US Patent Issued to LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Multiple reflux stream hydrocarbon recovery process" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,924, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC (Bloomfield, N.J.).

"Multiple reflux stream hydrocarbon recovery process" was invented by Galip Hakan Guvelioglu (The Woodlands, Texas) and Fereidoun Yamin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems herein separate an inlet gas stream containing methane, C2 components, C3 components and optionally heavier hydrocarbons into a volatile gas fraction containing methane and a less volatile hydrocarbon fraction containing C2+ components. The system may include piping, valving, and controls configured to flexibly allow the system to operate in a high ethane recovery mode, a hi...