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US 10,895,133 B2Granted
Wet gas condenser
AssigneeGE Oil & Gas UK Limited
InventorMatthew Edmund Stone
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Abstract
A gas production line including: an inlet; an outlet; and a wet gas condenser connected between the inlet and the outlet, wherein the wet gas condenser includes: a condensing chamber; a condensing surface; and a collecting chamber, wherein, in use, water vapour in wet gas passing over the condensing surface is condensed into liquid water, the liquid water flowing along a predetermined flow path into the collecting chamber.
Claims20
A gas production line comprising:
- an inlet;
- an outlet;
- and
- a wet gas condenser connected between the inlet and the outlet, wherein the wet gas condenser comprises:
- a pump;
- a condensing chamber;
- a condensing surface;
- a collecting chamber;
- and
- a water sensor attached to a wall of the collecting chamber,
- wherein the water sensor is in communication with control circuitry to activate and deactivate the pump,
- wherein, in use, water vapour in wet gas passing over the condensing surface is condensed into liquid water,
- the liquid water flowing along a predetermined flow path into the collecting chamber.
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A method of removing water vapour from a wet gas flow in a gas production line, the method comprising:
- providing a wet gas condenser comprising a pump, a condensing chamber, a condensing surface, a collecting chamber, and a water sensor attached to a wall of the collecting chamber, wherein the water sensor is in communication with control circuitry to activate and deactivate the pump;
- connecting an inlet of the gas production line to the wet gas condenser;
- connecting an outlet of the gas production line to the wet gas condenser;
- and
- arranging the wet gas condenser such that water vapour in wet gas passing over the condensing surface is condensed into liquid water, the liquid water flowing along a predetermined flow path into the collecting chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.