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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles A Durr, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
The M. W. Kellogg Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62 54 ; 220 / ;
Abstract
A method for sub-cooling normally gaseous hydrocarbon mixtures produced in a cryogenic process unit wherein the mixture is introduced to a gas/liquid separator, which may be a storage vessel, and vapor containing at least two components of the mixture is recovered as refrigerant, employed in an open cycle refrigeration system to sub-cool the hydrocarbon mixture, and returned to the separator. The system is particularly useful for sub-cooling a hydrocarbon product stream while, at the same time, recovering boil-off vapor from a cryogenic storage vessel.