Invention Application
- Patent Title: Process for Regasifying a Gas Hydrate Slurry
- Patent Title (中): 再生天然气水合物浆料的工艺
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Application No.: US12085965Application Date: 2006-11-22
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Publication No.: US20090230025A1Publication Date: 2009-09-17
- Inventor: Carl Boles Argo , Roger Neil Harper , David Charles King , Michael Bernard Power , Peter Willcox
- Applicant: Carl Boles Argo , Roger Neil Harper , David Charles King , Michael Bernard Power , Peter Willcox
- Applicant Address: GB Sun-on-Thames
- Assignee: BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY LIMITED
- Current Assignee: BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Sun-on-Thames
- Priority: EP05257496.9 20051206
- International Application: PCT/GB2006/004361 WO 20061122
- Main IPC: C10G33/00
- IPC: C10G33/00

Abstract:
A continuous process for regasifying a feed stream comprising (i) a slurry phase comprising gas hydrate particles suspended in a produced liquid hydrocarbon and optionally free produced water and (ii) optionally a gaseous phase comprising free produced gaseous hydrocarbon thereby generating a regasified multiphase fluid and for separating the regasified multiphase fluid into its component fluids, comprising the steps of: (a) heating the feed stream to above the dissociation temperature of the gas hydrate thereby regasifying the feed stream by converting the gas hydrate particles into gaseous hydrocarbon and water; (b) separating a gaseous hydrocarbon phase from the regasified multiphase fluid thereby forming a gaseous hydrocarbon product stream and a liquid stream comprising a mixture of liquid hydrocarbon and water; (c) separating the liquid stream comprising a mixture of the liquid hydrocarbon and water into a liquid hydrocarbon phase and an aqueous phase; and (d) removing the liquid hydrocarbon phase as a liquid hydrocarbon product stream.
Public/Granted literature
- US08008533B2 Process for regasifying a gas hydrate slurry Public/Granted day:2011-08-30
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