Owen P Jacobs

US Patent:

20150083644, Mar 26, 2015

Filed:

Aug 25, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/467110

Inventors:

Brian D. Albert - Fairfax VA, US
Theodore Trent Trier - Billings MT, US
Jose X. Simonetty - Kingwood TX, US
Magaly C. Barroeta - Herndon VA, US
Victor Alva - Everett WA, US
Michael Louis Hergenrother - Kingwood TX, US
Owen P. Jacobs - Plainfield IL, US

Assignee:

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company - Annandale NJ

International Classification:

C10G 31/08
C10G 31/06

US Classification:

208298, 196 46

Abstract:

A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high boiling hydrocarbon to break the emulsion and vaporize water from the emulsion in a flash drum. The vessel has an emulsion outlet for removing an emulsion stream from the emulsion layer and a conduit connecting the emulsion withdrawal port to an inlet of an optional settling drum to effect and initial separation into an oil-enriched phase and a water phase with the oil-enriched phase led to the flash drum.