System and method for treating associated gas

A method for treating associated gas comprising:

• (a) providing a stream of raw gas;
• (b) passing the stream of the raw gas through safety valving;
• c) passing the raw gas through an inlet pressure control valve to control a flow rate of the raw gas;
• (d) passing the raw gas through an inlet scrubber to generate scrubbed gas;
• (e) transmitting pressure and temperature data for the raw gas to a control system via a pressure transducer and a temperature transducer that are located on the inlet scrubber;
• (f) sending the scrubbed gas to a gas compressor to generate pressurized gas;
• (g) sending the pressurized gas to an aerial cooler that uses ambient air to reduce a temperature of the pressurized gas to a first desired temperature setpoint;
• (h) sending the pressurized gas to a chiller heat exchanger, wherein a chilling media cooled by a refrigeration system to a second desired temperature setpoint reduces the temperature of the pressurized gas through the chiller heat exchanger, thereby generating chilled pressurized gas;
• (i) sending the chilled pressurized gas to a vapor liquid separator to generate processed gas;
• (j) routing the processed gas either through a system backpressure valve or through a pressure reducing recycle valve that directs the processed gas to the inlet scrubber;
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• (k) delivering the processed gas that has passed through the system backpressure valve as fuel or routing the processed gas through a backpressure regulating recycle valve that directs the processed gas to the inlet pressure control valve.