US Patent Issued to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for reducing noncondensable gas buildup in coolant systems" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,890, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for reducing noncondensable gas buildup in coolant systems" was invented by Necdet Kurul (Wilmington, N.C.), Charles L. Heck (Wilmington, N.C.) and David H. Hinds (Wilmington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems reduce noncondensable gasses within coolant systems with a recombiner into which the fluid coolant flows. Flow through the recombiner may be opposite that of a heat exchanger. The recombiner includes a catalyst that combines or degrades the noncondensable gasses, such as a Group 9-11 transition metal t...