دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: 1. water produced with oil. It usually settles out within five minutes when the well fluids become stationary in a settling space within a vessel. Compare emulsified water. 2. the measured volume of water that is present in a container and that is not in suspension in the contained liquid at observed temperature.

1. the excess water that separates from a cement slurry on standing. 2. the first water that separates from the crude oil in the first stage of the separator (free water knockout or FWKO).

n: (FWKO) a vertical or horizontal vessel into which oil or emulsion is run to allow any water not emulsified with the oil (free water) to drop out.

abbr: free-water knockout.

see Free Water Knockout.