All-in-One Skid Assembly
OwnerThomas Kunkelinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is an assembly that is an all-in-one combination of piping and equipment systems designed to provide a compact, simple, pre-fabricated assembly on single skid platform to meet all the functional needs of a petrochemical gas compression facility. The skid platform assembly provides a traveling pathway for the fluid generated from a well and is designed to provide all required pre-compressor and post-compressor functional equipment needs for each individual installed gas compressor. The skid platform assembly comprises an integrated liquid separator that also functions as a common liquid sump for all liquid generated by the pre-compressor and post-compressor functional equipment.
Claims24
An All-in-One skid for use with an individual compressor, the skid comprising a plurality of functional equipment used to operate a petrochemical gas gathering compressor facility and providing a traveling pathway for fluid generated from a well to the individual compressor and from the individual compressor to a utility gas service, the fluid being comprised of gas and condensate the skid being comprised of:
- a common gas inlet pipe header that receives the fluid generated from a well, a skid gas inlet pipe connecting the common gas inlet pipe header to an integral inlet separator, the integral inlet separator functioning to separate out the gas from the condensate in the fluid generated from a well and accumulating a condensate level inside, wherein the condensate can be drained from the integral inlet separator via an integral inlet separator drain pipe;
- the integral inlet separator being sized to process a flow as required by the individual compressor, and the integral inlet separator being fluidly connected to each one of the plurality functional equipment and to the individual compressor,
- wherein the plurality of functional equipment is comprised of pre-compressor functional equipment and post-compressor functional equipment;
- wherein the gas travels through each one of the plurality of pre-compressor functional equipment into the individual compressor, the individual compressor transforming the gas into compressor discharge gas, the compressor discharge gas then travels through each one of the plurality of post-compressor functional equipment and ultimately through a common gas discharge pipe header ending at the utility gas service, and wherein any condensate generated by each one of the plurality functional equipment and individual compressor ultimately drains back into to the integral inlet separator.
An assembly comprising a plurality of pre-compressor systems and a plurality of post-compressor systems for use in a petrochemical gas gathering compressor facility;
- the assembly being a single skid platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.