Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cryogenic pumps
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Application No.: US14142800Application Date: 2013-12-28
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Publication No.: US09599101B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Alexis Lefevre , Pierre Papirer
- Applicant: Westport Power Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA Vancouver
- Assignee: WESTPORT POWER INC.
- Current Assignee: WESTPORT POWER INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Vancouver
- Agent Carie C. Mager; C. Larry Kyle
- Priority: EP11352007 20110629
- Main IPC: F17C9/02
- IPC: F17C9/02 ; F04B15/08 ; F04B37/06

Abstract:
A cryogenic pump has an associated heater for vaporizing cryogenic fluid. The heater has a chamber (bounded by an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve) disposed around at least a portion of the pump housing. The heater has a helical heating coil with a plurality of turns disposed within the chamber and a helical baffle having a plurality of turns interspaced with the turns of the heating coil for guiding heat exchange fluid over the turns of the heat exchange coil. The heater has an inlet for cryogenic fluid to communicate with the heat exchange coil and an outlet for the resulting vaporized fluid. Heat exchange fluid flows through an inlet of the heater chamber to an outlet of the heater chamber and then through a space defined between the inner sleeve and a portion of the pump housing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140109599A1 Cryogenic Pumps Public/Granted day:2014-04-24
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