Process, method, and system for removing heavy metals from fluids

A method for concurrently transporting and removing trace amount levels of heavy metals such as mercury from produced fluids such as natural gas, with the injection of a complexing agent and a hydrate inhibitor into the pipeline for use in transporting the produced fluid. Volatile mercury in the nat...

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Hauptverfasser:	COOPER RUSSELL EVAN, O'REAR DENNIS JOHN, BELUE JORDAN TAYLOR, SHEU FENG-RAN
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL CHEMISTRY CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS FIRELIGHTERS FUELS FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS LUBRICANTS METALLURGY MINERAL WAXES NATURAL GAS ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PEAT PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS REFORMING OF NAPHTHA SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE
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Zusammenfassung:	A method for concurrently transporting and removing trace amount levels of heavy metals such as mercury from produced fluids such as natural gas, with the injection of a complexing agent and a hydrate inhibitor into the pipeline for use in transporting the produced fluid. Volatile mercury in the natural gas is removed while the produced fluid is being transported in the pipeline, with the hydrate inhibitor suppressing or decreasing the formation of the hydrate that would cause plugging in the pipeline. The complexing agent reacts with the volatile mercury in the natural gas, forming precipitate or soluble mercury complexes in the aqueous phase. The aqueous phase containing the hydrate inhibitor, unreacted complexing agent, and mercury complexes is subsequently recovered and can be re-used in the pipeline.