Patent ID: 8500831
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: F17D

Abstract:
1. A device for continuously conditioning fed-out natural gas prior to feeding it to supply lines leading to consumers, with a mixing station for producing a burnable gas from natural gas and oxygen, with a reactor container for catalytic combustion of a fed-in mixture of burnable gas and natural gas, with at least one drying station connected downstream of the outlet of the reactor container, the at least one drying station having at least one separator for water, the at least one separator having at least one separator chamber, and with at least one expansion fitting for reducing pressure, wherein the reactor container and the at least one separator chamber are arranged in an enclosed housing, wherein a mixing chamber arranged in the housing between the reactor container and the at least one separator chamber, wherein a first in-feed for fed-out natural gas opens into the mixing chamber, wherein a passage connects the reactor container with the mixing chamber, the passage permitting direct entry of the heated natural gas flowing out of the reactor container into the mixing chamber, wherein the mixing chamber has a mixing chamber outlet which leads into the at least one separator chamber, wherein the reactor container, the at least one separator chamber and the mixing chamber have condensate drains leading into external condensate traps, wherein a second in-feed for fed-out natural gas opens into an area of the housing which corresponds to the arrangement of the reactor container in the housing, and wherein expansion fittings are connected upstream of the first and second in-feeds for natural gas into the housing.