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Improvement of Designs of Oil and Gas Separators for Offshore Oil Production Platforms

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Several unique oil and gas separators (OGS) are proposed and their efficiency is evaluated based on laboratory and numerical experiments. The separation area is 20–30% larger in a vertical OGS with a screw shelf than in a standard OGS, which ensures congruent increase in OGS efficiency. In a horizontal OGS with a bubbler, the bubbling action on the fluid enhances efficiency by 40–50%. In a horizontal OGS with a bubbler and a heater, convective fluid flows rising above the heater accelerate ascent of large gas-carrier bubbles, whereupon the OGS efficiency increases by 55–75%. In a vertical OGS, plates of unique design can be used, in addition to a bubbler, for ease of separation of gas bubbles, in which case the efficiency generally increases by 60–80% as compared to the efficiency of standard vertical OGS.

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  1. Astrakhan State Technical University (Astrakhanskii Gosudarstvennyi Tekhnicheskii Universitet), Astrakhan, Russia

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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftegazovoe Mashinostroenie, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 12–15, September, 2019.

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Shishkin, N.D., Maksimenko, Y.A. Improvement of Designs of Oil and Gas Separators for Offshore Oil Production Platforms. Chem Petrol Eng 55, 713–718 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10556-020-00684-0

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