Four phase vertical rotary separator
AssigneeEnergent Corporation
InventorsLance G. Hays, Shawn Barge
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Abstract
A compact rotating separator apparatus to which a fluid stream containing gas, two liquids of different density, and solids is supplied via nozzles or exhaust from a process component; and which employs high centrifugal forces to produce pure streams of the gas, each of the liquids, and a waste stream containing the solids. The energy in the fluid stream is converted to shaft power in the rotating separator apparatus and can be used to generate power. Oil, gas, water and solids from a production well can be directly separated into the constituent streams while producing useful power.
Claims38
The method of operating a rotating separator apparatus to which fluid, including gas, and liquids, and solids are supplied in a fluid stream, which includes the following steps:
- a) separating gas from said stream at a first zone within said rotating separator apparatus,
- b) separating liquids from said stream into separate layers of different density at a second zone within said rotating separator apparatus, and
- c) removing said separated gas and separated liquids of different density from the said first and second zones of said rotating separator apparatus.
A rotating separator apparatus to which fluid, including gas, and liquids, and solids are supplied in a fluid stream, which comprises:
- a) first means for separating gas from said stream at a first zone within said rotating separator apparatus,
- b) second means for separating liquids from said stream into separate layers of different density at a second zone within said rotating separator apparatus, and
- c) third means for removing said separated gas and separated liquids of different density from the said first and second zones of said rotating separator apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.