demethanizer

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noun

A device that removes methane from a (petroleum) gas mixture

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Meanings

noundemethanizer (plural demethanizers)

plural demethanizers

  1. A device that removes methane from a (petroleum) gas mixture

    Four different fields realize an NER tot increase by greater than 4 times the base value when the gas processing intensity is set to low processing intensity (e.g., turn off acid gas removal, demethanizer, and dehydrator).

    2015 December 23, “Energy Return on Investment (EROI) for Forty Global Oilfields Using a Detailed Engineering-Based Model of Oil Production”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From demethanize + -er.

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