US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Feb. 10 for "System and method for identification and forecasting fouling of heat exchangers in a refinery" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,800, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for identification and forecasting fouling of heat exchangers in a refinery" was invented by Vishal Sudam Jadhav (Pune, India), Anirudh Deodhar (Pune, India), Sakhinana Sagar Srinivas (Pune, India) and Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fouling is formation of deposits on the heat exchanger surfaces that adversely affects operation of heat exchanger. Fouling can be approximated through a set of estimated heat exchanger parameters, which may not be accurate, leading to uncertainty in operation/maint...