Drip eliminators are designed to separate the dropping liquid from the gas flow and are portable devices in which the trapped liquid does not accumulate, but is immediately discharged into a lower container. Drop eliminators are used for additional separation of the gas flow that has left the main oil and gas separator, and provide final gas purification from dropping liquid, which can rise and leave with the gas flow from the main apparatus as a result of foaming or temporary disruption of the technological regime.

Separating elements are used in drop eliminators: string drop eliminators, mesh sleeve-knitted nozzles. Remote drop eliminators provide entrainment of drop liquid no more than 30 milligrams/m3 of gas. Special material design allows the use of remote droplet eliminators for gases containing aggressive media: carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.