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Adequacy Check New Horizontal Separator VESSEL DIMENSION Inside Diameter Length T/T 42 in 16 ft
Liquid level Oil LOSHH 27 in LOSH 23 in NOLL 10.5 in LOSL 7 in LOSLL 5 in Liquid level Water LISHH 10.5 in LISH 8 in NILL 7 in LISL 6 in LISLL 4 in Weir Height 20.5 in Nozzle size Inlet Schoepentoeter or equivalent 10 in Gas outlet 10 in Water outlet 3 in Oil outlet 3 in
DESIGN CRITERIA Type of wire mesh K factor Settling Time LSH - TOV LSH - LSL (working level) LSL - BOV Nozzle criteria Inlet Gas outlet Liquid outlet Mesh Pad 0.35 ft/s
Ref. 2
5 minutes
or min
12 in 12 in 6 in
STANDARD & CODE 1 API 12J, Specification for Oil and Gas Separator 2 GPSA Engineering Data Book 12th edition 2004, Section 7 3 Deflector baffle equivalent to schoepentoeter
PROCESS CALCULATION
HORIZONTAL SEPARATOR - ADEQUACY CHECK SHEET
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lb/ft3 cP
4.34
SEPARATOR SIZING K factor correction Terminal velocity, Vt Horizontal gas velocity Liquid dropout time 0.76 ft/s 6.37 ft/s 1.30 ft/s 0.21 s Required 1.17 0.27 Available 4.52 13.67 Remark Separation is OK Separation is OK
Gas cross section area, ft2 Gas path length, ft LEVEL RETENTION TIME ToV - LOSH LOSH - LISL (working level) LISL - BOV NOZZLE SIZING
19 in 17 in 6 in
OK OK OK
Calculated Inlet Schoepentoeter or equivalent 6.76 in Gas outlet 7.34 in Water outlet 2.00 in Oil outlet 2.00 in
Existing 10 10 3 3 in in in in
Remark OK OK OK OK
PROCESS CALCULATION
HORIZONTAL SEPARATOR - ADEQUACY CHECK SHEET
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N2
N1
LOSHH 27 in LOSH 23 in LISHH 11 in LISH 8 in NILL 7 in LISL 6 in LISLL 4 in NOLL 11 in LOSL 7 in LOSLL 5 in
Weir 21 in
42 in
N3
L1 = 13.7 ft
N4
2.3 ft
Where: N1 = Nozzle inlet N2 = Nozzle gas outlet N3 = Nozzle Water outlet N4 = Nozzle Oil outlet