ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,777, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).
"Turboexpander islanding operation" was invented by Suratkal P. Shenoy (Cerritos, Calif.), Liping Zheng (Cerritos, Calif.), Jeremy Liu (Norwalk, Calif.) and Freddie Sarhan (Cerritos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turboexpander can operate as a microgrid electric generator for islanding operations. The turboexpander can recover energy lost during a pressure letdown sequence to generate electricity. Pressurized process gas can cause a turbine to rotate, thereby rotating a rotor within a stator of the turboexpander. A power electronics can ...