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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
Brian D. Albert, Fairfax, VA (US);
Theodore Trent Trier, Billings, MT (US);
Jose X. Simonetty, Kingwood, TX (US);
Magaly C. Barroeta, Herndon, VA (US);
Victor Alva, Everett, WA (US);
Michael Louis Hergenrother, Kingwood, TX (US);
Owen P. Jacobs, Plainfield, IL (US);
Brian D. Albert, Fairfax, VA (US);
Theodore Trent Trier, Billings, MT (US);
Jose X. Simonetty, Kingwood, TX (US);
Magaly C. Barroeta, Herndon, VA (US);
Victor Alva, Everett, WA (US);
Michael Louis Hergenrother, Kingwood, TX (US);
Owen P. Jacobs, Plainfield, IL (US);
EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high boiling hydrocarbon to break the emulsion and vaporize water from the emulsion in a flash drum. The vessel has an emulsion outlet for removing an emulsion stream from the emulsion layer and a conduit connecting the emulsion withdrawal port to an inlet of an optional settling drum to effect and initial separation into an oil-enriched phase and a water phase with the oil-enriched phase led to the flash drum.