Application of polyurethane, rubber and aluminum as materials for the production of the dome separator

Abstract

The paper describes the use of the installation of the dome-separator, which is a huge tank, cylindrical in shape and open from the bottom. The installation height reaches several tens of meters and a radius of several meters. Such a design can be made of elastic (such as polyurethane, rubber) or hard (duralumin) materials. The dome-separator can be used to eliminate the breakthroughs of gas and oil wells at great depths (more than 500 meters), when blocking the well is a difficult event. Sufficiently large dimensions of the installation are needed so that the mixture entering it can be separated into gas and oil phases for selective selection. Also, the dome-separator can be used as a method of extraction. The manufacture of such a structure from elastic materials contributes to an easier way to transport the dome-separator to the place of operation. The mathematical modeling of such an installation showed that the manufacture of a rubber dome-separator contributes to more efficient heat storage inside the structure, which has a beneficial effect on the decomposition of hydrate, which can be formed under operating conditions.