Patent ID: 8790452

Claim:
A system adapted to separate a natural gas feed stream into a sweetened gas stream, at least one liquid waste stream and at least one gaseous waste stream, and to discharge, recover or destroy the at least one liquid waste stream and the at least one gaseous waste stream, the system comprising: a compression subsystem adapted to treat the natural gas feed stream to remove a first portion of the at least one liquid waste stream and to increase the natural gas feed stream to a process pressure greater than an initial entering pressure to form a pressurized natural gas stream; a gas pretreatment subsystem adapted to treat the pressurized natural gas stream to remove a second portion of the at least one liquid waste stream and to cool and filter the pressurized natural gas stream to form a filtered natural gas stream; an acid gas separation subsystem adapted to separate the filtered natural gas stream into the sweetened gas stream and a first portion of the at least one gaseous waste stream; a destruction subsystem adapted to incinerate the first portion of the at least one gaseous waste stream to form a flue gas; and, a feed water pretreatment subsystem comprising a water stream, wherein the water stream cools the pressurized natural gas stream in the gas pretreatment subsystem.