Patents by Inventor Robert Warren Taylor
Robert Warren Taylor 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).
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Patent number: 10502136Abstract: A filtration system and methods of assembly and operation are provided. The filtration system includes an array of perforated tubes in flow communication with a flow of intake air. Each perforated tube comprises a solids inlet and a solids outlet. The system also includes a solids feed system comprising a feed line coupled in flow communication with said solids inlet and configured to channel sorbent material through each perforated tube in said array. The filtration system also includes a monitoring arrangement for monitoring a parameter associated with the intake air, and varying the operation of the system based upon said parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: BHA Altair, LLCInventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Stephen David Hiner, Paul Sherwood Bryant
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Patent number: 10220353Abstract: A media comprising a hydrophobic media layer and a hydrophilic matrix applied to one face of the hydrophobic media layer is provided. The media may be incorporated into a filter cartridge for an air filtration system for a gas turbine engine. The media may have the capability to wick droplets of water.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: BHA Altair, LLCInventor: Robert Warren Taylor
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Patent number: 9492780Abstract: A sorption arrangement for a gas turbine includes a sorbent-laden media. The sorbent-laden media is positioned within an inlet system for the gas turbine. The sorbent-laden media includes one or more sorbents. The sorbent-laden media contacts inlet air passing through the inlet system for the gas turbine such that gas phase contaminants are removed from the inlet air by the sorbent-laden media. A method of removing gas phase contaminants within an inlet system of a gas turbine is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: BHA Altair, LLCInventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Stephen David Hiner, Paul Sherwood Bryant, Vishal Bansal
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Publication number: 20160097324Abstract: A filtration system and methods of assembly and operation are provided. The filtration system includes an array of perforated tubes in flow communication with a flow of intake air. Each perforated tube comprises a solids inlet and a solids outlet. The system also includes a solids feed system comprising a feed line coupled in flow communication with said solids inlet and configured to channel sorbent material through each perforated tube in said array. The filtration system also includes a monitoring arrangement for monitoring a parameter associated with the intake air, and varying the operation of the system based upon said parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2014Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: BHA ALTAIR, LLCInventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Stephen David Hiner, Paul Sherwood Bryant
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Publication number: 20160061158Abstract: A media comprising a hydrophobic media layer and a hydrophilic matrix applied to one face of the hydrophobic media layer is provided. The media may be incorporated into a filter cartridge for an air filtration system for a gas turbine engine. The media may have the capability to wick droplets of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: BHA ALTAIR, LLCInventor: Robert Warren Taylor
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Publication number: 20160060554Abstract: A method of regulating a Modified Wobbe index number (MWI) of a multi-composition gas fuel supplied to one or more combustors of a gas turbine is disclosed. A rapid temperature swing absorber comprising a skid or platform comprising one or more reactor vessels is also disclosed, the one or more vessels comprising a plurality of hollow fibers each of which is impregnated by one or more sorbents for the separation of one or more deleterious gases from a fuel stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Ryan Margate Pastrana
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Publication number: 20150196868Abstract: A sorption arrangement for a gas turbine includes a sorbent-laden media. The sorbent-laden media is positioned within an inlet system for the gas turbine. The sorbent-laden media includes one or more sorbents. The sorbent-laden media contacts inlet air passing through the inlet system for the gas turbine such that gas phase contaminants are removed from the inlet air by the sorbent-laden media. A method of removing gas phase contaminants within an inlet system of a gas turbine is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Stephen David Hiner, Paul Sherwood Bryant, Vishal Bansal
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Publication number: 20150151236Abstract: A filter media is provided. The filter media includes a porous membrane material, and at least one fiber stitched into the porous membrane material. A property of the filter media is selected as a function of a stitch configuration of the at least one fiber in the filter media.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: BHA Altair, LLCInventors: Vishal Bansal, Ryan Margate Pastrana, Martin Gregory Hatfield, Robert Warren Taylor, Todd Joseph Scheerer
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Publication number: 20140208942Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for generating an alert message based on a determined crossing of a weight threshold of a filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Robert Warren Taylor, Sanji Ekanayake, John D. Clark
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Patent number: 8651066Abstract: A pulse detonation cleaning system is provided and includes a common tube, which is fluidly coupled to a vessel, a first array, including a plurality of elongate detonation tubes arrayed about a common axis, each of the plurality of the detonation tubes being disposed upstream from and fluidly coupled to an interior of the common tube and a second array, including a plurality of detonators arrayed about the common axis, each of the plurality of the detonators being disposed upstream from and operably coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes such that actuation of each of the plurality of the detonators leads to combustion in the corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: BHA Altair, LLCInventors: Tian Xuan Zhang, David Michael Chapin, Robert Warren Taylor
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Publication number: 20140017365Abstract: Methods and systems for fluid stabilization are provided. The system includes a first electrical field generator positioned adjacent to a first passage. The first electrical field generator imparts a first electrical field to a fluid flowing through the first passage such that first particles and second particles entrained in the fluid are charged to a first polarity. A first collector positioned within the first passage collects the first particles charged in the fluid. A second electrical field generator positioned adjacent to a second passage is downstream from the first electrical field generator. The second electrical field generator imparts a second electrical field to the fluid discharged from the first passage and substantially neutralizes the second particles entrained in the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Bradley Stephen Rogers, James Easel Roberts, Allen Lawrence Garner
