Method and apparatus maintaining multi-component sample gas constituents in vapor phase during sample extraction and cooling

Patent · Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2009

OSTI ID:1013820

Farthing, William Earl ^[1]; Felix, Larry Gordon ^[2]; Snyder, Todd Robert ^[3]

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1. Pinson, AL
2. Pelham, AL
3. Birmingham, AL

An apparatus and method for diluting and cooling that is extracted from high temperature and/or high pressure industrial processes. Through a feedback process, a specialized, CFD-modeled dilution cooler is employed along with real-time estimations of the point at which condensation will occur within the dilution cooler to define a level of dilution and diluted gas temperature that results in a gas that can be conveyed to standard gas analyzers that contains no condensed hydrocarbon compounds or condensed moisture.

• Research Organization: Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, IL)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FC36-03GO13175
• Assignee: Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, IL)
• Patent Number(s): 7,631,566
• Application Number: US Patent Application 11/999,648
• OSTI ID: 1013820
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English