US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on April 22 for "Heat recovery steam generation integration with high pressure feed gas processes for the production of liquefied natural gas" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,845, issued on April 22, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Heat recovery steam generation integration with high pressure feed gas processes for the production of liquefied natural gas" was invented by Jorge Vincentelli (Spring, Texas), Yijun Liu (Spring, Texas), Ananda K Nagavarapu (Houston) and Xiaoli Y. Wright (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing LNG. According to the method, a natural gas stream is compressed using first and second compressors. A cooler cools the natural gas stream so that the second compressor produces a cooled, compressed natural gas str...