Mixed refrigerant system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12104849
APP PUB NO 20220373254A1
SERIAL NO

17881776

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A system and method for cooling a gas using a mixed refrigerant includes a compressor system and a heat exchange system, where the compressor system may include an interstage separation device or drum with no liquid outlet, a liquid outlet in fluid communication with a pump that pumps liquid forward to a high pressure separation device or a liquid outlet through which liquid flows to the heat exchanger to be subcooled. In the last situation, the subcooled liquid is expanded and combined with an expanded cold temperature stream, which is a cooled and expanded stream from the vapor side of a cold vapor separation device, and subcooled and expanded streams from liquid sides of the high pressure separation device and the cold vapor separation device, or combined with a stream formed from the subcooled streams from the liquid sides of the high pressure separation device and the cold vapor separation device after mixing and expansion, to form a primary refrigeration stream.

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CHART ENERGY & CHEMICALS INC2200 AIRPORT INDUSTRIAL DRIVE SUITE 100 BALL GROUND GA 30107

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Ducote,, Jr Douglas A The Woodlands, US 28 81
Podolski, James The Woodlands, US 7 46

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