US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on June 10 for "Systems and processes for turboquenching" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,682, issued on June 10, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Systems and processes for turboquenching" was invented by Rakesh Agrawal (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Edwin Andres Rodriguez Gil (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for quenching a high-temperature, above atmospheric pressure feed to a lower temperature without the need of any quenching fluid and with the additional benefit of coproducing electric power. The systems and processes provided here result in a simpler quenching process, which is particularly beneficial for quenching streams after high-temperatur...