ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,487, issued on July 7.
"Methods and systems of compressor control with surge avoidance and response" was invented by Jaroslav Pekar (Pacov, Czech Republic) and Daniel Youssef (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for surge control in a compressor system. A recirculation valve position may be actuated in response to identified conditions of potential surge, determined from a compressor map. Recirculation valve position may be controlled by calculating distance of current operating state to a surge line and using proportional integral control to manage the distance. Compressor speed command may be dera...