Definitions of words and terms used in the gas processing industry.
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A liquid from which essentially all ethane and lighter compounds have been removed.
A distillation tower for separating ethane and lighter components from the propane and heavier components.
An undesirable substance which is produced because of some reaction such as cracking, dehydrogenation, or polymerization.
The act or process of removing water from a system or flowing stream.
A facility which contains equipment and apparatus designed to remove water from hydrocarbon streams.
The equipment and apparatus designed to remove water from hydrocarbon streams.
A distillation tower for separating the isobutane from the normal butane.
The location within a facility or piping system where product changes custody from one party to another.
A hydrocarbon product from which essentially all methane and lighter materials have been removed.
A distillation tower for separating methane and lighter components from the ethane and heavier components.
A distillation tower for separating propane and lighter components from the butanes and heavier components.
A solid substance used to remove water.
Rapid and explosive combustion that causes a shockwave.
The temperature at a given pressure at which liquid initially condenses from a gas or vapor.
The removal of free water at the point of accumulation.
The difference between any two pressures.
A device that segments flow to measure the volume of a fluid.
The product that is condensed from vapor to liquid after a thermal distillation process.
The process of separating a multiple component feed of differing boiling points using selective vaporization and condensation into two or more products.
Refer to definition of "ASTM distillation."
A horizontal device in a tower that holds liquid and provides a vapor-liquid contact.
Any system of pipelines and other equipment by which natural gas or other products are distributed to customers, lease operations, or other points of consumption.
Chemical compounds containing a sulfur-sulfur linkage.
Hydrocarbon liquid that separates in a pipeline transporting gas into equipment from which the liquid can be removed. Refer to definition of "condensate."
(1) Gas whose water content has been reduced by a dehydration process. (2) Gas containing little or no commercially recoverable hydrocarbons as liquid product. Gas in this second definition would preferably be referred to as lean gas.
