Demonstrating a Three-Phase Separator With Your Own Process Fluid
How buyers can plan a separator demonstration or acceptance test using their actual oil, gas and water stream, and what to confirm with the supplier before requesting a quote.
A buyer specifying a three-phase oil, gas and water separator should decide early whether the demonstration will use the buyer's actual process fluid or a substitute. That choice shapes the test plan, the data you can rely on, and the acceptance criteria written into the order.
If actual fluid is used, ask the supplier how a sample will be conditioned, how gas is introduced, and how oil, gas and water outlets will be sampled and measured. If a substitute is proposed, ask which properties are matched and which are not, and whether results will be reported as indicative only. For orientation, the catalog lists a vessel of 3,000 × 900 mm, a listed pressure of 1.7 MPa, a DN50 inlet and a DN100 gas outlet; treat these as reference values, not guarantees for a supplied unit.
In the request for quotation, ask for the demonstration procedure, instrumentation, sampling points, acceptance criteria and reporting format. In an acceptance test, agree in advance how separation performance will be judged and who witnesses it.
Before requesting a quote, confirm with the supplier which fluid will be used, how it will be handled and disposed of, what instrumentation and sampling the test includes, and how results will be documented against agreed criteria.