Definitions of words and terms used in the gas processing industry.
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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.
