US Patent Issued to Refined Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Integrated knockout drum and heat exchanger for use in cleaning process" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,430, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Refined Technologies Inc. (Spring, Texas).

"Integrated knockout drum and heat exchanger for use in cleaning process" was invented by Michael J. Russek (Corpus Christi, Texas) and William J. Drennan (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit and system are operable with cooling fluid for handling effluent produced in a cleaning process of refinery equipment. A drum of the unit has an inlet for the effluent, a liquid outlet for condensed effluent, and a vapor outlet for uncondensed effluent. A shell disposed in an interior of the drum and has a passage communicating outside the drum. A ...