Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for reclaiming liquefied petroleum gas
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Application No.: US15769638Application Date: 2017-04-07
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Publication No.: US10760007B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Michael Joseph Goessl , Isaac Ray Ainsworth , Jeremiah Hurst , Jay Alan Haddock , James Norman Rettler , Jody Alan McKinley
- Applicant: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US OH Columbus
- Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Columbus
- Agency: Tucker Ellis LLP
- Agent Carlos Garritano
- International Application: PCT/US2017/026578 WO 20170407
- International Announcement: WO2017/177123 WO 20171012
- Main IPC: B65B31/00
- IPC: B65B31/00 ; C10G31/06 ; F17C7/04 ; F17C13/00 ; C10G99/00 ; C10G71/00 ; C10G53/00 ; F17C9/02 ; C10L3/12 ; F17C13/02 ; F25J1/00 ; F25J1/02

Abstract:
An LPG reclaim system for withdrawing and reclaiming liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from an unspent LPG cylinder. The reclaim system has a reclaim station for reclaiming unspent LPG from LPG bottle containers, a compressor for applying a vacuum on the reclaim station and pressurizing LPG vapor from the reclaimed LPG fluid, and a receiving tanlc for receiving a stream of pressurized liquid LPG. The reclaim system has a pair of shell-and-tube heat exchangers include cold-side tubes and a hot side shell. The reclaimed LPG fluid is passed through the cold-side tubes, while the pressurizing LPG vapor is passed through the hot-side shell of the heat exchanger. The heat applied to the cold-side reclaimed LPG fluid promotes evaporation of the LPG fluid to LPG vapor for pressurizing, and the cooling applied to the hot-side pressurized LPG vapor promotes condensation of the LPG vapor to LPG liquid for the refill containers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180312763A1 SYSTEM FOR RECLAIMING LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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