demethanizer
English edit
Etymology edit
demethanize + -er
Noun edit
demethanizer (plural demethanizers)
- A device that removes methane from a (petroleum) gas mixture
- 2015 December 23, “Energy Return on Investment (EROI) for Forty Global Oilfields Using a Detailed Engineering-Based Model of Oil Production”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- 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).