Velocity seal or buoyancy seals are used to reduce prevent air ingress in the flare stack used in oil and gas processing facilities.
Air ingress in flare...
Category - Crude Oil Refining
Slug catcher is a static equipment used in the upstream oil production facilities to minimize the slug from oil and gas pipeline. Fluids extracted from oil and...
In upstream crude oil production and processing facilities, the produced water from oil wells is separated in the slug catcher. Generally this produced water...
Flash point is a property characterizing flammable gases and liquids. By definition, the flash point of a flammable fluid is the lowest temperature at which...
Heavy Naphtha cut from the atmospheric crude oil distillation column in a refinery is sent to a ‘Naphtha Hydrotreating Unit’. After the naphtha...
Crude oil is first refined in an Atmospheric Distillation Column. Fractions of crude oil such as lighter gases (C1-C4), gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel oil...
Diesel is well known as a liquid fuel used in diesel engine which is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition of...
Centrifugal pumps
Operating problems in a centrifugal Pump which can cause damage to the centrifugal pump can be either hydraulic or mechanical. In the first...
Heating value of a natural gas is an important indicator of its overall value as a fuel.
What is heating value of a gas?
The heating value of a substance is...
Usually crude oil extracted from geological sources is accompanied by hydrogen sulphide gas (H2S). This H2S is separated from rest of the oil at the...
Crude oil refining
Crude oil extracted from geological sources is a mixture of a wide range of hydrocarbons starting from lightest methane to heavy long chain...