Patents by Inventor Pierre Montagne

Pierre Montagne 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).

  • Publication number: 20230184170
    Abstract: This system for purging a fuel containing hydrogen comprises a gas turbine. The gas turbine comprises at least one combustion chamber (20) provided with at least one injector (52) of the fuel, an exhaust section and a hot gas circuit going from the combustion chamber (20) to the exhaust section. The system comprises at least one point of injection (A, A?) of air and/or of inert gas positioned on the hot gas circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Pierre MONTAGNE
  • Patent number: 11434817
    Abstract: Liquid fuel supply system (12) for a combustion system (14), in particular a gas turbine, including at least one storage tank (16) for liquid fuel supplying at least one injector (34) connected to a combustion chamber (32) of the combustion system (14), said liquid fuel supply system (12) including a first piping section (18) disposed downstream of the tank (16) and a second piping section (20) disposed downstream of the first piping section (18) and upstream of fuel nozzle (34) in each combustion chamber (32), said first piping section (18) including at least one pressurizing means (22), and at least one injecting point or entering (24) for a water-soluble product, and the second piping section (20) including a mixing and distribution flow device (26) configured to create an emulsion and distributing the emulsion flow rate to at least one piping (28) connected to said nozzle (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Baha Suleiman, Maher Aboujaib, Pierre Montagne, Paul Burchell Glaser, Sundar Amancherla
  • Patent number: 11230977
    Abstract: Method for optimizing the limitation of dust emissions from a gas turbine or combustion plant comprising a line for supplying liquid fuel oil, a line for generating fuel oil atomizing air, and a central controller, wherein: a first definition step, starting from a nominal temperature of the fuel oil and a nominal pressure ratio of the atomizing air of the fuel oil, and by controlling the injection of the soot inhibitor, of a nominal operating point corresponding to the maximum permissible level of emitted dust; a second step of controlling a first parameter, taken from the group of the fuel oil temperature and the pressure ratio of the fuel oil atomizing air, in order to reach another operating point; and a third step of controlling the soot inhibitor injection to achieve the maximum permissible level of emitted dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Matthieu Vierling, Pierre Montagne, Sven Catrin, Ezio Pena Saavedra, Mohamad-Maher Aboujaib
  • Patent number: 11028784
    Abstract: A control system for a gas turbine includes a controller. The controller includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of signals from sensors disposed in the gas turbine engine system, wherein the gas turbine system engine comprises a compressor section fluidly coupled to a gas turbine section. The processor is additionally configured to derive a vanadium content in a gas turbine engine fuel based on at least one of the plurality of signals. The processor is also configured to determine if a control curve should be adjusted based on the vanadium content in the gas turbine engine fuel, and if it is determined that the control curve should be adjusted, then deriving an adjustment to the control curve based on the vanadium content, and applying the adjustment to the control curve to derive an adjusted control curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pugalenthi Nandagopal, Vikram Muralidharan, Veerappan Muthaiah, Harold Jordan, Jr., Maher Mohamad Aboujaib, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Sanyu Victoria Nakibuuka Njuki, Pierre Montagne, Sven Sébastien Catrin, Ezio M. Pena Saavedra, Laurent Balcer, Dmitry Sokolov
  • Publication number: 20200088110
    Abstract: A control system for a gas turbine includes a controller. The controller includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of signals from sensors disposed in the gas turbine engine system, wherein the gas turbine system engine comprises a compressor section fluidly coupled to a gas turbine section. The processor is additionally configured to derive a vanadium content in a gas turbine engine fuel based on at least one of the plurality of signals. The processor is also configured to determine if a control curve should be adjusted based on the vanadium content in the gas turbine engine fuel, and if it is determined that the control curve should be adjusted, then deriving an adjustment to the control curve based on the vanadium content, and applying the adjustment to the control curve to derive an adjusted control curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Pugalenthi Nandagopal, Vikram Muralidharan, Veerappan Muthaiah, Harold Jordan, JR., Maher Mohamad Aboujaib, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Sanyu Victoria Nakibuuka Njuki, Pierre Montagne, Sven Sébastien Catrin, Ezio M. Pena Saavedra, Laurent Balcer, Dmitry Sokolov
  • Patent number: 10473060
    Abstract: A method and fuel supply system for supply of a combustion chamber with at least one combustible fluid are provided. The fuel supply system includes a combustion chamber, at least one supply circuit, and at least one purge circuit, the purge circuit coupled to the at least one supply circuit, the purge circuit including at least two isolation valves defining a cavity between, a source of relatively high temperature purge air coupled in flow communication to the cavity through one of the at least two isolation valves, a source of relatively low temperature ventilation air coupled in flow communication to the cavity, and a vent coupled in flow communication to the cavity, the at least one purge circuit configured to channel a flow of relatively low temperature ventilation air from the source relatively low temperature ventilation air through the cavity to the vent during operation of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Pierre Montagne
  • Publication number: 20190195142
    Abstract: Method for optimizing the limitation of dust emissions from a gas turbine or combustion plant comprising a line for supplying liquid fuel oil, a line for generating fuel oil atomizing air, and a central controller, wherein: a first definition step, starting from a nominal temperature of the fuel oil and a nominal pressure ratio of the atomizing air of the fuel oil, and by controlling the injection of the soot inhibitor, of a nominal operating point corresponding to the maximum permissible level of emitted dust; a second step of controlling a first parameter, taken from the group of the fuel oil temperature and the pressure ratio of the fuel oil atomizing air, in order to reach another operating point; and a third step of controlling the soot inhibitor injection to achieve the maximum permissible level of emitted dust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Matthieu Vierling, Pierre Montagne, Sven Catrin, Ezio Pena Saavedra, Mohamad-Maher Aboujaib
