Patents by Inventor Robert J. Sibthorp

Robert J. Sibthorp has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5347467
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for maintaining a main process gas parameter such as suction pressure discharge pressure, discharge flow, etc. of a compressor station with multiple dynamic compressors, which enables a station controller controlling the main process gas parameter to increase or decrease the total station performance to restore the main process gas parameter to a required level, first by simultaneous change of performances of all individual compressors, for example, by decreasing their speeds, and then after operating points of all machines reach their respective surge control lines, by simultaneous opening of individual antisurge valves. In the proposed load-sharing scheme, one compressor is automatically selected as a leading machine. For parallel operation, the compressor which is selected as the leader is the one having the largest distance to its surge control line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Compressor Controls Corporation
    Inventors: Naum Staroselsky, Saul Mirsky, Paul A. Reinke, Paul M. Negley, Robert J. Sibthorp