Method of feeding a substance with properties of reducing hydraulic resistance into a flow of hydrocarbons and method of transporting hydrocarbons

Abstract

The disclosed method of feeding a substance with properties of reducing hydraulic resistance into a flow of hydrocarbons, includes the following steps: supplying the substance in the form of an amorphous polymeric mass with at least one dissolution modifying agent to an inlet of a dosing device; adding a mixture produced at an outlet of the dosing device to a predetermined volume of hydrocarbons using a grinder to produce gel, suspension, or mixture thereof uniformly distributed over the volume of hydrocarbons; supplying the produced gel, suspension, or mixture thereof to the hydrocarbon stream in a pipeline using a pump; and the dosing of the dissolution modifying agent into the amorphous polymeric mass depends on at least one of the factors, including hydrocarbon parameters and length of the pipeline.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.