Patent ID: 6767191
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: C10G

Abstract:
A method of compressing a gaseous hydrocarbon-containing medium comprising:feeding a gaseous hydrocarbon-containing medium to a liquid-gas jet device; feeding a liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium by a pump under pressure to a nozzle of the liquid-gas jet device; forming in the liquid-gas jet device while mixing the gaseous hydrocarbon-containing medium and the liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium a gas-liquid mixture having a pressure exceeding the pressure of the gaseous hydrocarbon-containing medium; absorbing a portion of the gaseous hydrocarbon-containing medium in the liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium; feeding the gas-liquid mixture from the liquid-gas jet device to a separator; separating the gas-liquid mixture into compressed gas and a liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium; removing the compressed gas from the separator to a consumer and The liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium to a pump input of a circulation loop of the liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium including the pump, the liquid-gas jet device, the separator and the pump; removing from the circulation loop the liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium into a cracking and rectifying unit in which the liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium is subjected to cracking and subsequent rectification in a rectifying column of this unit; feeding into the circulation loop of the liquid hydrocarbon-containing medium a distillate of a rectifying column of an atmosphere-vacuum oil refining unit as a fresh liquid working medium.