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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies, U.s. Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Yong Ding, Wayland, MA (US);
Sandeep K. Karode, Boothwyn, PA (US);
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Natural gas may be purified by removing Chydrocarbons and COin respective one or more separation units to yield conditioned gas lower in Chydrocarbons and COin comparison to the un-conditioned natural gas. Notably, the feed gas need not be subjected to joule-thomson expansion and molecular sieve dehydration performed by conventional processes. Rather, any water-rich reject stream from the separation unit(s) is dried downstream with a smaller compressor and smaller molecular sieve or gas separation membrane dehydration unit before it may be re-injected deep underground or deep under the sea bed.