General Electric Company

Prasant Bilaiya

Ravindra Shankar Ganiger

Hiranya Kumar Nath

Scott Alan Schimmels

Rajesh Kumar

Mohan Kannaiah Raju

Arvind Namadevan

Subramani Adhiachari

Thomas DeWitt Woodrow

A self-cleaning conduit for a hydrocarbon fluid. The conduit includes a tube and a mesh. The tube has an interior surface defining a flow passage for the hydrocarbon fluid. The mesh is positioned within the flow passage to abut the interior surface and movable along the interior surface to break-up deposits on the interior surface. The mesh is characterized by a mesh activation parameter (MAP) from one ten thousandths to six tenths.

Self-cleaning conduits for hydrocarbon fluids

A self-cleaning conduit for a hydrocarbon fluid. The conduit includes a tube and a movable sleeve. The tube has an interior surface defining a flow passage for the hydrocarbon fluid. The movable sleeve is positioned within the flow passage to abut the interior surface and is movable along the interior surface in response to a change in an operating characteristic of the conduit to break-up deposits on the interior surface.

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