US Patent Issued to Southwest Research Institute on Nov. 3 for "Thermal stress management for heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and other fluid-carrying or fluid-containing structures with high temperature transients" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,067, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio).

"Thermal stress management for heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and other fluid-carrying or fluid-containing structures with high temperature transients" was invented by Timothy C. Allison (San Antonio) and Michael P. Marshall (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing transient thermal stresses in a wall of a fluid-carrying or fluid-containing structure, the structure having a temperature ramp rate limit associated with its structure walls. The structure is provided with flow passages in the structure walls, and the temperature ...