INDEX

"Three Phase (Gas - Oil - Water) Horizontal Separator: As per ""Petroleu

m and Gas Field Processing - Hussein K. Abdel-Aal, Mohamed Aggour, M. A. Fahim""
"
INPUT PARAMETERS
Qg
8
mmscfd
Yellow boxes are input boxes.
Qo
8000
bbl/d
Qw
3000
bbl/d
?'o
27.5
oAPI
?o
0.89
o
20
cP
?w
1.04
?
0.65
Z
0.89
P
250
psia
T'
95
oF
T
555
oR
tw
10
minutes
to
15
minutes
g
0.013 cP
"dm,w" 500
Micron
"dm,o" 100
Micron
NLL
50%

Gas rate
SCHEMATIC
Oil rate
Water rate
Oil density
Oil specific gravity
Oil viscosity
Water specific gravity
Gas specific gravity
Gas compressibility
Operating pressure
Operating temperature
Operating temperature
Water retention time (Refer Table 2)
Oil retention time (Refer Table 2)
Gas viscosity
Smallest water droplet size to be removed
Smallest oil droplet size to be removed
Normal liquid level due to oil and water

CALCULATIONS
EQUATIONS
Step 1: Determine gas and oil properties
?g
0.89
lb/ft3 Gas operating density
?o
55.5
lb/ft3 Oil operating density
Step 2:
Cd
u
Re
Cd
Error
ssumed Cd"

Determine Cd
2.07
Assume
0.65
ft/s
22
2.09
0.00

Drag coefficient
Settling velocity of oil droplet
Reynolds no.
"Use goal seek to get error zero, by changing as

Step 3: Determine minimum diameter for water droplet settling

"Ho,max"
36.0
in
Aw / A 0.10
Ao + Aw = NLL * A
Ho / D 0.315 Assume
Aw / A 0.13
Error 0.00
"Use goal seek to get error zero, by changing as
ssumed Ho/D"
Dmax
114
in
Maximum allowable vessel diameter
Step 4: Check for gas capacity constraint
DL
122
in.ft
Step 4: Check for liquid capacity constraint
D2L
214350 in2ft
Try different combinations of D (smaller than Dmax).
TABLE 1
"D, in" "L (gas), ft" "Ls (gas)= L + D/12, ft"

"L, ft" "Ls (liq

uid)= 4 L/3, ft"

Governing case SR = L / (D/12)
12
10.2
11.2
1488.5 1984.7 Liquid Capacity 1984.7
TABLE 2 (Ref. API 12J)
24
5.1
7.1
372.1 496.2 Liquid Capacity 248.1
Oil Gravities
"Retention time, minutes (Typical)"
30
4.1
6.6
238.2 317.6 Liquid Capacity 127.0
Above 35 oAPI
3 to 5
36
3.4
6.4
165.4 220.5 Liquid Capacity 73.5
Below 35 oAPI
66
1.9
7.4
49.2
65.6
Liquid Capacity 11.9
100+ oF
5 to 10
72
1.7
7.7
41.3
55.1
Liquid Capacity 9.2
80+ oF
10 to 20
78
1.6
8.1
35.2
47.0
Liquid Capacity 7.2
60+ oF
20 to 30
84
1.5
8.5
30.4
40.5
Liquid Capacity 5.8
90
1.4
8.9
26.5
35.3
Liquid Capacity 4.7
96
1.3
9.3
23.3
31.0
Liquid Capacity 3.9
102
1.2
9.7
20.6
27.5
Liquid Capacity 3.2
Ls
SR
t from Table 1)
D
L
the separator"
Qg
ld be more than

35.3
4.7

ft

Seam to seam length (select from Table 1)

Slenderness ratio (typical value 3 to 5) (selec

90.0
26.5

in
ft

Separator diameter (select from Table 1)

"Effective length of

156
mmscfd Calculated gas capacity for selected L & D (Shou
8 MMSCFD - input value)

NOTES
"1. As per GPSA, typical horizontal L/D ratios are normally in the 2.5 t
o 5 range."