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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2014
Dow Global Technologies Llc, Midland, MI (US);
Scott T. Matteucci, Midland, MI (US);
Ajay N. Badhwar, Houston, TX (US);
Nicholas J. Shurgott, Rosharon, TX (US);
H. Robert Goltz, Midland, MI (US);
Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for running natural gas powered stationary combustion systems, such as an internal combustion engine, a furnace, a fired heater, a power plant, an incinerator, and the like. In one embodiment of the present method, ethane and heavier hydrocarbons or propane and heavier hydrocarbons () are removed () from a natural gas feedstream () to provide the methane-rich natural gas stream () used to fuel the stationary combustion system (). One embodiment of this method provides for the use of a regenerable adsorbent media to remove the higher hydrocarbons which is regenerated by a microwave heating system. Said regeneration step may be operated as a batch process, a semi-continuous process, or a continuous process.