US Patent Issued to VME Canada on Oct. 7 for "Process for recovery of hydrate inhibitors" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,022, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VME Canada LTD. (Calgary, Canada).

"Process for recovery of hydrate inhibitors" was invented by Terrance John Larry Trofimuk (Calgary, Canada) and Daniel John Domanko (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for recovering glycol from a process stream comprising glycol, water, dissolved salts, and hydrocarbons. The process comprises subjecting the process stream to a salt-enrichment process to obtain a salt-enriched stream having a salt concentration higher than salt concentration of the process stream, and a salt-reduced stream; subjecting the salt...