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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2017
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Raghunath Gopal Menon, Katy, TX (US);
Juan Pablo Pontaza, Katy, TX (US);
SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a piping system () at least comprising a main pipeline () and a side branch pipeline (), wherein the side branch pipeline () meets the main pipeline () at a junction (), wherein the side branch pipeline () is provided with a perforated plate () having a plurality of perforations (), wherein the perforated plate () has a downstream half (B) and an upstream half (A) (relative to the flow direction in the main pipeline ()), wherein the downstream half (B) has less open area than the upstream half (A), and wherein the perforated plate () is provided with a protrusion (), at the side of the perforated plate () facing away from the junction ().