Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm William V. Haefliger
  • Transcritical turbine and method of operation
    Patent number: 6644062
    Abstract: A process employing a rotary axial turbine, and a nozzle, that includes providing a working fluid expansible from a characteristic supercritical region into the wet region, expanding the fluid from said supercritical region into the wet region via the nozzle and turbine blades, and providing an output shaft driven by the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Energent Corporation
    Inventor: Lance G. Hays