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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Catherine S Chen, Berkely Heights, NJ (US);
Steven E Wentzek, Pennington, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
585803 ; 585352 ; 585867 ; 208337 ; 208341 ;
Abstract
A process is disclosed for separating diamondoid compounds from a natural gas stream containing the same comprising the steps of contacting the natural gas stream with a selected solvent and fractionating the sorbed diamondoids from the diamondoid-enriched solvent in a vacuum separation stage in the absence of reflux. Polyalphaolefin solvents are preferred, and polyalphaolefin solvents enriched in C.sub.30 oligomers are more preferred.