As oil prices have increased, interest in downhole oil-water separators (DOWS) has returned after a 2-year lull caused by a low oil price and the nervousness of operators to install relatively ...

STI has obtained Underwriters Laboratories (UL) approval for the new AquaSweep gravity oil/water separator. Tested and listed according to UL Subject STI has obtained Underwriters Laboratories (UL) ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Aerogels, sometimes called frozen smoke, are nanoscale foams: solid materials whose sponge-like structure is riddled by pores as small as nanometers across. They can be made from ...

The industry still has installed only a few downhole oil-water and gas-water separators, and the technology has languished compared with activity and expectations made during the late 1990s, according ...

MIT engineers have come up with a method of extracting clean water and reusable oil from oil spills using nanoparticles that turn the oil into magnetic ferrofluids. When oil spills occur, the polluted ...

Named after the two-faced Roman god Janus to reflect its dual-purpose design, researchers present a novel membrane system – a Janus channel of membranes (JCM) – capable of simultaneously separating ...

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THIS OIL/WATER SEPARATOR features patented Corella coalescer technology. It combines features of both a flat plate coalescer and a corrugated plate coalescer into a new "self-cleaning" design. This ...

FPSO crude separation is a staged, three-phase process that uses pressure letdown, heating, and electrostatic coalescence to split well fluids into stabilized crude, export gas, and treated produced ...

Whether it's managing tramp oil in coolants or accumulated oil from parts washing, machining operations benefit from efficient, well designed oil-removal systems. CNC machine shops are constantly ...