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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Trane International Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US);
Daoud Ali Jandal, La Crosse, WI (US);
Brian Thomas Sullivan, La Crosse, WI (US);
Reginald Loyd Berry, Onalaska, WI (US);
Dennis Lee Justin, La Crosse, WI (US);
Matthew Aron Witt, La Crosse, WI (US);
Damion Scott Plymesser, De Soto, MN (US);
TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC., Davidson, NC (US);
Abstract
Generally, apparatuses, systems, and methods are described to prime a refrigerant pump by decoupling or shielding from a condenser operation, such as for example the condenser water pump, so that liquid refrigerant can be appropriately sourced from the condenser and/or the evaporator using flow control device(s) such as a source valve on a source line of the condenser and/or on a source line of the evaporator and the control of such valve(s).