Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for a compressor
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Application No.: US15704656Application Date: 2017-09-14
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Publication No.: US10724462B2Publication Date: 2020-07-28
- Inventor: Neil William Burkell , Milan Karunaratne , David Edward Petersen , Richard C. Peoples , Jason M. Strode , Bret Dwayne Worden
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: The Small Patent Law Group LLC
- Agent Mary D. Lawlor
- Main IPC: F04B49/02
- IPC: F04B49/02 ; F02D41/22 ; F02D41/26 ; F01M13/00 ; F01M13/02 ; F02D41/00 ; F04B51/00 ; F04B41/02 ; F04B27/053 ; F04B41/06 ; F04B49/06 ; F04B25/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods (e.g., a method for controlling and/or operating a compressor) are provided that includes the steps of monitoring a crankcase pressure of a first compressor; analyzing the monitored crankcase pressure that includes calculating an average of the crankcase pressure over a time period and comparing the average of the crankcase pressure over the time period to a nominal crankcase average pressure; identifying a condition of the first compressor based on the analysis of the monitored crankcase pressure; and adjusting operation of a second compressor to compensate for the first compressor in response to identifying the condition of the first compressor based on the analysis of the monitored crankcase pressure. (The method may be carried out automatically or otherwise by a controller).
Public/Granted literature
- US20180003122A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMPRESSOR Public/Granted day:2018-01-04
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