Patents Represented by Attorney Mary L. Gioeni
  • Patent number: 7818156
    Abstract: A method includes assessing corrosion in a refinery operation having a piping network. Assessing can include identifying in a petroleum sample a presence and an amount of a species determined to be potentially corrosive to corrodible equipment in a refinery. A corrosion risk presented by the presence, the amount, and the boiling point of the species is determined. And, the corrosion risk is evaluated in view of piping network information. A system for implementing the method is provided, also.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pramod Vachhani, Sunil Shirish Shah, Collin Wade Cross, Yatin Tayalia, Nishith Pramod Vora, Raghunandan Murthy