  • Publication number: 20190107049
    Abstract: Liquid fuel supply system (12) for a combustion system (14), in particular a gas turbine, including at least one storage tank (16) for liquid fuel supplying at least one injector (34) connected to a combustion chamber (32) of the combustion system (14), said liquid fuel supply system (12) including a first piping section (18) disposed downstream of the tank (16) and a second piping section (20) disposed downstream of the first piping section (18) and upstream of fuel nozzle (34) in each combustion chamber (32), said first piping section (18) including at least one pressurizing means (22), and at least one injecting point or entering (24) for a water-soluble product, and the second piping section (20) including a mixing and distribution flow device (26) configured to create an emulsion and distributing the emulsion flow rate to at least one piping (28) connected to said nozzle (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Baha Suleiman, Maher Aboujaib, Pierre Montagne, Paul Burchell Glaser, Sundar Amancherla
  • Publication number: 20170253821
    Abstract: A gas turbine process includes supplying a fuel to a gas turbine, combusting the fuel in the gas turbine with a hot gas path temperature reaching at least 1100° C. during operation of the gas turbine, and supplying an inhibition composition including at least one yttrium-containing inorganic compound to interact with the vanadium and inhibit vanadium hot corrosion in the gas turbine caused by vanadium as a fuel impurity in the fuel. A process includes supplying an inhibition composition including at least one yttrium-containing inorganic compound to a hot gas path or a combustor of a gas turbine. A fuel composition includes a fuel including at least one fuel impurity including vanadium and an inhibition composition including at least one yttrium-containing compound. An atomic ratio of yttrium to vanadium in the fuel composition is in a range of 1 to 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Pierre MONTAGNE, Krishnamurthy ANAND, Prajina BHATTACHARYA, Paul Stephen DIMASCIO, Jeffrey Scott GOLDMEER, Abdurrahman Abdallah KHALIDI, Praveen Babulal JAIN, Adarsh SHUKLA, Eklavya CALLA, Paul Burchell GLASER
  • Publication number: 20160177879
    Abstract: A method and fuel supply system for supply of a combustion chamber with at least one combustible fluid are provided. The fuel supply system includes a combustion chamber including a fuel injector, at least one supply circuit configured to supply the combustion chamber with a combustible fluid, and at least one purge circuit configured to purge the supply circuit, the purge circuit connected to a purge air source and the at least one supply circuit, the purge circuit including at least two isolation valves defining a cavity between the at least two isolation valves, the purge circuit including a water injection circuit configured to inject water into the cavity, the purge circuit including a cavity draining circuit configured to drain the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventor: Pierre Montagne
  • Publication number: 20160177878
    Abstract: A method and fuel supply system for supply of a combustion chamber with at least one combustible fluid are provided. The fuel supply system includes a combustion chamber, at least one supply circuit, and at least one purge circuit, the purge circuit coupled to the at least one supply circuit, the purge circuit including at least two isolation valves defining a cavity between, a source of relatively high temperature purge air coupled in flow communication to the cavity through one of the at least two isolation valves, a source of relatively low temperature ventilation air coupled in flow communication to the cavity, and a vent coupled in flow communication to the cavity, the at least one purge circuit configured to channel a flow of relatively low temperature ventilation air from the source relatively low temperature ventilation air through the cavity to the vent during operation of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventor: Pierre Montagne
  • Patent number: 9366188
    Abstract: A purge process of a gas turbine supply pipe network provided with fuel (diesel or natural gas) at least partly containing synthesis gas comprises of injection of inert gas in intervalve portions or collectors of the pipe network likely to contain fuel when the fuel supply is stopped. The injection of gas is implemented in the said portions of the network according to a sequence of respective injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: GE ENERGY PRODUCTS FRANCE SNC
    Inventor: Pierre Montagne
  • Patent number: 9121352
    Abstract: A device for purging a feed device that supplies liquid fuel to a gas turbine includes a combustion chamber that can be supplied alternately with gaseous and liquid fuel, and a purge air circuit that includes a manifold to distribute air to the combustion chamber, and at least one valve for regulating the air pressure in the purge air circuit. The purge device includes an electronic control unit that makes it possible to regulate the air pressure and flow rate in the purge air circuit according to the mode of operation of the gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: GE Energy Products France SNC
    Inventors: Pierre Montagne, Daniel Deloge, Alexandre Picard, Olivier Chapuis, Benoît Gartner
  • Publication number: 20130276452
    Abstract: This purge process of a gas turbine supply pipe network provided with fuel (diesel or natural gas) at least partly containing synthesis gas comprises of injection of inert gas in intervalve portions or collectors of the pipe network likely to contain fuel when the fuel supply is stopped. This injection of gas is implemented in the said portions of the network according to a sequence of respective injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Pierre MONTAGNE
  • Publication number: 20120137699
    Abstract: Device for purging a feed device (12) that supplies liquid fuel to a gas turbine comprising a combustion chamber (7) that can be supplied alternately with gaseous and liquid fuel, comprising a purge air circuit (17) comprising a manifold (21) able to distribute the air to the combustion chamber (7), and at least one air pressure regulating means (19) for regulating the air pressure in the purge circuit (17). The purge device comprises an electronic control unit (26) that makes it possible to regulate the air pressure and flow rate in the purge circuit (17) according to the mode of operation of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: GE ENERGY PRODUCTS FRANCE SNC
    Inventors: Pierre Montagne, Daniel Deloge, Alexandre Picard, Olivier Chapuis, Benoît Gartner