US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for load control of reciprocating compressors" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,369, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Method and system for load control of reciprocating compressors" was invented by Zhong-Xiang Zhu (Macungie, Pa.), David M. Espie (Lansdale, Pa.), Graeme Richard Wilson (Surrey, Great Britain) and Gregory W. Henzler (Emmaus, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling a capacity of the compression system in response to the variable incoming gas feed by: i) selectively varying a capacity of a first subset of one or more of the compressor trains by continuously varying the capacity of one or more cylinders of the one or more reciprocating compr...