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US 9,790,972 B2Granted
Heated fluid regulators
AssigneeEmerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJames Lyman Griffin, Jr., Harold Joe McKinney
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Abstract
Example apparatus for regulator heat transfer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a regulator including a body, a stem disposed therein, a first inlet and a first outlet. The regulator regulates a pressure of a fluid flowing from the first inlet to the first outlet. The example apparatus comprises a vortex generator disposed within the body to convey heat to a valve of the regulator. The stem controls the regulator and the vortex generator.
Claims21
An apparatus, comprising:
- a regulator including a body, a stem disposed therein, a first inlet and a first outlet, the regulator to regulate a pressure of a first fluid flowing from the first inlet to the first outlet;
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- a vortex generator disposed within the body and including a second inlet and a first valve, the vortex generator to convey heat to a second valve of the regulator via a second fluid flowing from the second inlet through the first valve, the stem to control the first valve and the second valve to regulate an amount of the heat conveyed to the second valve from the vortex generator via the first valve, the vortex generator to generate the heat prior to the second fluid flowing through the first valve, the second valve disposed in a first chamber between the first inlet and the first outlet and the first valve disposed in a second chamber between the second inlet and the first chamber.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a body having a first inlet and an outlet and a stem disposed therein, a first fluid to flow from the first inlet to the outlet;
- a vortex generator disposed within the body and having a second inlet, the vortex generator to heat a second fluid flowing from the second inlet to the outlet;
- a first valve to regulate pressure of the first fluid, the first valve disposed in a first chamber between the first inlet and the outlet;
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- a second valve disposed in the vortex generator, the second valve disposed in a second chamber between the second inlet and the first chamber, the stem to control the first valve and the second valve to regulate an amount of the second fluid flowing to the first valve from the vortex generator via the second valve to convey heat to the first valve, the vortex generator to heat the second fluid prior to the second fluid flowing through the second valve.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- means for regulating pressure of a first fluid;
- means for heating the means for regulating pressure, the means for heating to heat a second fluid, the means for regulating pressure and the means for heating comprising one body, the body including a first inlet for receiving the first fluid and a second inlet for receiving the second fluid;
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- means for controlling the means for regulating pressure and the means for heating, the means for controlling to control an amount of heat conveyed from the means for heating to the means for regulating pressure via the second fluid, the means for heating to generate the heat before the means for controlling controls the amount of heat conveyed from the means for heating to the means for regulating pressure, the means for controlling including a first means for controlling the means for regulating pressure disposed in a first chamber in the body and a second means for controlling the means for heating disposed in a second chamber in the body, the first fluid to flow into the first chamber via the first inlet and the second fluid to flow into the second chamber via the second inlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.