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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
Honeywell Lng Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Mark Julian Roberts, Whitehall, PA (US);
Justin David Bukowski, Hamburg, PA (US);
Christopher Michael Ott, Macungie, PA (US);
HONEYWELL LNG LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and process for heavy hydrocarbon (e.g., oils that include ten or more carbons, C10+ hydrocarbons, etc.) removal from a natural gas feed (e.g., a feed comprised of methane and impurities such as water and heavy hydrocarbons) can include utilization of one or more coalescing filters to provide adsorption of atomized (e.g., liquid) heavy hydrocarbons that can be present within the feed prior to the feed being fed to one or more adsorbers for adsorption of heavy hydrocarbon vapor via activated carbon beds within those adsorbers. Embodiments can be provided so that the size of downstream activated carbon bed adsorbers can be significantly reduced while also allowing such beds to have a longer life before needing to be replaced.