Flow conditioning apparatus
AssigneeFramo Engineering AS
InventorBernt Helge TORKILDSEN
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Abstract
Apparatus for homogenization of multi-phase fluid; the fluid including at least a first phase and a second phase a gaseous phase and a liquid phase; the apparatus including an inner reservoir fluidly communicative with an outer receptacle; the inner reservoir including an inlet for multiphase fluid, an outlet having a smaller cross sectional area than the body for outflow of the first phase and at least one opening into the outer receptacle for outflow of the second phase, the opening being spaced from the first phase outlet; wherein the outer receptacle has an inlet conduit having a neck which at least partially surrounds the inner reservoir outlet.
Claims24
Apparatus for homogenization of multi-phase fluid;
- the fluid comprising at least a first phase and a second phase a gaseous phase and a liquid phase;
- the apparatus comprising an inner reservoir (20) fluidly communicative with an outer receptacle (10);
- the inner reservoir (20) comprising an inlet (12) for multiphase fluid, an outlet (15) having a smaller cross sectional area than the body for outflow of the first phase and at least one opening into the outer receptacle for outflow of the second phase, the opening being spaced from the first phase outlet;
- wherein the outer receptacle (10) has an inlet conduit (26) having a neck (25) which at least partially surrounds the inner reservoir outlet (15).
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A method for homogenizing multi-phase fluid comprising:
- supplying a multi-phase fluid through an inlet (12) to an inner reservoir (20) which is at least partially surrounded by an outer receptacle (10);
- allowing phases of the multi-phase fluid to a least partly separate in the inner reservoir (20);
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- drawing off an outlet stream of fluid from the inner reservoir (20) through an outlet (15) comprising a venturi so that fluid is drawn through the outer receptacle into the outlet stream.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.