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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:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2004
Applicants:
Arina Petronella Jacoba Hupkes-van Der Toorn, Legal Representative, Rijnsburg, NL;
Pei Jung Lin, Kaohsiung, TW;
Roland Pierre Silve, Sur, OM;
Kornelis Jan Vink, Sur, OM;
Inventors:
Arina Petronella Jacoba Hupkes-Van Der Toorn, legal representative, Rijnsburg, NL;
Pei Jung Lin, Kaohsiung, TW;
Roland Pierre Silve, Sur, OM;
Kornelis Jan Vink, Sur, OM;
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25J 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process of liquefying a gaseous, methane-rich feed to a liquefied product is provided that includes adjusting the composition and the amount of refrigerant and controlling the liquefaction process using an advanced process controller based on model predictive control to determine simultaneous control actions for a set of manipulated variables.