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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);

Inventors:

Zhong-Xiang Zhu, Macungie, PA (US);

David M. Espie, Lansdale, PA (US);

Graeme Richard Wilson, Surrey, GB;

Gregory W. Henzler, Emmaus, PA (US);

Assignee:

AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC., Allentown, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B 49/16 (2006.01); F04B 41/06 (2006.01); F04B 49/03 (2006.01); F04B 49/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B 49/16 (2013.01); F04B 41/06 (2013.01); F04B 49/03 (2013.01); F04B 49/065 (2013.01); F04B 2205/01 (2013.01); F04B 2205/09 (2013.01);
Abstract

Controlling a capacity of the compression system in response to the variable incoming gas feed by: i) selectively varying a capacity of a first subset of one or more of the compressor trains by continuously varying the capacity of one or more cylinders of the one or more reciprocating compressor stages of the one or more compressor trains of the first subset between a maximum capacity and a minimum capacity; and/or ii) selectively varying a capacity of a second subset of one or more of the compressor trains by fully loading or fully unloading one or more cylinders of the one or more reciprocating compressor stages of the compressor trains of the second subset, wherein the first and second subsets are mutually exclusive.


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