(71d) Design and Fabrication of Pilot Scale Gas/Liquid Separators

Separation processes are an important component of chemical and petrochemical plants.   In large facilities, gas/liquid, liquid/liquid, and gas/liquid/liquid separators can benefit from engineered internals such as coalescing plate packs, weirs, and baffles.  In smaller pilot facilities, these internals can be difficult to employ due to size constraints.  This session will discuss various approaches of designing and fabricating pilot scale separators that are effective without the benefit of internals available to their full-scale counterparts.  The main focus will be on a recent redesign of a small scale three phase separator that has been proven to have less liquid carryover than earlier designs.