Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Feedback control optimization of counter-flow simultaneous heat and mass exchange
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Application No.: US16268643Application Date: 2019-02-06
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Publication No.: US10688409B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Prakash Narayan Govindan , Maximus G. St. John , Karim M. Chehayeb , Steven Lam
- Applicant: Gradiant Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Woburn
- Assignee: Gradiant Corporation
- Current Assignee: Gradiant Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Woburn
- Agency: Modern Times Legal
- Agent Robert J. Sayre
- Main IPC: B01F3/04
- IPC: B01F3/04 ; C02F1/26 ; B01D3/42 ; F28F27/00 ; F28B1/02 ; F28C1/02 ; C02F1/00 ; B01D3/16 ; C02F1/10 ; F28B5/00 ; F28D21/00 ; B01D3/34 ; C02F1/04 ; C02F103/08 ; C02F103/10

Abstract:
A counter-flow simultaneous heat and mass exchange device is operated by directing flows of two fluids into a heat and mass exchange device at initial mass flow rates where ideal changes in total enthalpy rates of the two fluids are unequal. At least one of the following state variables in the fluids is measured: temperature, pressure and concentration, which together define the thermodynamic state of the two fluid streams at the points of entry to and exit from the device. The flow rates of the fluids at the points of entry and/or exit to/from the device are measured; and the mass flow rate of at least one of the two fluids is changed such that the ideal change in total enthalpy rates of the two fluids through the device are brought closer to being equal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190209947A1 Feedback Control Optimization of Counter-Flow Simultaneous Heat and Mass Exchange Public/Granted day:2019-07-11
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