US 12,311,330 B2
Self-cleaning conduits for hydrocarbon fluids
Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Bengaluru (IN); Hiranya Nath, Bengaluru (IN); Thomas D. Woodrow, Wyoming, OH (US); Scott Alan Schimmels, Miamisburg, OH (US); Arvind Namadevan, Bengaluru (IN); Mohan Raju, Bengaluru (IN); Subramani Adhiachari, Bengaluru (IN); Prasant Bilaiya, Bengaluru (IN); and Rajesh Kumar, Bengaluru (IN)
Assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/054,735.
Claims priority of application No. 202211037978 (IN), filed on Jul. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0001323 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B01J 19/00 (2006.01); F16N 39/00 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 19/0026 (2013.01) [F16N 39/00 (2013.01); F16N 2210/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A self-cleaning conduit for a hydrocarbon fluid, the conduit comprising:
a tube having an interior surface defining a flow passage for the hydrocarbon fluid; and
a mesh positioned within the flow passage to abut the interior surface and movable along the interior surface to break-up deposits on the interior surface, the mesh being characterized by a mesh activation parameter (MAP) from one ten thousandths to six tenths.