US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 4 for "Heat transfer system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,940, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Heat transfer system" was invented by Andrew Clarke (Cambridge, Great Britain), Debora Campos de Faria (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Snoswell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer device, such as a heat exchanger, has dimensions and flow speed such that Reynolds number for the flow is in a range from 1 to 1000. The device uses a working fluid which is in a state of elastic turbulence. This enhances transfer of heat to or from the working fluid. In some embodiments the fluid is an emulsion with a disperse...