Dehydrate:

Dehydration of crude oil is normally accomplished by treating with emulsion breakers.

The water vapor in natural gas must be removed to meet pipeline requirements; a typical maximum allowable water vapor content is 7 pounds per million cubic feet per day.

Terms Related to Dehydrate

• Dehydration

  The removal of water or water vapor from gas or oil

• Batch treating

  The process by which a single quantity of crude oil emulsion is broken into oil and water. The emulsion is gathered and stored in a ...

• Emulsion

  A mixture in which one liquid, termed the dispersed phase, is uniformly distributed (usually as minute globules) in another liquid, called the continuous phase or ...

• Absolute humidity

  The amount of moisture present in the air, usually expressed in grains of water per 100 cubic feet of air (milligrams of water per cubic ...

• Mole

  The fundamental unit of mass of a substance. A mole of any substance is the number of grams or pounds indicated by its molecular weight. ...

• Emulsifying agent

  A material that causes water and oil to form an emulsion. Water normally occurs separately from oil; if, however, an emulsifying agent is present, the ...

• Relative density

  1. The ratio of the weight of a given volume of a substance at a given temperature to the weight of an equal volume of ...