Comparative Study Of Different Types Of Inlet Diverter To Tbe Emulsion Stability

Emulsion will create a lot of operational challenges when separation failed to separate emulsion
and water effectively. I t will overloading of surfuce equipment ,increase cost of pumping wet
crude ,risk of corrosion and etc. Thus, effective separation of emulsion is crucial to reduce
operational challenges. As the objective of this Final Year Project(FYP) is to study of different
Inlet Diverters (ID) to the emulsion stability. Basically Plate ID, Half Pipe ID and Hydrocyclone ID
are tested upon separation effectiveness. This FYP is about to set up an experiment for crude oil
mixture separation using gravity separator retrofit witiJ. Plate ID, Half Pipe ID and Hydrocyclone
ID. In addition, this FYP also study on effect of different ID at fixed flow rate, different operating
temperature and water cut towards emulsion stability. From the study conducted, the author found
that the most preferable ID for effective separation is Half Pipe ID. Some modification have to be
made for better improvement of the experimental result. The area of improvement includes more
sophisticated design of ID, material used to construct ID, and flow rate that can be representative of
actual field condition.