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US 11,787,995 B2Granted
Method for extracting hydrocarbons
AssigneeSo3 Plus, LLC
InventorThomas Earl Schmoyer
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Abstract
Portable/transportable apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating and delivering sulfur trioxide on-site or near an item to be treated is provided. A method for extracting hydrocarbons from deposits containing a clathrate hydrate such as methane hydrates includes a step of delivering sulfur trioxide to an ice deposit containing a clathrate hydrate and subsequently extracting linear or branched hydrocarbons.
Claims5
A method of extracting hydrocarbons comprising:
- providing a transportable system for on-demand sulfur trioxide generation at or near a well-site of an ice deposit containing a clathrate hydrate, the transportable system having
- a portable source of sulfur,
- a portable source of oxygen or air containing oxygen, and
- a converter fluidly or gaseously coupled to the portable source of sulfur and the portable source of oxygen or air and capable of catalyzing a reaction to generate sulfur trioxide from the sulfur and oxygen, wherein sulfur from the portable source of sulfur and oxygen from the portable source of sulfur are combined to generate sulfur trioxide and the transportable system has dimensions allowing for transport to the well-site;
- generating sulfur trioxide with the transportable system;
- delivering the sulfur trioxide to the ice deposit where the sulfur trioxide reacts with the clathrate hydrate to generate a hydrocarbon gas;
- and
- recovering the hydrocarbon gas.
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