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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
David G. Hammond, Fairfax, VA (US);
Jorge L. Soto, Centreville, VA (US);
F. Craig Moates, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
David G. Hammond, Fairfax, VA (US);
Jorge L. Soto, Centreville, VA (US);
F. Craig Moates, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
The embodiments of the present invention are characterized by degasifying a portion of a gas and slurry mixture in a three-phase slurry process and lowering the solids content of the degassed slurry portion to below about 20 wt %. The degassed and lowered solids content slurry portion is then introduced into a fines separation device for separation and removal of fines. The foregoing procedure has been found to increase the effectiveness of the fines separation device.