Cold gas dryer for compressed natural gas
CA 2178880 C · Owner: Price Compressor Company, Inc. · Inventors: Price, Billy F.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A process and apparatus for dehydrating natural gas while filling a compressed natural gas storage vessel are provided. The natural gas is dehydrated through a process of compression followed by expansion for cooling, and freezing or condensation of water from the cooled gas onto the surface of a moisture collecting material. The invention provides dehydrated compressed natural gas which can be used to supply natural gas vehicle filling stations.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 12, 1996 and granted February 19, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 12, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 12, 2018.
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