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System for cooling heat generating electrically active components for subsea applications

US9777966B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

General Electric Company · US

Inventors

Mark Aaron Chan Chan · Bad Abbach, DE
Stefan Schroeder · Garching bei München, DE
Piniwan Thiwanka Bandara Wijekoon · Nuremberg, DE
Eric A. Browne · Westford, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 30, 2014
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 8, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH05K7/20927
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A subsea power module includes an outer pressure compensated vessel defining an interior chamber and one or more heat generating electrical components disposed within the interior chamber. The outer pressure compensated vessel is configured to maintain a pressure within the interior chamber substantially the same as an ambient pressure outside the outer pressure compensated vessel. Each of the electrical components may be disposed within an inner chamber of a pressure vessel disposed within the interior chamber of the outer pressure compensated vessel. Each of the one or more heat generating electrical components is configured to transfer heat generated within the interior chamber of the outer pressure compensated vessel through the wall defining the interior chamber to a fluid, such as seawater, surrounding the outer pressure compensated vessel.

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