Patents by Inventor Peter Vertens

Peter Vertens 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).

  • Method of operating a gas turbine and a process and apparatus for fuel control for gas turbines
    Patent number: 5406784
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for controlling flow of fuel in a gas turbine has a fuel control unit which comprises piston pumps which have at least two piston elements working in opposite phase to one another, and which can be operated in opposite phase, so that the flow of fuel to the injector nozzle is sufficiently constant. This constancy of the fuel flow is thereby a function of the delivery frequency and the number of pump piston elements operating in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: MaK System Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Peter Vertens, Bernd Drager
  • Method of operating a gas turbine and a process and apparatus for starting a gas turbine
    Patent number: 5369948
    Abstract: Method of operating a gas turbine and a process and apparatus for starting a gas turbine. In this apparatus with a startup controller for a gas turbine, the amount of fuel injected by controlled dosing pumps is determined, whereby the amount of fuel injected can be regulated as a function of the difference between the injection pressure and the compressor pressure in the combustion chamber of the turbine, or at the compressor outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: MaK System Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Peter Vertens, Bernd Drager