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US 4,268,245 AGranted
Offshore-subsea flares
AssigneeCombustion Unlimited Incorporated
InventorJohn F. Straitz, III
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Abstract
An ignitor is provided for offshore-subsea flares in which a flare, floating or fixed, is provided separated from an offshore drilling platform but connected by a subsea conduit or connection, preferably flexible, through which fuel gas is delivered to the flare for pilots and for ignitor gas for the pilots and which has provisions for insulated conductors for control of the pilot gas, the ignitor gas and for the ignition of the ignitor gas and indication of operating conditions.
Claims20
In combination,
- an offshore platform having a supply of combustible waste gas and means for supplying fuel gas,
- an offshore flare for combustion of waste gas in spaced relation to said platform and having a burner at its free end,
- said flare having a pilot to which fuel gas is supplied for igniting the waste gas delivered to said burner,
- means on said platform for activating said pilot,
- control means on said flare for said pilot,
- a submerged conduit for delivery of waste gas to said burner for combustion, and
- submerged connecting means between said platform and said flare comprising
- means for delivery of fuel gas to said pilot,
- and
- connecting means between said activating means on said platform and said control means on said flare.
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