100 lbmhr of air is contacted against 1200 lbmhr of 20 degre

100 lb_m/hr of air is contacted against 1200 lb_m/hr of 20 degree C water at 1 atm in a tower packed with 1/2-inch ceramic Intalox saddles. Use Lanny Robbins\' method to determine the diameter of this tower if it is operated at Delta P = 0.5 inches H_2O per foot of packed bed. Assume that the vapor and liquid phases have the properties of pure air and pure water, respectively. a. Find the ratio of the gas and liquid loading factors, b. Find the gas loading factor, and c. Determine the tower diameter.

Solution

Unique behavior of gas condensate wells is charaterized by rapid well producton loss .

condensate rapidly builds up around the wellbore pressure drop because multiphase flow prevails inthe wellbore as well as in gas and oi transmission and distribution pipelines.

physical phenomena such as turbulence , flow regime transitions, and thermodynamic phase changes with pressure and temperature, occur in the wellbore. consequently too;s currently applied to pure oil field often produce erroneous predictions.