US Patent Issued to HONEYWELL LNG on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and process for removal of heavy hydrocarbons from a feed gas" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,465, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HONEYWELL LNG LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Apparatus and process for removal of heavy hydrocarbons from a feed gas" was invented by Mark Julian Roberts (Whitehall, Pa.), Justin David Bukowski (Hamburg, Pa.) and Christopher Michael Ott (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and process for heavy hydrocarbon (e.g., oils that include ten or more carbons, C10+ hydrocarbons, etc.) removal from a natural gas feed (e.g., a feed comprised of methane and impurities such as water and heavy hydrocarbons) can include utilization of one or more coalescing filters to provide adsorption of atomi...