ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,884, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to T.EN Process Technology Inc. (Houston).
"Crude oil stabilization" was invented by Rajeev Nanda (Katy, Texas), Praveen Kumar (Sugar Land, Texas) and Cong Dinh (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for stabilizing a hydrocarbon feedstock includes a High Pressure Separation (HPS) unit in fluid communication with a feedstock inlet. The HPS unit includes an oil outlet. A Heated Low Pressure (LP) Separator unit is downstream from the oil outlet of the HPS unit. The Heated LP Separator unit includes an oil outlet."
The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/3...