They all work in a very narrow Weber Number range--in that range they are really great, but a very small increment outside that range and they don't work at all. I've found centrifugal liquid/liquid separators to be useful in carefully controlled conditions (e.g., inside a plant with a capable process control computer), but not in the blood-guts-feathers world of upstream. In upstream you are better off using something like:

[bold]David Simpson, PE[/bold]
MuleShoe Engineering

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist

 

[LittleInch]

Amit,

what sort of pressure and oil/ water ratio / flow rates are you talking about?

High pressure three phase stuff like Dave is describing or oily water atmospheric separation?

Big difference.

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