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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1995
John H Bowen, Greenfield Center, NY (US);
Jeffery A Lovett, Scotia, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method periodically sample a fluid stream in a conduit for undergoing analysis thereof. A sampling tube having a probe is joined to the conduit for removing samples from the stream flowing therethrough. An analyzer is joined to the sampling tube for analyzing the removed samples. A solenoid valve is disposed in the tube for controlling flow of the samples to the analyzer. A dynamic pressure transducer is joined to the conduit so that a specific dynamic pressure reference frequency of the stream in the conduit may be locked-on to and used for periodically switching the solenoid valve open and closed for intermittently removing stream samples from the conduit at the reference frequency for channeling to the analyzer periodic stream samples at a sampling frequency corresponding to the reference frequency. In a preferred embodiment, the solenoid valve is switched open at a specific sampling phase in the sampling frequency, which phase may be indexed for obtaining different periodic samples at the sampling frequency for measuring periodic and short duration concentration fluctuations.