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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Paul Clinton, The Hague, NL;
Marcus Johannes Antonius Van Dongen, The Hague, NL;
Nishant Gupta, The Hague, NL;
Paul Clinton, The Hague, NL;
Marcus Johannes Antonius Van Dongen, The Hague, NL;
Nishant Gupta, The Hague, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for reducing one or more additives in a gaseous hydrocarbon stream () such as natural gas, comprising the steps of: (a) admixing an initial hydrocarbon feed stream () with one or more additives () to provide a multiphase hydrocarbon stream (); (b) passing the multiphase hydrocarbon stream () from a first location (A) to a second location (B); (c) at the second location (B), passing the multiphase hydrocarbon stream () through a separator () to provide one or more liquid streams () comprising the majority of the one or more additives, and a gaseous hydrocarbon stream () comprising the remainder of the one or more additives; and (d) washing the gaseous hydrocarbon stream () in a decontamination unit () with a washing stream (), wherein the washing stream () comprises distilled water, to provide an additive-enriched stream () and an additive-reduced hydrocarbon stream ().