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Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2021
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventor:

Constantinos Minas, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F 1/28 (2006.01); B64D 37/30 (2006.01); F17C 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F 1/28 (2013.01); F17C 7/04 (2013.01); B64D 37/30 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0631 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sub-cooler for a sub-cooling cryogenic refueling system is disclosed herein. The sub-cooler includes a first valve to separate flowing cryogenic fuel into a primary flowline and an auxiliary flowline, a second valve to reduce the saturated pressure and temperature of the cryogenic fuel in the auxiliary flowline, a cryogenic heat exchanger to transfer heat from the primary flowline to the auxiliary flowline, a temperature sensor to measure the temperature of the sub-cooled cryogenic fuel in the primary flowline, and a sub-cooler controller to control the effective areas of the primary flowline inlet and the auxiliary flowline inlet at the first valve.


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