US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 12 for "Hydrate mitigation in a pipeline with vortex tubes" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,938, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrate mitigation in a pipeline with vortex tubes" was invented by Ahmad Noor Al-deen Hassan Rizq (Doha, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to prevent the formation of hydrates in a pipeline includes a heater assembly. The heater assembly has a vortex tube mounted on an outer surface of a first section of the pipeline and a compressed gas source. The vortex tube is configured to separate gas from an inlet into a hot gas pathway and a cold gas pathway. The vortex tube includes an inlet, a cold gas outlet, and a hot gas outlet. Th...