Gas separation: processes – With control responsive to sensed condition
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-09
2008-10-28
Hopkins, Robert A (Department: 1797)
Gas separation: processes
With control responsive to sensed condition
C095S039000, C095S090000, C096S004000, C096S135000, C096S417000, C096S420000, C096S421000, C096S422000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07442230
ABSTRACT:
An inert gas generating system for generating inert gas on a vehicle having a fuel tank and a fuel tank vent. The system includes an inlet for receiving a flow of gas having a nitrogen component and an oxygen component from a gas source, a heat exchanger downstream from the inlet and in fluid communication with the inlet for cooling gas received from the inlet, and a gas separation module downstream from the heat exchanger and in fluid communication with the heat exchanger for separating gas received from the heat exchanger into a nitrogen-enriched gas flow and an oxygen-enriched gas flow. The gas separation module is adapted to deliver nitrogen-enriched gas from the nitrogen-enriched gas flow to the fuel tank without delivering the nitrogen-enriched gas through the fuel tank vent. The gas separation module is also adapted to deliver nitrogen-enriched gas from the nitrogen-enriched gas flow to the fuel tank vent.
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Hopkins Robert A
Lee & Hayes PLLC
The Boeing Company
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