Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Machine foam cleaning system with integrated sensing
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Application No.: US15957572Application Date: 2018-04-19
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Publication No.: US11371385B2Publication Date: 2022-06-28
- Inventor: Nicole Jessica Tibbetts , Bernard Patrick Bewlay , Michael Eriksen , Keith Anthony Lauria , Richard Schliem , Erica Sampson , Eric Telfeyan
- 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: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: F01D25/00
- IPC: F01D25/00 ; B08B9/00 ; B08B3/00

Abstract:
A machine is cleaned by directing a foam detergent into the machine to remove contaminants from inside the machine. An effluent portion of the foam detergent exits from the machine with some of the contaminants. One or more of a turbidity, a salinity, an amount of total dissolved solids, or a concentration the contaminants in the effluent is measured. A cleaning time period during which the foam detergent is to be directed into the machine is determined based on the turbidity, the salinity, the amount of total dissolved solids, and/or the contaminant concentration that is measured from the effluent. The foam detergent continues to be directed into the machine during the cleaning time period, and the flow of the foam detergent into the machine is terminated on expiration of the time period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190323378A1 MACHINE FOAM CLEANING SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED SENSING Public/Granted day:2019-10-24
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