SETTLER FOR SEPARATION OF AN EMULSION Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: oil producing industry.

SUBSTANCE: the invention is dealt with the oil producing industry, in particular, with installations for collection and preparation of petroleum and water and may be used for separation of emulsions. The settler contains a vertical cylindrical container, a distributor of an emulsion made in the form of a horizontal branch-pipe and a set of the hollow truncated cones located in series one after another coaxially to the branch-pipe and rigidly fixed in respect to each other and to the branch-pipe and having both internal diameters and aperture angles decreasing while spacing from butt part of the branch-pipe. The last baffle represents a hollow cone. On the emulsion inlet branch-pipe along its upper generatrix there is a vertical gas withdrawing tube, the upper end of which is located in a gaseous zone of the settler. The technical result consists in a decrease of costs of production, mounting and maintenance of the settler. Besides the invention allows to improve quality of an emulsion separation.

EFFECT: the invention allows to decrease costs of production, mounting and maintenance of the settler and to improve quality of separation of emulsions.

4 dwg, 2 tbl