Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integration of cold solvent and acid gas removal
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Application No.: US16102297Application Date: 2018-08-13
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Publication No.: US11000797B2Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Inventor: David W. Maher , Shwetha Ramkumar , P. Scott Northrop , Robert D. Denton
- Applicant: David W. Maher , Shwetha Ramkumar , P. Scott Northrop , Robert D. Denton
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring; US TX Cypress; US TX The Woodlands; US TX Bellaire
- Assignee: David W. Maher,Shwetha Ramkumar,P. Scott Northrop,Robert D. Denton
- Current Assignee: David W. Maher,Shwetha Ramkumar,P. Scott Northrop,Robert D. Denton
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring; US TX Cypress; US TX The Woodlands; US TX Bellaire
- Agency: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company—Law Department
- Main IPC: B01D53/14
- IPC: B01D53/14 ; B01D61/24 ; C10L3/10 ; B01D53/18 ; B01D53/22 ; B01D11/00

Abstract:
A method of separating impurities from a natural gas stream. The natural gas stream is cooled through heat exchange with one or more process streams to produce a chilled gas stream, which is contacted with a lean solvent stream in a contactor to separate hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from the chilled gas stream, thereby producing a rich solvent stream and a partially-treated gas stream. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and H2S are separated from the partially-treated gas stream in a membrane separation system, thereby creating a fully-treated gas stream and a permeate gas stream, the permeate gas stream being comprised primarily of H2S and CO2, and the fully-treated gas stream being comprised primarily of natural gas. The fully-treated gas stream and the permeate gas stream are at a lower temperature than the partially-treated gas stream. The fully-treated gas stream and the permeate gas stream comprise the one or more process streams.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190054416A1 Integration of Cold Solvent and Acid Gas Removal Public/Granted day:2019-02-21
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