Patents by Inventor Sanji Ekanayake

Sanji Ekanayake 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: 11859533
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine system includes a gas turbine engine including a compressor, combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors supplied with secondary fuel; gas turbine, and wash system configured to be attached and in fluid communication with the late lean fuel injectors. The wash system includes a water source including water; first fluid source including a first fluid providing vanadium ash and vanadium deposit mitigation and removal from internal gas turbine components; a mixing chamber in communication with the water source and first fluid source; a water pump to pump the water to the mixing chamber; a first fluid pump the first fluid to the mixing chamber; a fluid line in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and late lean fuel injectors so fluid from the mixing chamber is injected into the combustor at the late lean fuel injectors while the gas turbine engine is on-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 11814972
    Abstract: A system comprises a gas turbine engine including a compressor, combustor, gas turbine, the combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors; and wash system configured to be attached to and in fluid communication with the a plurality of late lean fuel injectors of the combustor. The wash system includes a water source supplying water; a first fluid source supplying a first fluid; a mixing chamber in communication with the water source and first fluid source; a water pump to pump water to the mixing chamber; a first fluid pump to pump the first fluid to the mixing chamber; a fluid line in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and at least one of the plurality of late lean fuel injectors so fluid from the mixing chamber is injected into the combustor at late lean fuel injectors. The wash system is operated with the gas turbine engine off-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Justin Todd Eggart, Colin Noel Stevens, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Publication number: 20230115387
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine system includes a compressor, gas turbine, and combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors supplied with secondary fuel to its interior. The gas turbine engine system includes a wash system in communication with the late lean fuel injectors. The wash system includes a water source; water pump; anti-corrosion agent fluid source with an anti-corrosion agent including a amine corrosion inhibitor; anti-corrosion agent supply piping in fluid communication with the anti-corrosion agent fluid source; mixing chamber receiving water and anti-corrosion agent to produce an anti-corrosion mixture in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and the plurality of late lean fuel injectors. Fluid from the mixing chamber including the water, the anti-corrosion agent fluid source, or a mixture thereof is injected, while the gas turbine engine is off-line, into the combustor and at least one of the plurality of late lean fuel injectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Colin Noel Stevens, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 11555415
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine system includes a compressor, gas turbine, and combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors supplied with secondary fuel to its interior. The gas turbine engine system includes a wash system in communication with the late lean fuel injectors. The wash system includes a water source; water pump; anti-corrosion agent fluid source with an anti-corrosion agent including a polyamine corrosion inhibitor; anti-corrosion agent supply piping in fluid communication with the anti-corrosion agent fluid source; mixing chamber receiving water and anti-corrosion agent to produce an anti-corrosion mixture in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and the plurality of late lean fuel injectors. Fluid from the mixing chamber including the water, the anti-corrosion agent fluid source, or a mixture thereof is injected, while the gas turbine engine is off-line, into the combustor at at least one of the plurality of late lean fuel injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Colin Noel Stevens, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Publication number: 20220389833
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine system includes a compressor, gas turbine, and combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors supplied with secondary fuel to its interior. The gas turbine engine system includes a wash system in communication with the late lean fuel injectors. The wash system includes a water source; water pump; anti-corrosion agent fluid source with an anti-corrosion agent including a polyamine corrosion inhibitor; anti-corrosion agent supply piping in fluid communication with the anti-corrosion agent fluid source; mixing chamber receiving water and anti-corrosion agent to produce an anti-corrosion mixture in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and the plurality of late lean fuel injectors. Fluid from the mixing chamber including the water, the anti-corrosion agent fluid source, or a mixture thereof is injected, while the gas turbine engine is off-line, into the combustor at at least one of the plurality of late lean fuel injectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Colin Noel Stevens, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Publication number: 20220389863
