ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,973, issued on Sept. 9.
"Natural gas conditioning and NGL recovery" was invented by James M. Meyer (Golden, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rich natural gas is first compressed, and then cooled by a series of heat exchangers and an ambient air cooler. The cooled mixture of natural gas, natural gas liquid (NGL), and water is first separated in a high-pressure three-phase separator. NGL flows through a depressurization valve and NGL is separated from gas in a second separator for storage and transport such as in a conventional propane tank. A resulting lean natural gas is suitably conditioned for internal combustion, compressed n...