US Patent Issued to FLUOR TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 18 for "Configurations and methods for NGL recovery for high nitrogen content feed gases" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,335, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to FLUOR TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Sugarland, Texas).

"Configurations and methods for NGL recovery for high nitrogen content feed gases" was invented by John Mak (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low cost and efficient design is used to convert a propane recovery process based on low nitrogen content feed gas to an ethane recovery process based on a high nitrogen feed gas while achieving over 95 mole % ethane recovery while maintaining a 99% propane recovery, and achieved without additional equipment."

The patent was filed on Jan. 29, 2019, under Application No. 16/260,288.

*For furt...