FSM eBlog

FSM: Liquid Desander – General Design and Operation (B-FSM051) Cut-away schematic of liner style desander vessel After all the fun theory,…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Classification Performance (i.e. Graded Efficiency Curve) (B-FSM050) Figures 13 and 14 from Reference 3 (Yoshioka and Hotta,…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Hydrocyclone versus Desander Hydraulics (B-FSM049) Air-core in lower cone section of 2” hydrocyclone One last comparison between…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Operation Differences between Single and Multi-Cone Vessel Design (B-FSM048) Multi-Cone and Single Cone Desanders for Produced Water…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Vessel Packing Design (B-FSM047) Installing an insert into a single cone desander used in Indonesia Terminology for…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Hardware Terminology (B-FSM046) Without proper definitions we end up making vague statements I am very pedantic when…

FSM: Liquid Desander – History of Hydrocyclones and Desanders (B-FSM045) Banks of hydrocyclones used in closed-circuit grinding in copper ore processing…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Cyclonic Technology Part 2 (B-FSM044) U.S. patent 453,105 – first cyclone patent issued The previous article defined…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Cyclonic Technology Part 1 (B-FSM043) Flow Patterns in Various Cyclonic Equipment and Bathtub Drain The Liquid Desander…

FSM: Liquid Desander – Introduction to Module M4 (B-FSM042) Produced Water Desander offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico Today we start covering…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Decision Tree and Key Items (B-FSM041) Stay focused on what is important –…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Putting All Five-Steps Together (OTC-24705) (B-FSM040) Ten wellhead desanders retrofit into the well…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Step 5 – Transport (B-FSM039) Photograph of dewatered sand ready for transport via…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Step 4 – Dewatering (B-FSM038) Photograph filtrate water from dewatering bag used to…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Step 3 – Cleaning (B-FSM037) Photograph of oily sand (left), cleaned sand (middle)…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Step 2 – Collection (B-FSM036) Sand discharged from 75 liter accumulator below 900#…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Step 1 – Separation (B-FSM035) ASME 900# Duplex Stainless Steel Multiphase Desander (Twin-System)…

Solids Handling for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry: Introduction (B-FSM034) 15K Multiphase Screen-Filter and Desander with Solids Disposal Bin at Well-Test…

Facilities Sand Management: Key Items and References (B-FSM033) This is the last article from the Facilities Sand Management (FSM) training Module…

Facilities Sand Management: Hazardous Solids (B-FSM032) Taken from www.site-lab.com/crudeoil-in-produced-sand.pdf This is a very simple discussion of materials encountered with produced solids…

Facilities Sand Management: Critical Sizes of Produced Solids (B-FSM031) A.K. Cousens, Fitzwilliam College, “The Erosion of Ductile Metals by Solid Particle…

Facilities Sand Management: Instrument and Valve Selection (B-FSM030) Post analysis of 5K, 3-1/8” valve – improper hard-face material supplied Below are…

Facilities Sand Management: Particulate Solids Transport – Particles Settling in Separators (B-FSM029) Hypothetical trajectory of sand particle in gravity separator I’m…

Facilities Sand Management: Particulate Solids Transport – Saltation Limit (B-FSM028) Deposited sand picked up by water flow upward at 45° The…

Facilities Sand Management: Particulate Solids Transport – Erosive Limit (B-FSM027) Deposited sand picked up by mixed air-water flow The upper transport…