R&D and PATENTS
SIME has often been involved in activities aimed to provide Customized Solutions or new Technological Approaches also applying innovative and own patented solutions. In several cases the engagement started from the Conceptual Design and concluded in supply of Machinery and Packages:
- Special Solutions: (Automatic Heavy Duty Machines / Trolleys / Lifting Means, Special Test Benches, Subsea Equipment, Prototypes for severe environment) – See Sime Product
- Engineering Activities or EPC Approach for Packaged / Modularized Solutions: (Dry Gas Seal – API 692 compliant, Hydraulic Starting System (HSS), Small H2 Stream Reformer – BOP modularization) – See Sime Product
Sime Patents Technological Portfolio
1
A method and an apparatus for NGL/GPL recovery from a hydrocarbon gas in particular from a natural gas
Patent
- EU
COMPANY
- SIME
2
Method and apparatus for recovering from a pressurized gas a liquid fraction, in particular hydrocarbon having two or more carbon atoms
Patent
- EU
- USA
- EURASIA
Patent pending
- UAE
COMPANY
- SIME
3
A method and an apparatus for obtaining energy by expanding a gas at a wellhead
Patent
- EU
- USA
- EURASIA
Patent pending
- UAE
COMPANY
- SIME
4
Mass transfer column
Patent
- EU
- OAPI
Patent pending
- UAE
COMPANY
- SIME
5
Method and apparatus for sweetening and/or dehydrating a hydrocarbon gas, in particular a natural gas
Patent
- USA
COMPANY
- SIME
6
Process and equipment for separating 1,2,4 trimethylbenzene (PSEUDOCUMENE) for a mixture containing aromatic hydrocarbons
Patent
- EU
- SIN
- USA
COMPANY
- SIME
7
Underwater device and method for blocking outflow of a fluid like oil or gas from an underwater well
Patent
- EU
- USA
- SIN
- EURASIA
COMPANY
- SIME
8
Separation of hydrocarbon families or of individual components by consecutive extractive distillations performed in a single column
Patent
- EU
- USA
Patent
- EU
- USA
COMPANY
- SIME
