Patents Assigned to Texaco Group, Inc.
  • Method for equalizing steam quality in pipe networks
    Patent number: 5709468
    Abstract: Steam quality at both outlets of an impact T-Junction is equalized by a static mixer having corrugated lamella plates immediately adjacent the inlet leg to the junction causing substantial homogenization of the liquid and vapor phases of wet steam entering the junction so that the steam exiting both outlet legs of the junction will have substantially the same quality as the steam entering the junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Texaco Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Anderson Woerheide, James Raymond Stoy, Mark Timothy Rubel