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CA 1185542
VERTICAL DRIP SEPARATOR APPARATUS AND METHOD A B S T R A C T A system for preventing freezing of liquids during separation of liquids from natural gas at a natural gas well head comprising an elongated tank mounted in a vertical attitude with a lowermost portion buried in the ground below the frost line and an uppermost portion extending above the ground. A divider plate separates the tank into an upper compartment and a lower compart- ment. Each compartment has a liquid reservoir at the bottom thereof. An underground natural gas supply line is connected to a mid-portion of the lower compartment whereby material gas including liquids such as water and hydrocarbons flows into the lower compartment. The bottom reservoir portion of the lower compartment is connected to the bottom reservoir portion of the upper compartment by a vertical tube therewithin whereby liquids which accumu- late in the lower compartment reservoir are lifted through the tube to the upper compartment reservoir by pressure of the natural gas whenever the lower inlet end of the tube is covered by liquids in the lower compartment reservoir. A heater device operated by the natural gas supplies heat to a housing surrounding the upper com- partment reservoir to prevent freezing of liquids therein which are periodically automatically removed therefrom whenever a predetermined maximum volume of liquids are accumulated therein.
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Hewitt Neville S.
Olman Heath Company
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