| US 7,488,373 B2 | ||
| Device and method for treating a gas/liquid mixture | ||
| Trygve Håland, Tananger (Norway); and Per-Reidar Larnholm, Moss (Norway) | ||
| Assigned to Statoil ASA, Stavanger (Norway) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/506,791 PCT Filed Mar. 05, 2003, PCT No. PCT/EP03/02303 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 19, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO03/074156, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 12, 2003. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 1020113 (NL), filed on Mar. 05, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0204917 A1, Sep. 22, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. B01D 50/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 95—268 [95/269; 55/327; 55/337; 55/346; 55/348; 55/428; 55/524] | 30 Claims |
| 1. Device for treating a gas/liquid mixture, comprising:
an upright vessel with a lower and upper compartment;
an inlet for admitting the flow of mixture into the lower compartment;
an agglomerating unit placed between the lower and upper compartment for enlarging the liquid droplets in the mixture;
a separator arranged in the upper compartment downstream of the agglomerating unit for further separating the mixture into
a substantially liquid-containing mixture part and a substantially gas-containing mixture part;
a lower outlet for discharging the substantially liquid-containing mixture part from the lower compartment;
an upper outlet for discharging the substantially gas-containing mixture part from the upper compartment;
collecting means for collecting in or downstream the agglomerating unit the liquid droplets which have broken through the
agglomerating unit; and
recycling means for recycling the collected liquid from the collecting means to the lower compartment.
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