Patent ID: 11866668
Assignee: nan
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing variable, multi-phase fluid conversion to output fuel and energy, the method comprising:
receiving, by a gas conditioning subsystem, a flow of input gas from a gas source input gas stream of varying composition comprising methane and non-methane hydrocarbons;
converting, by the gas conditioning subsystem, the input gas into conditioned gas;
adjusting, with a compressor subsystem, pressure of the conditioned gas;
managing, by a conversion system control subsystem, multiple automatically controlled closed loops to direct fluids and/or gas flow, further comprising adjusting, by a first controller, system parameters to vary conditioned gas flow based on measurements by at least one measurement component in a first closed loop;
receiving and directing, by a first blending subsystem, the conditioned gas into one or more pre-separation application units and/or a separation subsystem;
adjusting, by a second controller in communication with at least one feedback component positioned at or before a gas inlet for the one or more pre-separation gas application units to form a second closed loop of the control subsystem, system parameters to vary conditioned gas flow based on measurements by the at least one feedback component;
receiving, by a separation subsystem comprising a Joule-Thomson (JT) apparatus in fluid communication with the first blending subsystem, a conditioned gas stream;
separating at least a portion of the conditioned gas using a thermal management subsystem and Joule-Thompson effect to condense heavier hydrocarbons out of the conditioned gas stream, to produce (a) a condensed liquid comprising primarily non-methane hydrocarbons, and (b) a dry gas comprising primarily methane and lessor amounts of non-methane hydrocarbons;
directing, by a dry produced gas subsystem in fluid communication with the separation subsystem, dry gas to one or more dry gas application units using a third controller in communication with a monitoring component positioned at or before a fuel gas inlet for the one or more dry gas application units to form a third closed loop of the control subsystem, comprising adjusting, by the third controller, system parameters to vary dry gas flow in real-time, on-demand, based on measurements by the at least one monitoring component;
controlling, by a second blending subsystem in fluid communication with the dry gas subsystem, production of blended gas to match fuel flow demand of one or more wet gas application units by adjusting a flow rate of a dry gas stream through one or more mixing valve subsystems and/or waste gates to control production rate of the blended gas comprising converted gas from the condensed liquid mixed with the dry gas stream within threshold limits of a predetermined enrichment ratio;
directing, by a natural gas liquid (NGL) and wet gas subsystem in fluid communication with the separation subsystem and the second blending subsystem, blended gas to the one or more wet gas application units using a fourth controller in communication with a sensing component, comprising adjusting, by the fourth controller, system parameters to vary blended gas flow in real-time, on-demand, based on measurements by the at least one sensing component;
receiving, by an application unit product subsystem, unit products; and
delivering, by the application unit product subsystem, unit products to output destinations according to system parameters, comprising, automatically controlling flow and directing fluids/gases, by the control subsystem, in real time using valves and components to meet one or more of: flow demand, predetermined thresholds, predetermined specifications, and predetermined system parameters.