Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Thomas W Schuck

Xianrui Huang

David Jonathan Chalk

James VanOmmeren

Lawrence Vincent Bischke

Stanley Louis Morton

Shaun Patrick O'Shea

Lawrence V Bischke

Shaun P O'shea

Stanley L Morton

An apparatus and method for precooling a mass to be cooled to a final low temperature by immersion in a cryogenic liquid, e.g. liquefied helium. The gaseous phase of the cryogenic liquid is cooled by heat exchange with a cryogenic liquid having a higher boiling point than the cryogenic liquid within which the mass is to be immersed. The cooled gaseous phase is circulated through a vessel containing the mass, recovered, recooled and recirculated until the mass and its containment vessel are at the desired precooling temperature. Thereafter cryogenic liquid can be introduced into the vessel to immerse the mass.

Method and apparatus for precooling a mass prior to immersion in a

A vent termination assembly for a vertical pipe, stack or tube including a hinged flapper to normally close the end of said vent termination assembly and at least one downwardly sloping normally open to the atmosphere side pipe bevelled to discharge generally upward. The flapper contains energy adsorbing side beams to reduce velocity of the flapper during opening.

Vent pipe termination with flapper and side vent

Method and apparatus for delivering high pressure gas to a point of use over a wide range of flowrates by storing said gas as a cryogenic fluid, removing said cryogenic fluid by means of a single stage reciprocating piston-type pump/compressor adapted to utilize liquid, vaporized liquid, a mixture of liquid and vaporized liquid, or supercritical fluid as the inlet fluid to said pump while maintaining the inlet fluid under cryogenic conditions. Blowby from the pump is recycled to the system. Discharge fluid may also be recycled to the system.

Method and apparatus for delivering a continuous quantity of gas over a

A pump for compressing a low temperature high density liquid gas, e.g. liquid helium, wherein the piston is driven by a motor through a four bar linkage which converts rotary motion to reciprocating motion. The pump also includes an improved piston ring assembly, piston venting apparatus and a cushioned discharge valve. A two-stage pump in combination with support equipment provides an improved pumping cycle wherein low temperature density liquid or gas e.g. liquid helium can be withdrawn from a storage reservoir, vaporized and compressed into cylinders.

High pressure helium pump for liquid or supercritical gas

A liquid cryogen pump in which liquid is maintained on both sides of the pump piston during operation. In the preferred embodiment, vapor, when present in the pump chamber, is passed from in front to behind the piston by providing a predetermined clearance between the piston and the cylinder in which it is reciprocated. The clearance is preferably large enough to pass enough liquid cryogen to maintain the desired head of liquid behind the piston. In the embodiment set forth, the pump is arranged so that it can be immersed in the liquid cryogen to be pumped with its pumping chamber and valves at or close to the bottom of the liquid cryogen supply. Heat transfer between the warm, upper end of the pump and its cold end is effectively restricted, and, preferably, the warm end is connected to the cold end of the pump by thin-walled tubular members formed of low thermal conductive materials to minimize heat transfer by conduction.

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Easton, PA, United States of America

Thomas W Schuck