The Installation Scheme
The Supersonic Separator requires a certain process scheme which includes further auxiliary equipment and often forms a skid or processing block. The typical basic scheme for supersonic separation is an arrangement where the feed gas is pre-cooled in a heat exchanger by the dry stream of the separator unit.
The liquid phase from the supersonic separator goes into a 2-phase or 3-phase separator, where the slip gas is separated from water and/or from liquid hydrocarbons. The gaseous phase of this secondary separator joins the dry gas of the supersonic separator, the liquids go for transport, storage or further processing and the water for treatment and disposal.
Depending on the task at hand other schemes are possible and for certain cases have advantages. Those variations are very much part of the supersonic gas separation process to achieve thermodynamic efficiency and several of them are protected by patents.
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