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US 2015/0148434 A1Published application
System and method for sealing a syngas cooler
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAnindra Mazumdar, Jay Christopher Schleicher, Atul Kumar Vij, Uma Chinnadurai, Paromita Bhattacharya, Rajeshwar Sripada
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Abstract
A system includes a syngas cooler and a compatible seal gas system. The syngas cooler may be configured to cool a syngas. The compatible seal gas system may be configured to supply a compatible seal gas to a seal of the syngas cooler. The seal may be configured to block the syngas from a passage between an outer wall of the syngas cooler and a tube cage of the syngas cooler.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a syngas cooler configured to cool a syngas, wherein the syngas cooler comprises a seal configured to block the syngas from a passage between an outer wall of the syngas cooler and a tube cage of the syngas cooler;
- and
- a compatible seal gas system configured to supply a compatible seal gas to the seal of the syngas cooler.
A method, comprising:
- blocking a syngas from entering a passage between an outer wall of a syngas cooler and a tube cage of the syngas cooler using a seal disposed in the syngas cooler;
- and
- supplying a compatible seal gas to the seal using a compatible seal gas system.
A system, comprising:
- a controller, comprising:
- one or more tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media collectively storing one or more sets of instructions;
- and
- one or more processing devices configured to execute the one or more sets of instructions to:
- control a syngas cooler to cool a syngas, and to block the syngas from entering a passage between an outer wall of the syngas cooler and a tube cage of the syngas cooler using a seal disposed in the syngas cooler;
- and
- control a compatible seal gas system to supply a compatible seal gas to the seal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.