General Electric Company

Baker Hughes Energy Services LLC

Ge Oil & Gas UK Limited

Matthew Paul Rainka

Robert James Perry

Ching-Jen Tang

Peter John Bonitatibus

An absorption cycle apparatus including a working fluid is presented. The working fluid includes a metal halide, water and a zwitterion additive, wherein the zwitterion additive includes an amino acid, 2,2'-[(phosphonomethyl)imino]diaceticacid, 3-[(2-hydroxyethyl)amino]-1-propanesulfonic acid, or combinations thereof. A method of controlling crystallization in a working fluid of an absorption cycle apparatus is also presented.

Absorption cycle apparatus and related method

An absorbent composition includes an amino-siloxane having structure (I): wherein Ris independently at each occurrence a C-Caliphatic or aromatic radical; Ris independently at each occurrence a C-Caliphatic or aromatic radical; Ris independently at each occurrence a hydrogen atom or a C-Caliphatic or aromatic radical; Ris independently at each occurrence a C-Caliphatic or aromatic radical or R, wherein Rcomprises structure (II): wherein X is independently at each occurrence an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; w is between 0 and 5; y is between 0 and 10; and z is between 0 and 10; wherein, when Ris Rcomprising the structure (II), a sum of w, y, and z is greater than or equal to 0, and, when Ris not R, a sum of w, y, and z is greater than or equal to 1. 

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