Patent ID: 11945006
Assignee: EQUINOR ENERGY AS
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  E  F | IPC B  E  F

Claim 0:
1. A natural gas processing system, comprising:
a first separator configured to receive a multi-phase hydrocarbon fluid and to produce a gas phase output and a liquid phase output;
a gas compressor including a gas inlet and a gas outlet, wherein the gas compressor is arranged to receive the gas phase output from the first separator at the gas inlet;
a liquid cleaning agent supply line configured to supply a liquid cleaning agent to the gas inlet of the gas compressor; and
a second separator arranged to receive a fluid output from the gas compressor, wherein the second separator is configured to recover the fluid output from the gas compressor so as to prevent removed deposited solid material contained in the fluid output from the gas compressor from reaching one or more gas processing stages of the natural gas processing system downstream of the gas compressor, the second separator being arranged to output a gas phase output and a liquid phase output, such that the liquid phase output from the second separator contains deposited solid material removed from the gas compressor,
wherein the gas processing system is configured to, during a cleaning operation, supply the liquid phase output from the second separator to the gas inlet of the gas compressor via the liquid cleaning agent supply line.