ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,225, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to JGC Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Natural gas pretreatment system and method for pretreating natural gas" was invented by Yuzuru Kakutani (Kanagawa, Japan), Yugo Furubayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirokatsu Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural gas pretreatment system includes: a carbon dioxide removal unit configured to remove carbon dioxide from the natural gas by bringing an absorption liquid and the natural gas into contact with each other; and a water removal unit configured to remove water by causing the natural gas to flow through a packed bed containing a water ads...