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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2020
Sustainable Energy Solutions, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Larry Baxter, Orem, UT (US);
Stephanie Burt, Provo, UT (US);
Dave Frankman, Provo, UT (US);
Christopher Hoeger, Provo, UT (US);
Eric Mansfield, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
Skyler Chamberlain, Provo, UT (US);
Kyler Stitt, Lindon, UT (US);
Sustainable Energy Solutions, Inc, Orem, UT (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for separating a desublimatable compound from hydrocarbons is disclosed. A feed fluid stream, consisting of a hydrocarbon and a desublimatable compound, is passed into an upper chamber of a vessel. The feed fluid stream is cooled in the upper chamber, thereby desublimating a portion of the desublimatable compound out of the feed liquid stream to form a product gas stream and a desublimatable compound snow which is collected in the lower chamber of the vessel. A lower portion of the desublimatable compound snow is melted to form a liquid desublimatable compound stream such that an upper portion of the solid desublimatable compound snow remains as an insulative barrier between the upper chamber and the liquid desublimatable compound stream. The liquid desublimatable compound stream is removed at a rate that matches a production rate of the solid desublimatable compound snow, thereby maintaining the insulative barrier.