	US 12,146,112 B2
	Method for obtaining methane clath rates and recovering methane from methane clath rates
Dobiesław Nazimek, Turka (PL); Krzysztof Pietrzak, Lublin (PL); Michał Pietrzak, Lublin (PL); and Andrzej Pryzowicz, Lublin (PL)
Assigned to BIOPOLINEX Sp. z o.o., Lublin (PL)
Appl. No. 17/615,280
Filed by BIOPOLINEX Sp. z o.o., Lublin (PL)
PCT Filed Jun. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/PL2020/000050 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/242327, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 430107 (PL), filed on May 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0195323 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. C10L 3/10 (2006.01); B01D 53/14 (2006.01)

CPC C10L 3/101 (2013.01) [B01D 53/1418 (2013.01); C10L 2200/0407 (2013.01); C10L 2290/541 (2013.01)]

11 Claims

1. A method of obtaining methane clathrates characterized in that pure methane or methane in a mixture of inert gases, which are in amounts not exceeding 1%, is contacted with a mixture of alkanes from C7 to C16 at a temperature of 5 to 20° C. at absolute pressure above 1 bar.