Emulsions and Oil Treating Equipment

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Maurice Stewart, PE, a Registered Professional Engineer with over 40 years international consulting experience in project management; designing, selecting, specifying, installing, operating, optimizing, retrofitting and troubleshooting oil, water and gas handling, conditioning and processing facilities; designing plant piping and pipeline systems, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, process equipment, and pumping and compression systems; and leading hazards analysis reviews and risk assessments. Ken Arnold is the founder and former president of Paragon Engineering Services, Houston, Texas. He has more that 40 years of experience in the operations and project management. He is actively involved in production facility design. He has served on numerous SPE, API, and government advisory committees as an expert on oil handling, produced-water treating, and safety aspects producing operations. Klappentext The water emulsified within the oil must be removed to produce a marketable crude oil. In addition, water in oil can lead to the formation of rust, bacterial growth and increased oil oxidation -all factors that lead to reduced lifetime of both components and oil. Furthermore, the nature of petroleum emulsions change continuously as the producing field depletes and production methods change. The problem has grown more widespread and more difficult as producers attempt to produce more difficult reserves by lifting more water with oil from water-drive formations, waterflooded zones and wells stimulated by thermal and chemical recovery techniques. A practical and convenient reference which provides solutions to the everyday problems that refinery operators, petroleum engineers, contractors, or designers often face when selecting, sizing and operating equipment. Written in a ?how to? format, it brings together hundreds of "how-to" methods, handy formulas, diagrams and tables in one convenient book. Zusammenfassung A guide to understanding emulsion theory! methods and equipment! and practical design of a treating system. It explains methods such as: demulsifiers! temperature! electrostatics and non-traditional methods of modulated or pulsed voltage control! and equipment such as: electrostatic treater (dehydrator)! separator! and gunbarr heater-treater. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Basic Principles Chapter One: Emulsion theory Chapter Two: Factors affecting emulsion stability Part Two: Emulsion treating methods Chapter Three: Chemical addition Chapter Four: Settling timeChapter Five: Heat Chapter Six: Electrostatic coalescing Part Three: Emulsion Treating Equipment Chapter Seven: Gun-barrelsChapter Eight: Wash Tanks with external gas bootsChapter Nine: Vertical/horizontal heater treatersChapter Ten: Electrostatic heater treatersChapter Eleven: Oil Dehydrators and Desalters Part Four: Emulsion treating equipment sizing; Chapter Twelve: Major factors controlling sizingChapter Thirteen: Gravity settling considerationsChapter Fourteen: Determining required heat inputChapter Fifteen: Sizing gunbarrel tanksChapter Sixteen: Sizing vertical treatersChapter Seventeen: Sizing horizontal heater-treaters and electrostatic heater-treatersChapter Eighteen: Water droplet size Part Five: Practical design of an oil treating system Chapter Nineteen: General considerations ...

Autorentext
Dr. Maurice Stewart, PE, a Registered Professional Engineer with over 40 years international consulting experience in project management; designing, selecting, specifying, installing, operating, optimizing, retrofitting and troubleshooting oil, water and gas handling, conditioning and processing facilities; designing plant piping and pipeline systems, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, process equipment, and pumping and compression systems; and leading hazards analysis reviews and risk assessments. Ken Arnold is the founder and former president of Paragon Engineering Services, Houston, Texas. He has more that 40 years of experience in the operations and project management. He is actively involved in production facility design. He has served on numerous SPE, API, and government advisory committees as an expert on oil handling, produced-water treating, and safety aspects producing operations.

Klappentext
The water emulsified within the oil must be removed to produce a marketable crude oil. In addition, water in oil can lead to the formation of rust, bacterial growth and increased oil oxidation -all factors that lead to reduced lifetime of both components and oil. Furthermore, the nature of petroleum emulsions change continuously as the producing field depletes and production methods change. The problem has grown more widespread and more difficult as producers attempt to produce more difficult reserves by lifting more water with oil from water-drive formations, waterflooded zones and wells stimulated by thermal and chemical recovery techniques. A practical and convenient reference which provides solutions to the everyday problems that refinery operators, petroleum engineers, contractors, or designers often face when selecting, sizing and operating equipment. Written in a ?how to? format, it brings together hundreds of "how-to" methods, handy formulas, diagrams and tables in one convenient book.

Zusammenfassung
A guide to understanding emulsion theory, methods and equipment, and practical design of a treating system. It explains methods such as: demulsifiers, temperature, electrostatics and non-traditional methods of modulated or pulsed voltage control, and equipment such as: electrostatic treater (dehydrator), separator, and gunbarr heater-treater.

Inhalt

Part One: Basic PrinciplesChapter One: Emulsion theory Chapter Two: Factors affecting emulsion stability

Part Two: Emulsion treating methods Chapter Three: Chemical addition Chapter Four: Settling timeChapter Five: Heat Chapter Six: Electrostatic coalescing

Part Three: Emulsion Treating EquipmentChapter Seven: Gun-barrelsChapter Eight: Wash Tanks with external gas bootsChapter Nine: Vertical/horizontal heater treatersChapter Ten: Electrostatic heater treatersChapter Eleven: Oil Dehydrators and Desalters

Part Four: Emulsion treating equipment sizing; Chapter Twelve: Major factors controlling sizingChapter Thirteen: Gravity settling considerationsChapter Fourteen: Determining required heat inputChapter Fifteen: Sizing gunbarrel tanksChapter Sixteen: Sizing vertical treatersChapter Seventeen: Sizing horizontal heater-treaters and electrostatic heater-treatersChapter Eighteen: Water droplet size

Part Five: Practical design of an oil treating systemChapter Nineteen: General considerations