CONFIGURATIONS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SULFUR-CONTAINING VENT GASES
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    发明申请
    CONFIGURATIONS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SULFUR-CONTAINING VENT GASES 有权
    含硫气体气体的配置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130071315A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-21

    申请号:US13624566

    申请日:2012-09-21

    CPC classification number: C01B17/0232 B01D19/0005 C01B17/0404 C01B17/0408

    Abstract: Sulfur emissions from liquid sulfur are reduced, or even entirely avoided by degassing the liquid sulfur at pressure in an out-of-pit vessel and by sweeping the rundown pit (or vessel) with a sweep gas that is non-poisonous for a hydrogenation catalyst. Acid gases from degassing are fed at pressure to the Claus unit, while sweep gases are fed to the tail gas treatment unit to substantially recycle the acid gases to extinction. In preferred plants and methods, motive fluids and booster eductors or compressors are not needed, and incineration of the acid gases can be avoided.

    Abstract translation: 液体硫的硫排放量减少甚至完全避免,通过在井外容器内的压力下对液态硫进行脱气,以及用无氢化催化剂的吹扫气体清扫破碎坑(或容器) 。 来自脱气的酸性气体在压力下进料到克劳斯单元,同时吹扫气体被供给到尾气处理单元以基本上将酸性气体再循环到灭火。 在优选的设备和方法中,不需要运动流体和增压喷射器或压缩机,并且可以避免酸性气体的焚烧。

    PHASE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATURAL GAS LIQUID RECOVERY PLANTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210381760A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US17393477

    申请日:2021-08-04

    Inventor: John MAK

    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for operating a natural gas liquids plant in ethane rejection and in ethane recovery. A natural gas liquid plant may comprise an absorber configured to produce an ethane rich bottom stream and an ethane depleted vapor stream; a stripper fluidly coupled to the absorber configured to, during ethane rejection, fractionate the ethane rich bottom stream from the absorber into an ethane overhead product and a propane plus hydrocarbons product, and configured to, during ethane recovery, fractionate the ethane rich bottom stream into an ethane plus NGL stream and an overhead vapor stream; and an exchanger configured to, during ethane recovery, counter-currently contact the ethane rich bottom stream from the absorber with the ethane depleted vapor stream from the absorber, thereby heating the vapor stream and chilling the ethane rich bottom stream before the ethane rich bottom stream is fed to the stripper.

    Phase implementation of natural gas liquid recovery plants

    公开(公告)号:US11112175B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-07

    申请号:US15789463

    申请日:2017-10-20

    Inventor: John Mak

    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for operating a natural gas liquids plant in ethane rejection and in ethane recovery. A natural gas liquid plant may comprise an absorber configured to produce an ethane rich bottom stream and an ethane depleted vapor stream; a stripper fluidly coupled to the absorber configured to, during ethane rejection, fractionate the ethane rich bottom stream from the absorber into an ethane overhead product and a propane plus hydrocarbons product, and configured to, during ethane recovery, fractionate the ethane rich bottom stream into an ethane plus NGL stream and an overhead vapor stream; and an exchanger configured to, during ethane recovery, counter-currently contact the ethane rich bottom stream from the absorber with the ethane depleted vapor stream from the absorber, thereby heating the vapor stream and chilling the ethane rich bottom stream before the ethane rich bottom stream is fed to the stripper.

    Configurations and methods for small scale LNG production

    公开(公告)号:US11112173B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-07

    申请号:US15201070

    申请日:2016-07-01

    Inventor: John Mak

    Abstract: An LNG plant comprises a cold box and a refrigeration unit fluidly coupled with a plurality of heat exchanger passes in the cold box. The refrigeration unit is configured to provide a first refrigerant stream to a first heat exchanger pass of the plurality of heat exchanger passes at a first pressure, a second refrigerant stream to a second heat exchanger pass at a second pressure, and a third refrigerant stream to a third heat exchanger pass at a third pressure. The second refrigerant stream comprises a first portion of the first refrigerant stream, and the third refrigerant stream comprises a second portion of the first refrigerant stream. The second pressure and the third pressure are both below the first pressure. The cold box is configured to produce LNG from a natural gas feed stream to the cold box using a refrigeration content from the refrigeration unit.

    Ethane recovery or ethane rejection operation

    公开(公告)号:US10704832B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15988310

    申请日:2018-05-24

    Inventor: John Mak

    Abstract: A method for operating a natural gas liquids processing (NGL) system, the system being selectively configured in either an ethane rejection configuration or an ethane recovery configuration, the method comprising, when the NGL system is in the ethane rejection configuration, collecting a reboiler bottom stream that, in the ethane rejection configuration, includes ethane in an amount of less than 5% by volume, and when the NGL system is in the ethane recovery configuration, collecting a reboiler bottom stream that, in the ethane recovery configuration, includes ethane in an amount of at least about 30% by volume.

    Processing of gasification tars to high yields of BTX

    公开(公告)号:US10590349B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US15621596

    申请日:2017-06-13

    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and method for processing tars to produce benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX). A method for processing tars may comprise distilling the tars to separate creosotes and pitch; and processing the pitch via hydropyrolysis, including both hydrogenation and hydrocracking functions, to remove heteroatoms and break down polyaromatics in the pitch and produce monoaromatics, such as BTX. A system for processing tars may comprise one or more of the following: an input stream comprising tars feeding into a column; the column configured to separate the tars into one or more creosote streams and a pitch stream; and a reactor (or a series of reactors, or beds within a single reactor), wherein the pitch stream is fed to the reactor along with a stream of hydrogen, wherein the reactor is configured to break down the pitch to produce BTX.

    PHASE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATURAL GAS LIQUID RECOVERY PLANTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190120550A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US15789463

    申请日:2017-10-20

    Inventor: John Mak

    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for operating a natural gas liquids plant in ethane rejection and in ethane recovery. A natural gas liquid plant may comprise an absorber configured to produce an ethane rich bottom stream and an ethane depleted vapor stream; a stripper fluidly coupled to the absorber configured to, during ethane rejection, fractionate the ethane rich bottom stream from the absorber into an ethane overhead product and a propane plus hydrocarbons product, and configured to, during ethane recovery, fractionate the ethane rich bottom stream into an ethane plus NGL stream and an overhead vapor stream; and an exchanger configured to, during ethane recovery, counter-currently contact the ethane rich bottom stream from the absorber with the ethane depleted vapor stream from the absorber, thereby heating the vapor stream and chilling the ethane rich bottom stream before the ethane rich bottom stream is fed to the stripper.

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