Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sequential removal of NGLs from a natural gas stream
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Application No.: US15114962Application Date: 2014-08-05
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Publication No.: US09976091B2Publication Date: 2018-05-22
- Inventor: Scott T. Matteucci , H. Robert Goltz , Ajay N. Badhwar , Nicholas J. Shurgott , Jonathan W. Leister
- Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Midland
- Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Midland
- International Application: PCT/US2014/049784 WO 20140805
- International Announcement: WO2015/142380 WO 20150924
- Main IPC: C10G5/02
- IPC: C10G5/02 ; B01D53/04 ; C10L3/10 ; B01D15/18 ; B01D15/20 ; B01D53/047 ; B01D53/08

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of sequentially separating and recovering one or more NGLs (129, 229) from a natural gas feedstream (3). Specifically, a raw natural gas feedstream (3) is passed through two or more NGLs separation unit (100, 200) wherein each separation unit removes one or more NGLs from the natural gas feedstream to provide a methane-rich natural gas supply (205). Each separation unit employs an adsorption media and has an adsorption step and a media regeneration step wherein the regeneration step may be operated as a batch process, a semi-continuous process, or a continuous process. One embodiment of this method provides for the use of a different regenerable adsorbent media in each separation unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160340596A1 SEQUENTIAL REMOVAL OF NGLS FROM A NATURAL GAS STREAM Public/Granted day:2016-11-24
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