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Publication number: 20130263893Abstract: The present application provides a pulse detonation combustor cleaning device. The pulse detonation combustor cleaning device may include a combustion section and one or more combustion tube sections downstream of the combustion section. The combustion tube sections may a divergent shape and a number of divergent obstacles therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Tian Xuan Zhang, David Michael Chapin, Robert Warren Taylor, Miles Alan Peregoy
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Publication number: 20130219842Abstract: A filter for use within a baghouse for filtering particulate material from fluid flow. The filter is to be supported by a tubesheet of the baghouse. The filter includes an elongate bag that has an open end adapted to be disposed adjacent to the tubesheet and an encircling sidewall that extends from the open end to a distal end of the bag. The sidewall permits passage of fluid there through so that the fluid may pass through the bag and blocks passage of particulate material. The filter includes an elongate cage that is located within and supporting the bag and that has a variable effective length. The filter includes cage-associated structure for increasing the effective length of the cage to maintain the sidewall to be taut adjacent the cage. The cage may include structure inhibiting movement of the cage. The filter may be part of a baghouse assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Greg Strugalski, James Roy Doehla, Robert Warren Taylor, Heath Curtis Johnson
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Patent number: 8506676Abstract: A waste heat recovery system is provided. The waste heat recovery system includes a gas separation apparatus that includes a chamber and at least one membrane positioned within the chamber. The gas separation apparatus is configured to produce a retentate that includes at least a combustible gas and a permeate that includes at least a waste gas, wherein the waste gas includes at least a noncombustible gas. Moreover, the waste heat recovery system includes a burner that is coupled to the gas separation apparatus, wherein the burner is configured to receive the permeate and to combust the permeate such that heat is generated from the permeate. Further, a heat recovery steam generator is coupled to the burner and configured to recover heat generated by the burner.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Robert Warren Taylor
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Patent number: 8479489Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system and a method for recirculating an exhaust gas stream from an outlet to an inlet of a turbomachine are provided. The EGR system includes a guide element to channel the exhaust gas stream from the inlet to the outlet and a Rankine cycle system through which a working fluid is circulated. The Rankine cycle system including serially a high temperature heat exchanger in heat exchange relationship with the guide element; an expansion device coupled to a generator; a low temperature heat exchanger in heat exchange relationship with a cooling medium; and a pump. The exhaust stream at the outlet has a first temperature and the exhaust stream downstream of the high temperature heat exchanger has a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Warren Taylor, James Easel Roberts
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Patent number: 8434308Abstract: A first portion of each of a plurality of Qu-type heat pipes is disposed in a hot gas path, and a second portion of each of the plurality of Qu-type heat pipes disposed away from the hot gas path. Also, the first portion of each of the plurality of Qu-type heat pipes extracts heat from the hot gas path and wherein the second portion of each of the plurality of Qu-type heat pipes creates a vapor that exits each second portion of the plurality of Qu-type heat pipes and away from the hot gas path.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles Michael Booth, Larry William Swanson, Robert Warren Taylor
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Patent number: 8349056Abstract: A system includes a direct contact absorber configured to circulate a flow of a liquid desiccant solution for absorbing moisture from a gas stream flowing through the direct contact absorber.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Robert Warren Taylor
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Patent number: 8309045Abstract: A system includes an emissions control system. The emissions control system includes a chemical injection conduit. The emissions control system also includes a chemical injector coupled to the chemical injection conduit, wherein the chemical injector is configured to output an emissions control chemical into the chemical injection conduit. The emissions control system further includes a wave generator coupled to the chemical injection conduit, wherein the wave generator is configured to output multiple waves that propagate through the chemical injection conduit into a flow path of combustion products to drive improved mixing of the emissions control chemical with the combustion products.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Tian Xuan Zhang, David Michael Chapin, Robert Warren Taylor, David Kelly Moyeda, Peter Martin Maly
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Publication number: 20120279128Abstract: A pulse detonation device is provided for delivering a shock wave into a gasification device to promote a localized coal gasification reaction in the gasification device. The pulse detonation device includes a fuel inlet for receiving fuel, an air inlet for receiving air, a pulse detonation chamber wherein the fuel and air are configured to mix, and an ignition device for igniting the mixture of fuel and air. The ignition of the mixture of fuel and air creates a shock wave in the pulse detonation chamber. Further, the pulse detonation chamber is attached to a gasification chamber and is configured to extend into a coal feed tube that extends into the gasification chamber, with the shock wave configured to exit the pulse detonation chamber and interact with coal in the coal feed tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: BHA Group, Inc.Inventors: Tian Xuan Zhang, David Michael Chapin, Robert Warren Taylor
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Publication number: 20120216728Abstract: A pulse detonation coal burner includes a burner body having an inlet and an outlet, and a fuel introduction system coupled to the inlet of the burner body. The fuel introduction system is configured and disposed to introduce at least one fuel into the burner body. A pulse detonation device is operatively coupled to the burner body. The pulse detonation device is configured and disposed to introduce a pulse detonation wave into the burner body to ignite the at least one fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Tian Xuan Zhang, Peter Martin Maly, David Kelly Moyeda, Robert Warren Taylor