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CDS-Gasunie™
cyclone scrubber
The CDS-Gasunie Cyclone Scrubber can be used for separation of liquids from gases and for the
protection of downstream equipment.
Solid particles (dust, sand, etc.) will also be removed, making the scrubber suitable for use as a
gas wellhead separator.
CDS-Gasunie™ cyclone scrubber
How it works
The optimised blade geometry brings the combined phase
CDS-Gasunie Cyclone into rotation. The resulting centrifugal force moves the
Scrubber liquid and solid particles towards the vessel wall, where
they form a liquid film flowing downwards to the bottom
of the vessel. The gas exits the vessel through the central
Gas flow meter
pipe connected to the gas outlet nozzle. The baffles in the
bottom of the vessel stop the rotation of the liquid, and
the blocking plate prevents liquids from being entrained
with the gas. In this way it is ensured, that no gas carry-
under or liquid carry-over can occur.
Benefits
Enables the debottlenecking of both liquid and gas In a development project performed by CDS Separation
constrained vessels Systems in association with Gasunie Research, the
Not susceptible to fouling conventional Gasunie type cyclone scrubber was analysed
Excellent slug handling capabilities and points for improvement were identified.
Small size and weight: attractive for offshore With the use of CFD and high-pressure tests at the Gasunie
applications Research facility, several geometrical improvements
Proven state-of-the-art patented technology regarding the fluid flow inside the separator were tested.
It was found that by optimising the separator internals,
Applications the pressure drop could be reduced by 50%.
Compressor suction scrubber During further high-pressure tests it was verified that the
Flare scrubber separation efficiency remained the same.
Knockout scrubber upstream of a filter coalescer The benefit of the optimised design is that when designing
Liquid knockout in a gas transmission pipeline for the same pressure drop and separation efficiency, the
Degassing separator for multi-phase flow meters separator vessel can be reduced in size, leading to savings
Portable test separator on capital investment cost.
Pre-separator upstream of production vessel A case study was carried out for a gas-liquid separation
section of a gas production plant. The gas comes straight
Economic benefits from the wellhead and enters a CDS-Gasunie type
No maintenance required separator.
High turndown Liquids (hydrocarbon and water), as well as sand, are
Often pays for itself through increased production separated from the gas. After cooling, the gas runs through
a second CDS-Gasunie type separator, before entering a
Demister Gas Capacity Comparison
compression module and the downstream gas treating
plant.
0,9 Taking the conventional Gasunie cyclone as a base case,
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the vessel ID and Tan/Tan length could both be reduced to
84% for the new CDS-Gasunie design. This led to a lower
0,7 investment cost for the combined pressure vessel and
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Results of case study
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Gas Load Factor (m/s)
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Mesh CDS 350 CDS 250 SPIRAFLOW CDS-
Vane Vane Cyclone Gasunie Conventional Optimised Design
Cyclone Design
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