Patents Assigned to NEDERLANDS ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGPAST-NATUURWETENS ONDERZOEK TNO
  • CONTROLLED FORMATION OF HYDRATES
    Publication number: 20100180952
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing or avoiding deposition of a hydrocarbon hydrate on a surface that is in contact with a hydrocarbon flow which contains water, the method comprising controlling the nucleation of dry hydrocarbon hydrate crystals in the flow. The invention further relates to a method for transporting a hydrocarbon flow which contains a hydrocarbon hydrate and to a method for preparing a dry hydrocarbon hydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: NEDERLANDS ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGPAST-NATUURWETENS ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Frédérique José Paul Christian Marie Ghislain Verhelst, Aris Twerda, Johannes Petrus Maria Smeulers, Marinus Carolus Adrianus Maria Peters, Stefan Philip Christiaan Belfroid, Wouter Schiferli