FPSO용 3상 세퍼레이터의 Mist Eliminator 성능평가에 대한 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Wire mesh mist eliminator is widely used in various industrial fields, such as crude oil production plants and chemical process plants, specifically on gas scrubbers, packed towers and 3-phase separators, for the purpose to remove floating liquid droplets in the gas. The wide utilization of the wire mesh mist eliminator is due to the low-cost and high separation efficiency. However, despite of the wide applications of the wire mesh mist eliminator, design and performance validation cases using computational fluid dynamics are very limited. Heretofore, wire mesh mist eliminator design has been performed based on semi-empirical equations, and performance is validated through high-cost experiments. On this study, a method to evaluate the performance of a wire mesh mist eliminator which will be applied to the FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading) topside 3-phase separator by using two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics has been suggested to replace the high-cost experiments. To verify the suggested method, a comparison between the performance analysis using computational fluid dynamics, semi-empirical equation, and experiments has been performed with a specific wire mesh mist eliminator model.