دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: a structure in which air contact is used to cool a stream of water that has been heated by circulation through a system. The air flows countercurrently or crosscurrently to the water.

n: see exploration well. field facility n: an installation designed for one or more specific field processing unitsscrubbers, absorbers, drip points, compressors, single- or multiple-stage separation units, low-temperature separators, and other types of separation and recovery equipment. See also battery.

stress sulfide cracking. Occurs when metal is in tension and exposed to H2S and water. Generates atomic hydrogen. Hydrogen moves between grains of the metal. Reduces metal ductility.

n pi: bundles of smalldiameter tubing tack-welded together in a concentric pattern and placed in the upstream section of an orifice-meter run for the purpose of reducing considerably the amount of straight pipe required upstream of the orifice. They eliminate swirls and crosscurrents set up by the pipe fittings and valves preceding the meter tube.