System is a model of supersonic simplicity

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 26 April 2012 22:59 GMT

Instead of the traditional approach to dehydration of natural gas and separation of gas liquids, with its large and complex machinery and extensive use of chemicals such as glycol, the Twister system has at its heart a two-metre long steel tube that is no more than 200mm in diameter.

Here the stream of cooled wet gas is forced to swirl at supersonic speeds so that centrifugal force pushes the liquid droplets outwards to the pipe’s inner wall where they can be channelled off. It is simple, compact, and has no moving parts.



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