US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS, Yokogawa Saudi Arabia on April 15 for "Double pipe heat exchanger fouling compensation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,991, issued on April 15, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Yokogawa Saudi Arabia Co. (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

"Double pipe heat exchanger fouling compensation" was invented by Sami El Ferik (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mustafa Al-Nasser (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Rached Ben Mansour (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Eltoum (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure presents methods and systems of controlling a counter flow double pipe heat exchanger (DPHE) that includes a hot fluid pipe and a cold fluid pipe. In a method, a temperature e...