TUBE SEPARATOR Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC E21B43/36 

FIELD: oil-and-industry.

SUBSTANCE: tube separator contains elongated tube case with inlet device, which includes an entrance pipeline and a gas collector. The tube separator diametre is the same or greater than the entrance pipeline diametre. The gas collector connected with the entrance pipeline and contains some amount of vertical gas exhaust pipes, connected to the entrance pipeline directly before the entrance into the tube separator. Gas exhaust pipes end in located above gas collecting pipe. At that the gas collector executed in a way that gas directs upwards through vertical gas exhaust pipes and collects in the gas collecting pipe for returning into exit pipeline after the tube separator or transports further forward into a gas holder or gas processing plant. The entrance pipeline has increased pipe diametre at the tube separator entrance under the last of the vertical gas exhaust pipes.

EFFECT: plug leakage avoidance and ensuring steady fluid medium flow into the tube separator.

4 cl, 3 dwg