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Perfect Crude - Water Separation

07/16/2007 10:26 AM

how can we get perfect crude - water seperation?

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Re: seperation

07/16/2007 11:12 AM

Crude. Let's see. Crude oil?

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Re: Perfect Crude - Water Separation

07/16/2007 11:01 PM

"how can we get perfect crude - water seperation?"

Centrifuge.

Steam Distillation.

Gravity in large tank.

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Re: Perfect Crude - Water Separation

07/17/2007 12:06 PM

If you are talking about separation of crude oil and bottom sediment plus water (BS&W) for crude oil storage tanks in an oil refinery, there is no economically practical way to achieve a perfect separation.

If you are talking about separating and removing oil from the wastewater entering the a refinery wastewater treatment unit, then most refineries use either of the following:

(1) An API gravimetric separator followed by dissolved air flotation DAF.
(2) A parallel plate interceptor followed by dissolved air flotation DAF.

Either of those usually usually results in reducing the oil content of the wastewater down to 5 to 10 ppm which is not a perfect separation but good enough to enter the next step in your wastewater treatment unit.

If you are talking about separating crude oil and water on a laboratory scale, then one of the other responses has suggested centrifuging or or distillation ... although I'm not sure they would provide a perfect separation.

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