US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 13 for "Vortex cooled secondary flow for a supercritical carbon dioxide pump" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,845, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Vortex cooled secondary flow for a supercritical carbon dioxide pump" was invented by David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), David Justin Brady (Lynn, Mass.), Adam Joseph Wangler (Evendale, Ohio) and Santosh Kumar Pattnaik (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to provide vortex cooled secondary flow for a supercritical carbon dioxide pump are disclosed herein. An example thermal management system includes a hot secondary flow extract section fluidly coupled to an outlet of a pump system, a cooled secondary flow section flu...