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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2015
Echogen Power Systems Llc, Akron, OH (US);
Jason Lee Preuss, Lakewood, CO (US);
Timothy J. Held, Akron, OH (US);
ECHOGEN POWER SYSTEMS LLC, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A method includes controlling a bearing fluid supply system to provide the bearing fluid to a hydrostatic bearing of the turbopump assembly. The bearing fluid includes a supercritical working fluid. The method also includes receiving data corresponding to a pressure of the bearing fluid measured at or near a bearing fluid drain fluidly coupled to the hydrostatic bearing, determining a thermodynamic state of the bearing fluid at or near the bearing fluid drain based at least in part on the received data, and controlling a backpressure regulation valve to throttle the backpressure regulation valve between an opened position and a closed position to regulate a backpressure in a bearing fluid discharge line to maintain the bearing fluid in a supercritical state in the hydrostatic bearing and/or at or near the bearing fluid drain.