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[gvdlans]

1) By asking a collegue.
2) By looking for your companies standard or your clients standard (e.g. Shell DEP) on how to size a 3 phase separator.
3) By going to a library and see if you can find a book on the subject.

I'm sorry but I thought this forum was meant for Industrial Professionals in chemical engineering...

(This thread seems to have been moved from the Industrial Professionals to the Student forum, making my final remark a bit strange...)

[mbeychok]

Ram:

Since you didn't furnish any details, I will assume that your question concerns a separator for (1) a vapor phase, (2) a liquid hydrocarbon phase and (3) a liquid aqueous phase. If that is the case, the following article has been recommended in prior postings to this forum:

Monnery, W.D and William Y. Svrcek, "Successfully Specify Three-Phase Separators", Chemical Engineeirng Progress (CEP), September 1994, Pgs. 29-40.

If you cannot find it in your library, try contacting the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) who publish the CEP journal.