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公开(公告)号:US20210381760A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-09
申请号:US17393477
申请日:2021-08-04
发明人: John MAK
IPC分类号: F25J3/02
摘要: 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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公开(公告)号:US11112175B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-07
申请号:US15789463
申请日:2017-10-20
发明人: John Mak
IPC分类号: F25J3/02
摘要: 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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公开(公告)号:US11112173B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-07
申请号:US15201070
申请日:2016-07-01
发明人: John Mak
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US10704832B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-07
申请号:US15988310
申请日:2018-05-24
发明人: John Mak
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US10590349B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-17
申请号:US15621596
申请日:2017-06-13
发明人: Paul E. Koppel , Ravi Ravikumar
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US20190301795A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-03
申请号:US16434742
申请日:2019-06-07
发明人: John MAK
摘要: Gas processing plants and methods are contemplated in CO2 is effectively removed to very low levels from a feed gas to an NRU unit by adding a physical solvent unit that uses waste nitrogen produced by the NRU as stripping gas to produce an ultra-lean solvent, which is then used to treat the feed gas to the NRU unit. Most preferably, the physical solvent unit includes a flash unit and stripper column to produce the ultra-lean solvent.
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公开(公告)号:US20180355257A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-13
申请号:US16053014
申请日:2018-08-02
IPC分类号: C10G7/00
CPC分类号: C10G7/00 , C10G2300/308 , C10G2300/4056 , Y10T29/49716
摘要: Plants and methods are presented for crude feed pre-processing before feeding the crude feed into a crude unit or vacuum unit. Pre-processing is preferably achieved with a combination of a preflash drum and a preflash column that allows for high-temperature treatment of the liquids and separate vapor phase handling, which advantageously enables retrofitting existing plants to accommodate lighter crude feeds.
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公开(公告)号:US20180326353A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-15
申请号:US16034452
申请日:2018-07-13
发明人: Satish REDDY , Joseph YONKOSKI
CPC分类号: B01D53/79 , B01D53/1475 , B01D53/32 , B01D53/323 , B01D53/54 , B01D53/58 , B01D53/62 , B01D53/72 , B01D2252/102 , B01D2252/2021 , B01D2252/204 , B01D2252/20405 , B01D2252/20447 , B01D2252/20484 , B01D2252/20489 , B01D2257/504 , B01D2258/0283 , B01D2259/818 , Y02A50/2342 , Y02C10/04 , Y02C10/06
摘要: Systems and processes for reducing carbon capture emissions are described. The process involves introducing a radical species into a decarbonized combustion gas. The radical species react with residual amines or unwanted compounds in the decarbonized combustion gas, thus reducing the concentration of residual amines or unwanted compounds in the exhaust gas. The system includes a carbon capture absorber with non-thermal plasma generator configured to provide radical species reducing the concentration of residual amines or unwanted compounds in the exhaust combustion gas.
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公开(公告)号:US10112829B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-30
申请号:US15000389
申请日:2016-01-19
发明人: Ravi Ravikumar , Paul M. Mathias
摘要: A method of producing hydrogen comprising receiving a sour gas comprising CO2, H2S, and ammonia from a sour water stripper; introducing the sour gas to an absorption system to produce an ammonia rich gas and a sulfide rich gas, wherein the ammonia rich gas comprises ammonia and CO2, and wherein the sulfide rich gas comprises H2S and CO2; compressing the ammonia rich gas in a compressing unit to a pressure of 400-600 psig to produce a compressed ammonia rich gas; introducing the compressed ammonia rich gas to an ammonia cracker unit comprising a catalyst to produce a cracked gas, wherein the ammonia cracker unit is characterized by a cracking temperature of 450-550° C., and wherein the cracked gas comprises hydrogen, nitrogen, and CO2; and introducing the cracked gas to a PSA unit to produce hydrogen and a PSA tail gas, wherein the PSA tail gas comprises nitrogen and CO2.
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公开(公告)号:US10077938B2
公开(公告)日:2018-09-18
申请号:US15019570
申请日:2016-02-09
发明人: John Mak
CPC分类号: F25J3/0242 , C10L3/12 , F25J3/0209 , F25J3/0233 , F25J3/0238 , F25J2200/02 , F25J2200/04 , F25J2200/70 , F25J2200/76 , F25J2200/78 , F25J2205/04 , F25J2210/06 , F25J2215/02 , F25J2215/62 , F25J2230/60 , F25J2240/02 , F25J2245/02 , F25J2270/12 , F25J2270/60 , F25J2280/02
摘要: Separating propane and heavier hydrocarbons from a feed stream by cooling the feed stream, introducing the chilled feed stream into a feed stream separation unit, pumping the separator bottom stream, introducing the pressurized separator bottom stream into a stripper column, reducing the pressure of the separator overhead stream, introducing the letdown separator overhead stream into an absorber column, collecting a stripper overhead stream from the stripper column, chilling the stripper overhead stream, reducing the pressure of the chilled stripper overhead stream, introducing the letdown stripper overhead stream into the absorber column, collecting an absorber bottom stream, pumping the absorber bottom stream, heating the absorber bottom stream, introducing the heated absorber bottom stream into the stripper column, and collecting the stripper bottom stream from the stripper column. The stripper column bottom stream includes the propane and heavier hydrocarbons and less than about 2.0% of ethane by volume.
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