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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles R Mims, Sumrall, MS (US);
Assignee:
Mark Industries, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
55 20 ; 55 31 ; 55 32 ; 55 48 ; 55160 ; 55208 ; 55222 ; 55234 ;
Abstract
A natural gas separation and dehydration system includes a separation stage wherein the gas is expanded to effect removal of liquid water and liquid hydrocarbons. The flow of raw gas to the separation stage may be directly from the well or via a heat exchanger in which the gas is heated by heat exchange with hot glycol, the flow being controlled in response to the temperature in the separation stage so as to maintain a desired temperature range in the latter. The gas flows from the separation stage to a dehydrator stage of special construction wherein the gas flows in both co-current and counter-current relationship with glycol.