Performance assessment of an inline horizontal swirl tube cyclone for gas-liquid separation at high pressure

• Main Authors: Mellon, Nurhayati, SHARIFF, A. M
• Format: Citation Index Journal
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/6962/1/abstract9183.shtml; http://www.jngc.org/EN/volumn/home.shtml; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/6962/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The application of swirl tube cyclone for gas-liquid separation is attractive due to its small size and weight. However, very scarce information on the performance of the swirl tube cyclone especially at high operating pressure emulating actual field condition was published in journals. Performance assessment was usually done at a low operating pressure using either air-water, air-fine particle mixtures or dense gas such as SF6. This paper fills the existing gaps and reports the initial findings on the performance assessment of a horizontal swirl tube cyclone for gas-liquid separation operating at a flow rate of 5 MMSCFD at 40–60 bar operating pressure.