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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2020
Applicant:
Solideum Inc., Calgary, CA;
Inventors:
Ian Donald Gates, Calgary, CA;
Jingyi Wang, Calgary, CA;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 31/06 (2006.01); C10G 9/14 (2006.01); C10G 9/18 (2006.01); C10G 9/00 (2006.01); C10G 9/24 (2006.01); C10G 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 31/06 (2013.01); C10G 9/002 (2013.01); C10G 9/14 (2013.01); C10G 9/18 (2013.01); C10G 9/24 (2013.01); C10G 9/36 (2013.01); C10G 2300/4006 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention provides methods for treating a source oil phase consisting of heavy oil, bitumen, a mixture of heavy oil and bitumen, a mixture of solvent and heavy oil or bitumen or both. The method comprises: introducing the source oil phase to a lower reservoir section of a device, flowing the source oil phase through an array of vertically extending heated pipes with an inert gas so as to thermally separate a vaporized light oil phase component from a heated liquid source oil phase, and segregating fluid flows by density in an upper fluid separating manifold to provide a light product fluid and a heavy product fluid.