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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2021
Applicant:
Tpe Midstream Llc, Tulsa, OK (US);
Inventor:
Douglas A. Sahm, Lutz, FL (US);
Assignee:
TPE MIDSTREAM LLC, Tulsa, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15D 1/02 (2006.01); F16L 55/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F15D 1/02 (2013.01); F16L 55/07 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus to evacuate fluid from a pipe is disclosed herein. The example apparatus includes a pressure gauge coupled to a pipe, a fluid evacuation system coupled to the pipe, the fluid evacuation system to evacuate a first fluid from the pipe and, in response to the pressure gauge measuring a first pressure in the pipe, stop evacuating the first fluid from the pipe, and a gas supply coupled to the pipe, the gas supply to supply a second fluid to the pipe and, in response to the pressure gauge measuring a second pressure in the pipe, stop supplying the second fluid to the pipe.