Patent ID: 8876954

Claim:
A method for dehydrating natural gas, comprising: a) circulating a desiccant between a contactor, a flash tank and a still with a reboiler; b) introducing wet gas into the contactor with dry or lean desiccant, the dry or lean desiccant absorbing water vapor from the wet gas resulting in a rich or wet desiccant and dry gas; c) extracting flash gas from rich or wet desiccant in the flash tank; d) removing the water vapor from the rich or wet desiccant in the still by heating the rich or wet desiccant to vaporize the water vapor resulting in the dry or lean desiccant; e) recirculating the dry or lean desiccant from the still to the contactor; and f) circulating dry or lean desiccant from the still to the flash tank.