Patents Represented by Law Firm Fleit, Jacobsen, Cohn, Price, Holman & Stern
  • Gas-liquid separation and flow measurement apparatus
    Patent number: 4860591
    Abstract: A gas-liquid mixture consisting in particular of a petroleum product supplied to a feed pipe in a dynamic flow regime is subjected to a vortical gravity-separation process so as to form two separate streams of gas and liquid for separate measurements of their flow rates, the streams being then combined for final dynamic discharge through a common pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine (Production)
    Inventor: Emmanuel Garland