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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2003
Trygve Håland, Tananger, NO;
Per-reidar Larnholm, Moss, NO;
Trygve Håland, Tananger, NO;
Per-Reidar Larnholm, Moss, NO;
Statoil ASA, Stavanger, NO;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a device for treating a gas/liquid mixture, comprising: —an upright vessel () with a lower and upper compartment; —an inlet () for admitting the flow of mixture into the lower compartment; —an agglomerating unit () placed between the lower and upper compartment for enlarging the liquid droplets in the mixture; —a lower outlet () for discharging the substantially liquid-containing mixture part from the lower compartment; —an upper outlet () for discharging the substantially gas-containing mixture part from the upper compartment; characterized by —collecting means () for collecting on the downstream side of the agglomerating unit liquid droplets which have broken through the agglomerating unit; —recycling means () for recycling the collected liquid to the lower compartment from the collecting means.