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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.:

US 9863581 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2013

Virtual gaseous fuel pipeline

Applicant:

Oscomp Holdings Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Pedro T. Santos, Houston, TX (US);

Scott Rackey, Bedford, MA (US);

Jeremy Pitts, Boston, MA (US);

Aaron Hilber, Houston, TX (US);

Kolar L. Seshasai, Houston, TX (US);

Pedro Vergel, Houston, TX (US);

Jimmy Romanos, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

NEARSHORE NATURAL GAS, LLC, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Timothy L Maust

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 13/00 (2006.01); F17C 5/06 (2006.01); F17C 7/00 (2006.01); F17C 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 13/00 (2013.01); F17C 5/02 (2013.01); F17C 5/06 (2013.01); F17C 7/00 (2013.01); F17C 2201/0109 (2013.01); F17C 2201/035 (2013.01); F17C 2201/054 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0107 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0111 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0142 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0146 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0176 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0352 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0397 (2013.01); F17C 2221/033 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0123 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2223/033 (2013.01); F17C 2223/035 (2013.01); F17C 2225/0123 (2013.01); F17C 2225/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2225/033 (2013.01); F17C 2225/035 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0346 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0397 (2013.01); F17C 2250/034 (2013.01); F17C 2250/036 (2013.01); F17C 2250/043 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0439 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0443 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0447 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0456 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0478 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0652 (2013.01); F17C 2265/061 (2013.01); F17C 2265/063 (2013.01); F17C 2265/065 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0171 (2013.01); Y10T 137/0318 (2015.04);
Abstract

Various embodiments provide an end-to-end gaseous fuel transportation solution without using physical pipelines. A virtual pipeline system and methods thereof may involve transportation of gaseous fuels including compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), and/or adsorbed natural gas (ANG). An exemplary pipeline system may include a gas supply station, a mother station for treating gaseous fuels from the gas supply station, a mobile transport system for receiving and transporting the gaseous fuels, and a user site for unloading the gaseous fuels from the mobile transport system. The unloaded gaseous fuels can be further used or distributed.

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