Pipeline interchange/transmix
AssigneePhillips 66 Company
InventorsPaul Rady, Marisa Purificato, Franklin Uba, Ayuba Fasasi
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a pipeline interchange flows a product through an upstream pipeline. An automated analyzer is connected to the upstream pipeline to analyze different physical and/or chemically properties in the product and generate data from the product without extracting a sample from the upstream pipeline. An automatic splitter is placed downstream of the automated analyzer, capable of receiving and interpreting the data from the automated analyzer and directing the refined petroleum product into at least three different downstream pipelines, wherein at least one of the downstream pipelines is a transmix pipeline.
Claims12
A pipeline interchange comprising:
- a product flowing through an upstream pipeline;
- an automated analyzer connected to the upstream pipeline wherein the automated analyzer physically or chemically analyzes the product and generates data from the product without extracting a sample from the upstream pipeline;
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- an automatic splitter, downstream of the automated analyzer, capable of receiving and interpreting the data from the automated slipstream analyzer and directing the refined petroleum product into at least three different downstream pipelines, wherein at least one of the downstream pipelines is a transmix pipeline.
A pipeline interchange comprising:
- a refined petroleum product flowing through an upstream pipeline;
- an automated analyzer connected to the upstream pipeline wherein the automated analyzer chemically analyzes the refined petroleum product and generates data from the refined petroleum product without extracting a sample from the upstream pipeline;
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- an automatic splitter, downstream of the automated analyzer, capable of receiving and interpreting the data from the automated analyzer and directing the refined petroleum product into at least three different downstream pipelines, wherein at least one of the downstream pipelines is a transmix pipeline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.