ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,177, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Houston).
"Reducing energy consumption in MEG reclamation" was invented by David John Knight (Gatwick, Great Britain), Steven Langley (Gatwick, Great Britain) and Bryan Bussell (Sutton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described herein, comprising vaporizing a glycol material by thermal contact with a heating medium to form a vaporized glycol stream, increasing a pressure of the vaporized glycol stream to form a pressurized glycol stream, and increasing a temperature of the heating medium by thermally contacting the heating medium with the pres...