Patent ID: 8899045

Claim:
Method of continuously conditioning gas, preferably natural gas, before it is fed into a pipe, more particularly a network of pipes for the supply of consumers, in which pressurized natural gas is removed from a reservoir to form removed pressurized natural gas, wherein the removed pressurized natural gas is expanded and heated to a predetermined temperature before or after its expansion, wherein a branched-off partial flow of the removed pressurized natural gas is mixed with oxygen to produce cold burnable gas, wherein the cold burnable gas becomes heated burnable gas, wherein the heated burnable gas is catalytically burned to produce heat energy, and wherein the heat energy is used to heat the removed pressurized natural gas, wherein a partial exhaust gas flow is branched off from a hot exhaust gas flow released during the catalytic burning and fed together with the cold burnable gas into a first container, wherein the cold burnable gas is mixed with the partial exhaust gas flow in the first container so that the cold burnable gas is heated and so that a mixture is formed comprising heated burnable gas, wherein the heated burnable gas is fed from the first container into a second container in which the goes catalytic burning takes place to produce the heat energy, and wherein the heat energy is used to heat the removed pressurized natural gas to the predetermined temperature.