US Patent Issued to Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. on July 1 for "System and method for recovery of fuel gas from crude oil purification" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,806, issued on July 1, was assigned to Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC (Houston).

"System and method for recovery of fuel gas from crude oil purification" was invented by Sandeep Karode (Boothwyn, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a crude oil purification process including phase separators, a vapor recovery unit (VRU), and dew pointing/dehydration and CO2 removal membranes, instead of compressing the low boiling point (i.e., C1-5) hydrocarbon vapor stream from the VRU along with the main portion of gas from the separation train and feeding it to the membranes, it is compressed and dehydrated along with the H2O/C3+ hydro...