Produced water treating equipment: Recent field tests
For several decades, flotation cells have been workhorses for treatment of oilfield produced water for disposal or reinjection. In the last few years several alternative devices which have come on the market for the removal of oil from water have been tested in the oil field. Some of these have distinct advantages over flotation cells in terms of space and weight, better oil-recovery efficiency, and lower operating costs. This paper summarizes the results of field trials of a passive hydrocyclone, in the Arabian Gulf and in the North Sea, a coalescer which uses a specially treated ion-exchange resin as a medium in the Gulf of Mexico, two somewhat similar filter-coalescers which use crushed nut shells as media, onshore in New Mexico, West Texas, and California, and an upflow sand coalescer system in New Mexico and West Texas.
- OSTI ID:
- 6263731
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870323-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Institute of Chemical Engineers spring national meeting, Houston, TX, USA, 29 Mar 1987; Other Information: Technical Paper 3C
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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