Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cryogenic pump for liquefied natural gas
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Application No.: US14820326Application Date: 2015-08-06
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Publication No.: US10024311B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Cory A. Brown , Adrienne M. Brasche , Daniel R. Baldwin , Sudhindra K. Ayanji , Joshua W. Steffen
- Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, LTD.
- Main IPC: F04B15/08
- IPC: F04B15/08 ; F04B23/02 ; F04B37/08

Abstract:
A cryogenic pump for pumping liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a cryogenic tank storing LNG includes a drive assembly and a pump assembly disposed along a pump axis. The drive assembly includes a spool housing having a plurality of spool valves arranged around the pump axis, a tappet housing having a plurality of tappet bores with slidable tappets arranged around the pump axis, and spring housing including a plurality of movably disposed pushrods urged upward by a plurality of associated pushrod springs. Hydraulic fluid received by a hydraulic fluid inlet in the drive assembly is directed by the spool valves to the tappet bores to move the tappets downward against the pushrods. To collect the hydraulic fluid, the lowermost spring housing also includes a collection cavity formed therein that can return the hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic fluid outlet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170037836A1 Cryogenic Pump for Liquefied Natural Gas Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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