Gas Separation System and Method for Managing the Same
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorWoo Ram Kang
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Abstract
An apparatus of a gas system may comprise a processor and a memory storing at least one instruction that, when executed by the processor communicating with the memory, is configured to cause the apparatus to separate a target gas from a gas mixture using a plurality of gas separation membranes of the gas system, obtain, via a first sensor connected with a first pipe, first sensing data corresponding to a reference exhaust gas discharged from a reference gas separation membrane, obtain, via a second sensor connected with a second pipe, second sensing data corresponding to a total exhaust gas discharged from the plurality of gas separation membranes, output a signal indicating whether at least one membrane is defective, and control a flow path based on the signal.
Claims20
An apparatus of a gas system, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing at least one instruction that, when executed by the processor communicating with the memory, is configured to cause the apparatus to:
- separate a target gas from a gas mixture using a plurality of gas separation membranes of the gas system;
- obtain, via a first sensor of the gas system connected with a first pipe of the gas system, first sensing data corresponding to a reference exhaust gas discharged from a reference gas separation membrane selected from the plurality of gas separation membranes;
- obtain, via a second sensor of the gas system connected with a second pipe of the gas system, second sensing data corresponding to a total exhaust gas discharged from the plurality of gas separation membranes;
- and
- output, based on a first rate of change associated with the first sensing data and a second rate of change associated with the second sensing data, a signal indicating whether at least one of the plurality of gas separation membranes is defective.
A method performed by an apparatus of a gas system, the method comprising:
- determining a first rate of change associated with first sensing data corresponding to a reference exhaust gas discharged from a reference gas separation membrane, wherein the reference gas separation membrane is selected from a plurality of gas separation membranes;
- determining a second rate of change associated with second sensing data corresponding to a total exhaust gas discharged from the plurality of gas separation membranes;
- and
- outputting, based on the first rate of change and the second rate of change, a signal indicating whether at least one of the plurality of gas separation membranes is defective.
An apparatus of a gas system, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing at least one instruction that, when executed by the processor communicating with the memory, is configured to cause the apparatus to:
- obtain first sensing data indicating characteristics of a reference exhaust gas discharged from a reference membrane selected from a plurality of membranes of the gas system;
- obtain second sensing data indicating characteristics of a total exhaust gas discharged from the plurality of membranes;
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- output, based on the first sensing data and the second sensing data, a signal indicating whether a deviation exists between the reference exhaust gas and the total exhaust gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.