MUMBAI, India, June 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527049932 A) filed by Tdw Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, U.S.A., on May 23, for 'hydrogen-ready closure door for pipeline use.'
Inventor(s) include Poe, Roger, L; Maslen, Jon; Landreth, Kolton; and Hightower, Jed.
The application for the patent was published on June 20, under issue no. 25/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A closure for pipelines carrying a fluid under pressure, the closure includes at one or more seals located on a vertical sealing face of the barrel collar along a leak pathway between a horizontal sealing face of the barrel collar and an ambient environment. In some embodiments, the horizontal sealing face includes a primary seal. The one or more seals are adapted to prevent the escape of fluids having a lower molecular weight than that of the main pipeline product or fluid contained by the closure, and is arranged to alter a path of a leak pathway to the ambient environment and to cause at a pressure drop across the one or more seals. The closure may also include a leak check valve for blowdown."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 30, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/078191.
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