APPARATUS FOR TREATING FLUID STREAMS

摘要

An apparatus and method for increasing and regulating temperature, pressure and fluid viscosities of fluid streams found in oil and gas production. The apparatus regulates and increases fluid temperatures, is placed at one or more locations along a wellbore surface flow line, or subsea flow line. The apparatus heats fluids flowing from the reservoir to the surface, or heats fluids injected from the surface into the reservoir. An elongated, polygonal shaped tubular heating member with a plurality of fins radially extending from the flat surfaces of the polygonal shaped member, a tubular mixing member axially aligned with the polygonal shaped tubular member. A tubular mixing member having apertures therein and a shroud enclosing said polygonal shaped heating member and tubular mixing member, forms a heating chamber and a mixing chamber. The tool comprises a plurality of polygonal shaped heating members and tubular mixing members, axially aligned in alternating series.