Condensate stabilization

A process for stabilizing a condensate feed and mitigating fouling, comprising:

• providing a raw condensate feed to a stabilizer feed drum, the raw condensate feed comprising hydrocarbons and greater than 2000 ppmv free and emulsified water, the water having greater than 40000 ppm salt (TDS), wherein the stabilizer feed drum comprises a feed inlet, a water outlet, a vapor outlet, an unstabilized condensate outlet, and liquid-liquid separation parallel plate pack internals;
• flowing the raw condensate from the feed inlet through the liquid-liquid separation parallel plate pack internals to separate the raw condensate and to form a water phase and an oil phase, wherein the oil phase comprises less than 500 ppmv free and emulsified water;
• recovering the water phase via the water outlet and recovering the oil phase via the unstabilized condensate outlet;
• feeding the oil phase from the unstabilized condensate outlet to a stabilizer system, the stabilizer system including a stabilizer column and one or more reboilers;
• in the stabilizer system, separating the oil phase into a vapor and a stabilized condensate, wherein the separating comprises operating the stabilizer column at an overhead pressure of greater than 12 bar gauge (175 psig) and a bottoms temperature of greater than 135° C. (275° F.);
• recovering the vapor as an overhead vapor from the stabilizer column;
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• recovering the stabilized condensate as a bottoms from the stabilizer column, wherein the stabilized condensate has a true vapor pressure (TVP) of less than 3.8 bar gauge (55 psig).