Patent ID: RE39944

Claim:
A method wherein a supply of natural gas is fed into an absorber wherein it is subjected to dry glycol to remove undesirable materials therefrom so that the dry glycol is changed into wet glycol that is removed from the absorber comprising: feeding wet glycol from said absorber into a separator apparatus; collecting a supply of wet glycol to a predetermined level in said separator apparatus; feeding excess wet glycol greater than said predetermined level from said separator apparatus to a reboiler for changing said excess wet glycol into dry glycol and effluents; feeding said effluents to a condenser apparatus; circulating wet glycol from said supply of wet glycol through said condenser apparatus to change said effluents to at least liquid water, liquid hydrocarbons and uncondensed vapors and returning said circulating wet glycol to said separator apparatus; feeding said at least liquid water, liquid hydrocarbons and uncondensed vapors to a liquid water removal separator apparatus; separating said liquid water from said at least liquid water, liquid hydrocarbons and uncondensed vapors; and feeding said at least liquid hydrocarbons and said uncondensed vapors to said separator apparatus.