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Free Water KO Drum Flow Assurance: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Free Water KO Drum Flow Assurance: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
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The problem
Increasing the volumetric flow
rate caused carryover.
•The original internals featured
an inlet deflector plate and a gas
box where the inlet directly faced
the liquid surface in the vessel.
•The problem is shown clearly
here. Droplets are picked up
from the liquid surface, locally
overloading the mesh pad, which
failed to defend the gas box
from carryover.
•The root cause of the carryover
was the localized overloading
Above: This graphic shows droplet re-entrainment in the gas phase and the localized overloading of the mesh
of the mesh pad.
pad demister. Below: The revamped gas box with 20, 4G-FD® Demisting Cyclones facing the vessel’s inlet.
The revamp CFD model included the swirl in each cyclone.
The solution
•Revamp the vessel by removing
the mesh pad and placing 20,
4G-FD® Demisting Cyclones on
the front of the gas box.
•The gas box inlet no longer
faces the liquid surface in the
vessel. This simple design
change eliminated droplet
re-entrainment from the liquid
surface.
•The revamp configuration with
demisting cyclones can process
more gas which meets the
Zeta-pdm Ltd client’s requirement for
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