US 12,203,027 B2
Frozen material formation prevention systems
Mohsen S. Yeganeh, Newtown, PA (US); Robert J. Colby, Annandale, NJ (US); Mark A. King, Maplewood, NJ (US); Abhimanyu O. Patil, Westfield, NJ (US); and Satish Bodige, Wayne, NJ (US)
Assigned to Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/596,698
Filed by ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annadale, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/047948
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 16, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/045945, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/896,748, filed on Sep. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0340798 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. C09K 3/18 (2006.01); B05D 5/08 (2006.01); B05D 7/22 (2006.01)
CPC C09K 3/18 (2013.01) [B05D 5/08 (2013.01); B05D 7/225 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A frozen material prevention system for preventing a freezable material in a fluid flow from freezing and accumulating frozen material in a flow path, comprising:
a surface configured to interact with a freezable-material-miscible (FMM) liquid to retain the FMM liquid to the surface; and
a regeneration system connected to the surface, wherein regeneration system is configured to at least partially remove the freezable material from the FMM liquid to at least partially regenerate the FMM liquid on the surface.