Apparatus and method for separating water from crude oil

Details Apparatus and method for separating water from crude oil Apparatus and method for separating water from crude oil

1990-06-14

1991-04-02

Hart, Charles

Liquid purification or separation

Processes

Separating

210800, 210294, 2105121, B01D 2126

Patent

active

050045520

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for separating water and crude oil mixtures and other two-phase fluid mixtures of components of different densities. The mixture is pumped through a conduit in the form of a vertical spiral at a velocity that impels the heavy phase toward the outside of the spiral. A fraction is withdrawn from the outside of the turns of the spiral and is led downwardly to the bottom of a vertical settling tank. Any light phase removed with the heavy phase floats to the top in the settling tank and is reintroduced at the top of the spiral.

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