Electrical power coalescing

It is imperative that the design of the vessel asstue good gas removal and provide for distribution of the emulsion across the electrical grid. It is also essential to maintain the fluid in the liquid phase in the electrical coalescing section. Any vapor in the electrode area will be saturated with water. Any water-saturated vapors, which are highly conductive, will greatly increase the electrical power consumption. 

Inside the Debye sphere, strong electron acceleration takes place. The electrical field that surrounds the ion current channel accelerates the electrons toward the filaments where they are deflected on the induced magnetic field. The scenario is depicted in fig. 2. It have previously been shown that the ion filaments are generated in a self-similar coalescence process (Medvedev et al., 2004) which implies that a spatial Fourier decomposition exhibits power law behavior. As a result, the electrons are accelerated to a power law distribution function (fig. 3) as shown by Hededal et al., 2004. 

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