The Need for Industrial Oil and Gas Separators

Industrial oil and gas separators can be confusing to learn. The same system can have multiple names and multiple phases and still do almost the same things. The experts know the many names of the machine, such as separators, scrubbers, slug catchers, and knockout drums.

The Industry of Separators

Industrial Oil and gas separators are an industry that is only growing. The biggest reason for this is because there is no lack of refineries and water and waste treatment plants. Each industry needed a way to separate oil, gas, and sometimes water with vessels. Vessel models are horizontal, vertical, or spherical.

Refineries Using Separators

Refineries are finding more ways to utilize these oil and gas separators in their facilities every single day. The two-phased types meet all the requirements for these companies by using stages to remove contaminated gas bubbles from the bulk liquid stream. The number of fluids to be separated and position makes the name of each type of machine. Mostly, it is called an oil and gas separator but is also called wellhead separators, traps, and pipeline scrubbers.

Why Use Them?

Separators do what they say they do. They separate oil, gas, and sometimes water from each other. This is done by a pressure vessel specifically used to separate a well stream into gaseous and liquid components. These can be separated appropriately, and then the gas is either moved to a sale line or pulled out for combustion. It separates and collects liquids from the natural gasses.

Usable With Water and Waste Treatment Plants Too?

Though these machines are more likely to be found in a refinery than any other machine, an oil and gas separator is also used for water and waste treatment plants. Another phase is added to the gas and liquid separation whereby the gas goes to the top of the vessel, oil floats to the middle, and the water drops to the bottom by gravity.

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