Patents by Inventor Fredric Samuel Russ

Fredric Samuel Russ 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: 9138670
    Abstract: A system includes a particulate removal system configured to remove particulates from a syngas to generate a treated syngas and a particulate flow. The particulate removal system includes a shell. The shell includes a syngas inlet configured to receive the syngas, a syngas outlet configured to discharge the treated syngas, and a particulate outlet configured to discharge the particulate flow. The particulate removal system also includes a particulate collection surface disposed in the shell and configured to adhere the particulates from the syngas to the particulate collection surface as the particulate collection surface rotates toward the syngas and to separate the particulates from the particulate collection surface as the particulate collection surface rotates away from the syngas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jay Christopher Schleicher, Fredric Samuel Russ
  • Publication number: 20140271397
    Abstract: A system includes a heat exchanger including a first channel having a syngas flow path and a second channel having a slurry flow path. The heat exchanger, when in operation, causes a heat transfer from a syngas along the syngas flow path to a slurry along the slurry flow path. The heat transfer causes heating of the slurry from a first slurry temperature to a second slurry temperature and causes cooling of the syngas from a first syngas temperature to a second syngas temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Fredric Samuel Russ, Hemal Navinchandra Rupani, Douglas Kirk Holland, Michael Dean Carter, Adrian Eugene Jackson
  • Patent number: 8753440
    Abstract: The present embodiments are directed towards the cooling of a solvent of a gas treatment system using a fluid flow from an air separation unit. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes an air separation unit. The air separation unit has an air inlet configured to receive an air flow, an oxygen outlet configured to output an oxygen flow, a nitrogen outlet configured to output a nitrogen flow and a cooling system configured to cool the air flow to enable separation of the air flow into the oxygen flow and the nitrogen flow, wherein the cooling system is configured to cool a first solvent of a first gas treatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Fredric Samuel Russ, George Frederick Frey, Charles Martin Mitchell, Paul William Plummer
  • Publication number: 20140120004
    Abstract: A system includes a particulate removal system configured to remove particulates from a syngas to generate a treated syngas and a particulate flow. The particulate removal system includes a shell. The shell includes a syngas inlet configured to receive the syngas, a syngas outlet configured to discharge the treated syngas, and a particulate outlet configured to discharge the particulate flow. The particulate removal system also includes a particulate collection surface disposed in the shell and configured to adhere the particulates from the syngas to the particulate collection surface as the particulate collection surface rotates toward the syngas and to separate the particulates from the particulate collection surface as the particulate collection surface rotates away from the syngas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jay Christopher Schleicher, Fredric Samuel Russ
  • Publication number: 20120227442
    Abstract: The present embodiments are directed towards the cooling of a solvent of a gas treatment system using a fluid flow from an air separation unit. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes an air separation unit. The air separation unit has an air inlet configured to receive an air flow, an oxygen outlet configured to output an oxygen flow, a nitrogen outlet configured to output a nitrogen flow and a cooling system configured to cool the air flow to enable separation of the air flow into the oxygen flow and the nitrogen flow, wherein the cooling system is configured to cool a first solvent of a first gas treatment system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Fredric Samuel Russ, George Frederick Frey, Charles Martin Mitchell, Paul William Plummer