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine system includes a gas turbine engine including a compressor, combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors supplied with secondary fuel; gas turbine, and wash system configured to be attached and in fluid communication with the late lean fuel injectors. The wash system includes a water source including water; first fluid source including a first fluid providing vanadium ash and vanadium deposit mitigation and removal from internal gas turbine components; a mixing chamber in communication with the water source and first fluid source; a water pump to pump the water to the mixing chamber; a first fluid pump the first fluid to the mixing chamber; a fluid line in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and late lean fuel injectors so fluid from the mixing chamber is injected into the combustor at the late lean fuel injectors while the gas turbine engine is on-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Publication number: 20220389832
    Abstract: A system comprises a gas turbine engine including a compressor, combustor, gas turbine, the combustor including a plurality of late lean fuel injectors; and wash system configured to be attached to and in fluid communication with the a plurality of late lean fuel injectors of the combustor. The wash system includes a water source supplying water; a first fluid source supplying a first fluid; a mixing chamber in communication with the water source and first fluid source; a water pump to pump water to the mixing chamber; a first fluid pump to pump the first fluid to the mixing chamber; a fluid line in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and at least one of the plurality of late lean fuel injectors so fluid from the mixing chamber is injected into the combustor at late lean fuel injectors. The wash system is operated with the gas turbine engine off-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Justin Todd Eggart, Colin Noel Stevens, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 11365677
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant that includes a first gas turbine engine including a first turbine section, a second gas turbine engine including a second turbine section having an aft outlet configured to discharge an exhaust gas stream, an emissions reduction system configured to receive the exhaust gas stream discharged from the second gas turbine engine, and configured to remove oxides of nitrogen from the exhaust gas stream, and an interstage extraction system communicatively coupled with the first turbine section. The interstage extraction system is configured to selectively extract turbine extraction air from the first turbine section for providing heat to the emissions reduction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Klosinski, Sanji Ekanayake, Alston Ilford Scipio, George Vargese Mathai
  • Publication number: 20210301686
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant that includes a first gas turbine engine including a first turbine section, a second gas turbine engine including a second turbine section having an aft outlet configured to discharge an exhaust gas stream, an emissions reduction system configured to receive the exhaust gas stream discharged from the second gas turbine engine, and configured to remove oxides of nitrogen from the exhaust gas stream, and an interstage extraction system communicatively coupled with the first turbine section. The interstage extraction system is configured to selectively extract turbine extraction air from the first turbine section for providing heat to the emissions reduction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph Klosinski, Sanji Ekanayake, Alston Ilford Scipio, George Vargese Mathai
  • Patent number: 10975774
    Abstract: The present application provides a gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine may include a compressor, a compressor wash system in communication with the compressor, a condensate or boiler feed water system in communication with the compressor, and a dosing system in communication with the condensate or boiler feed water system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Paul Robert Fernandez, Rebecca Evelyn Hefner, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 10626755
    Abstract: A system includes a controller communicatively coupled to a compressor. The controller is configured to sense an exhaust temperature of a gas turbine system fluidly coupled to the compressor and derive a setpoint based on the sensed exhaust temperature. The controller is also configured to actuate an inlet bleed heat valve based on the derived setpoint and an ambient temperature. The inlet bleed heat valve directs a compressor fluid from the compressor into a fluid intake system fluidly coupled to the compressor upstream of the compressor and configured to intake a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph Philip Klosinski, Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake, Julio Enrique Mestroni, George Vargese Mathai, Michael Anthony Cocca
  • Patent number: 10619568
    Abstract: A system includes a controller configured to control a heated flow discharged from an outlet of a mixing chamber to an inlet control system to control a temperature of an intake flow through a compressor inlet of a compressor of a gas turbine system. The controller is configured to control a turbine extraction gas (TEG) flow to the mixing chamber. The controller is configured to control at least one of a pressurized flow of the compressor to the mixing chamber and a steam flow to the mixing chamber. The TEG flow is extracted through a turbine casing. The heated flow includes the TEG flow and the at least one of the pressurized flow and the steam flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: General Elecric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Jason Brian Shaffer, Joseph Philip Klosinski, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 10598094
