Depressurization System by Coiled Pipes Applied to a High Pressure Process: Experimental Results and Modeling

Abstract

Received: February 10, 2017 Revised: May 24, 2017 Accepted: June 02, 2017 Abstract: Background: The use of backpressure regulator valves is widespread in high-pressure processes both at laboratory and pilot plant scales, but being a single step for effluent depressurization, such valves may have some limitations at industrial scale. In an effort to improve the depressurization step, this work studies a system based on the pressure drop of a fluid that circulates through coiled pipes.