A highly transient flow regime called riser slugging can develop in pipelines from wellheads to separation tanks which introduces severe oscillations of pressure and flow rates in off-shore processes. Mitigation of the intensity of riser slugging may be achieved via anticipative control actions on valves positioned at the entrance and at gas/oil exits of the separators. In Phase 1, this work is...

It is also common for flowmeters to be installed downstream of a two or three phase separator. If the well conditions change or the separator has been incorrectly sized, then it is possible that the oil liquid outlet may have some gas carry under. The effects of gas entrainment on the output of ultrasonic and Coriolis meters has been reported previously [1] [2]. It is already known that gas ent...

supersonic separators have found extensive applications in dehumidification of natural gases since 2003. unlike previous studies, which have investigated the inlet conditions and nozzle geometry of supersonic separators for pure fluids, the present study employed a combination of momentum, heat, and mass transfer equations along with virial equation of state (eos) to inspect the effect of inlet...

This study evaluated the separation efficiency and developed a pressure drop model for a multicyclone separator used for natural gas purification. The collection and grade efficiencies of a multicyclone separator with 15 single cyclone separators were evaluated at inlet velocities of 6–24 m/s and particle concentrations of 30–2000 mg/m at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. The experimen...

In pipeline-riser systems, pressure fluctuations which result from the formation of large liquid slugs and gas surges due to operational changes or low mass flow rate from production wells and the profile of pipeline-riser systems often lead to trips at the inlet of the separator; and thereby, the problem causes a a loss of the production.In this study, on a sample deep-water oil field off the ...

A large body of work over the last few years [1] supports the picture of long thick vortices as the most important long range degrees of freedom for confinement. In this note we wish to examine more closely the manner in which a linear potential arises from vortex fluctuations. One customarily assumes a picture of randomly distributed vortices of certain thickness and basically arbitrary length...

A Lagrangian describing a gas of ideal pointlike vortices interacting with a quantum gas of spin-0 particles confined in an infinite or finite subset of R2 is derived. Singleand two-vortex dynamics is studied in the special case of a homogeneous gas in infinite and finite systems. Special attention is given to the case of the annulus (ring) for which new analytic and numerical solutions are fou...

the mixing behavior of the gas-liquid phase in three loop bioreactors was investigated. a gas-induced external airlift loop bioreactor (ealb), a forced-liquid vertical tubular loop bioreactor (vtlb) and a forced-liquid horizontal tubular loop bioreactor (htlb) were used for mixing studies as well as biomass production from natural gas. the effect of design parameters, riser to downcomer cross s...

Different CFD models of reverse-flow centrifugal separators namely swirl tubes have been built in order to study and detail analysis of the phenomenon of the "end of the vortex". The present work based on previous experience and experimental activities in the field of this phenomenon. The models was built in absolutely agree with geometrical characteristics and operating conditions of experimen...