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- Patent Title: Modified Goswami cycle based conversion of gas processing plant waste heat into power and cooling with flexibility
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Application No.: US16131264Application Date: 2018-09-14
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Publication No.: US10174640B1Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Mahmoud Bahy Mahmoud Noureldin , Akram Hamed Mohamed Kamel
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: F01K13/00
- IPC: F01K13/00 ; F01K21/00 ; F01K25/06 ; F01K7/16 ; F25B9/00 ; F28D15/00 ; F25B43/00 ; F25B11/02 ; F25J3/06 ; F01K23/08 ; F01K25/10 ; F01K7/02 ; F25B5/02 ; F25B39/00 ; F01K23/04 ; F01K25/08 ; F25B1/06 ; F25J3/02 ; F28D21/00

Abstract:
A system includes a waste heat recovery heat exchanger configured to heat a heating fluid stream by exchange with a heat source in a crude oil associated gas processing plant; and a modified Goswami energy conversion system. The modified Goswami energy conversion system includes a first group of heat exchangers configured to heat a first portion of a working fluid by exchange with the heated heating fluid stream; and a second group of heat exchangers configured to heat a second portion of the working fluid. The modified Goswami energy conversion system includes a rectifier configured to receive the heated first and second portions of the working fluid and a third portion of the working fluid and to output an overhead discharge stream and a liquid stream, the third portion of the working fluid being at a lower temperature than the heated first and second portions of the working fluid. The modified Goswami energy conversion system includes a cooling subsystem including one or more cooling elements configured to cool a chilling fluid stream by exchange with the overhead discharge stream; and a turbine configured to generate power from the liquid stream of the working fluid.
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