Device for continuously conditioning fed-out natural gas

US8500831B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• EWE Gasspeicher GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Andreas Lenk · Rabenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F17D1/075
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for continuously conditioning fed-out natural gas prior to feeding the same to supply lines leading to consumers has a mixing station for producing a burnable gas from natural gas and oxygen, a reactor container for a catalytic combustion of an introduced mixture of burnable gas and natural gas, at least one drying station that is connected downstream of an outlet of the reactor container, at least one separator, particularly for water, and at least one expansion fitting for reducing the pressure. The reactor container and separator chamber of the separator are disposed in an enclosed housing. The mixing chamber, into which a first feed line for fed-out cold natural gas opens, is disposed in the housing between the reactor container and the separator chamber.