Method and Apparatus for Continuous Removal of Water Vapors from Gases

    公开(公告)号:US20180200668A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-19

    申请号:US15410106

    申请日:2017-01-19

    Abstract: A method for continuously removing water vapor from a carrier gas is disclosed. This method includes, first, causing direct contact of the carrier gas with a liquid mixture in a separation chamber, the carrier gas condensing at a lower temperature than the water vapor. A combination of chemical effects cause the water vapor to condense, complex, or both condense and complex with the liquid mixture. The liquid mixture is chosen from the group consisting of: first, a combination of components that can be maintained in a liquid phase at a temperature below the water vapor's condensation point, whereby the water vapor condenses into the liquid mixture; second, a combination of components where at least one component forms a chemical complex with the water vapor and thereby extracts at least a portion of the water vapor from the carrier gas; and third, a combination of components that can both be maintained in a liquid phase at a temperature below the water vapor's condensation point, and wherein at least one component forms a chemical complex with the water vapor and thereby extracts at least a portion of the water vapor from the carrier gas. The liquid mixture is then reconstituted after passing through the separation chamber by a chemical separation process chosen to remove an equivalent amount of the water vapor from the liquid mixture as was removed from the carrier gas. The reconstituted liquid mixture is restored to temperature and pressure through heat exchange, compression, and expansion, as necessary, in preparation for recycling back to the separation chamber. The liquid mixture is then returned to the separation chamber. In this manner, the carrier gas leaving the exchanger has between 1% and 100% of the water vapor removed.

    Reservoir Simulation
    35.
    发明申请
    Reservoir Simulation 审中-公开
    水库模拟

    公开(公告)号:US20080167849A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-07-10

    申请号:US11570218

    申请日:2005-06-04

    CPC classification number: G01N33/28 E21B43/00

    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for simulating pressures and saturations of oil, gas, and water in an oil reservoir with production and injection wells, which include (1) using of new approximating linear algebraic (finite difference) equations that more accurately represent actual pressures by basing the equations on new functional forms: ln(r) or 1/r, (2) solve the set equations using by defining a coarse grid array and a fine grid array nested in the fine grid array, and solving the coarse grid array and using the resulting solution to fix points in the fine grid array before it is solved, and (3) defining and solving a dynamic grid array based upon constant saturation contours.

    Abstract translation: 公开了用于模拟具有生产和注入井的油藏中的油,气和水的压力和饱和度的方法,其包括(1)使用新近似线性代数(有限差分)方程,其更准确地代表实际压力,基于 新的函数形式的方程式:ln(r)或1 / r,(2)通过定义粗网格数组和嵌套在精细网格数组中的精细网格数组求解集合方程,并求解粗网格数组,并使用 得到解决方案,在解决精细网格数组之前修复点,以及(3)基于恒定饱和轮廓定义和求解动态网格数组。

    System with a direct contact desublimating heat exchanger and temperature regulation

    公开(公告)号:US10722812B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-28

    申请号:US15488784

    申请日:2017-04-17

    Abstract: A process to prevent fouling using a desublimating heat exchanger is disclosed. An outlet stream from the desublimating heat exchanger may be split into a plurality of parallel streams. The parallel streams may be sent through a plurality of discrete unit operations, and the unit operations may change the temperature of at least one of the parallel streams. Parallel streams of differing temperature may emerge from the unit operations. The parallel streams which are of a similar temperature may be mixed to form a warm stream and a cool stream. The warm stream and the cool stream may be sent to a mixing chamber. A mixed stream of substantially uniform temperature may emerge from the mixing chamber, and the mixed stream may be recycled back to the desublimating heat exchanger. The mixing chamber may be separate from the desublimating heat exchanger, or the parallel streams of differing temperature may be mixed in the desublimating heat exchanger.

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