US Patent Issued to Constellation Energy Generation on Feb. 18 for "Copper-fouling-resistant stator water cooling (SWC) system and method" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,849, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Constellation Energy Generation LLC (Kennett Square, Pa.).

"Copper-fouling-resistant stator water cooling (SWC) system and method" was invented by Andrew Delano Odell (Kennett Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a stator water cooling (SWC) system in an electrical power generator with improved resistance to copper fouling, more specifically, to a component of the SWC system, such as a strainer, having an anti-fouling metallic material on the surface of the component. Also described herein is a method of reducing copper fouling in a SWC system that comprises applying a...