PHYSICAL AND CHEMICALLY EMULSIFIED HYDROCARBON WATER SEPARATOR FOR SHIPMENT ROOMS

摘要

This equipment consists of a gravimetric separation unit (1) and a cross-flow emulsion breaker membrane separation unit (5). The hydrocarbon water to be treated reaches the separation unit (1) from a storage tank (21), by means of a suction pump (4) which impels the hydrocarbon-free water coming from that unit(1) towards the separation unit (5), where the emulsion separation takes place through the emulsion breaker membrane (6); the main peculiarity laying on the fact that the hydrocarbons coming from this unit (5) are sent through a conduit (11) towards the separation unit (1), therefore reaching a top receptacle (12) together with the free hydrocarbons obtained from the latter unit, to be expelled outwards through a conduit (15). This equipment is aimed at separating free hydrocarbon and emulsified hydrocarbon from a water stream.