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a compressor configured to compress air received at an intake portion to form a compressed airflow that exits into an outlet portion. A combustor is operably connected with the compressor, and receives the compressed airflow. A turbine is operably connected with the combustor, and receives the combustion gas flow. The turbine has a plurality of wheels and a plurality of buckets. The turbine receives compressor bleed off air to cool the wheels and buckets. A cooling system is operatively connected to the turbine. The cooling system includes a plurality of heat pipes located axially upstream of at least one of the wheels. The heat pipes are operatively connected to a bearing cooler system. The heat pipes and the bearing cooler system are configured to transfer heat from the compressor bleed off air to one or more heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sanji Ekanayake, Thomas Edward Wickert, Alston Ilford Scipio
  • Patent number: 10584615
    Abstract: A power plant includes an exhaust duct that receives an exhaust gas from an outlet of the turbine outlet and an ejector having a primary inlet fluidly coupled to a compressor extraction port. The ejector receives a stream of compressed air from the compressor via the compressor extraction port. The power plant further includes a static mixer having a primary inlet fluidly coupled to a turbine extraction port, a secondary inlet fluidly coupled to an outlet of the ejector and an outlet that is in fluid communication with the exhaust duct. A stream of combustion gas flows from a hot gas path of the turbine and into the inlet of the static mixer via the turbine extraction port. The static mixer receives a stream of cooled compressed air from the ejector to cool the stream of combustion gas upstream from the exhaust duct. The cooled combustion gas mixes with the exhaust gas within the exhaust duct to provide a heated exhaust gas mixture to a heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake, Joseph Philip Klosinski, George Vargese Mathai
  • Patent number: 10577982
    Abstract: A power plant includes a gas turbine including a turbine extraction port that is in fluid communication with a hot gas path of the turbine and an exhaust duct that receives exhaust gas from the turbine outlet. The power plant further includes a first gas cooler having a primary inlet fluidly coupled to the turbine extraction port, a secondary inlet fluidly coupled to a coolant supply system and an outlet in fluid communication with the exhaust duct. The power plant further includes a gas distribution manifold that is disposed downstream from the outlet of the first gas cooler and which receives a portion of the combustion gas or a portion of the cooled combustion gas and distributes the portion of the combustion gas or a portion of the cooled combustion to one or more secondary operations of the power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake, Joseph Philip Klosinski
  • Patent number: 10544739
    Abstract: A gas turbine system includes a compressor protection subsystem; a hibernation mode subsystem; and a control subsystem that controls the compressor subsystem and the hibernation subsystem. At partial loads on the turbine system, the compressor protection subsystem maintains an air flow through a compressor at an airflow coefficient for the partial load above a minimum flow rate coefficient where aeromechanical stresses occur in the compressor. The air fuel ratio in a combustor is maintained where exhaust gas emission components from the turbine are maintained below a predetermined component emission level while operating at partial loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Michael Anthony Cocca, Thomas John Freeman, Michael Wesley Yarnold, Ryan Eric Obenhoff, Sanji Ekanayake, Douglas Corbin Warwick, Joseph Philip Klosinski
  • Patent number: 10436073
    Abstract: A power plant includes an exhaust duct downstream from an outlet of a turbine which receives exhaust gas from the turbine outlet, a first ejector having a primary inlet that is fluidly coupled to a turbine extraction port and an outlet that is in fluid communication with the exhaust duct. The power plant further includes a second ejector having a primary inlet fluidly coupled to the compressor extraction port, a suction inlet in fluid communication with an air supply and an outlet in fluid communication with a suction inlet of the first ejector. The first ejector cools the stream of combustion gas via compressed air extracted from the compressor and cooled via the second ejector. The cooled combustion gas mixes with the exhaust gas within the exhaust duct to provide a heated exhaust gas mixture downstream from the exhaust duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake, Douglas Corbin Warwick, Joseph Philip Klosinski
  • Patent number: 10415432
    Abstract: A power plant includes a gas turbine including a turbine extraction port that is in fluid communication with a hot gas path of the turbine and an exhaust duct that receives exhaust gas from the turbine outlet. The power plant further includes a first gas cooler having a primary inlet fluidly coupled to the turbine extraction port, a secondary inlet fluidly coupled to a coolant supply system and an outlet in fluid communication with the exhaust duct. The first gas cooler provides a cooled combustion gas to the exhaust duct which mixes with the exhaust gas to provide an exhaust gas mixture to a heat exchanger downstream from the exhaust duct. The power plant further includes a fuel heater in fluid communication with the outlet of the first gas cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake, Joseph Philip Klosinski, Paul Robert Fernandez, David Clayton Poole
  • Patent number: 10415476
    Abstract: A power plant includes a first gas turbine and a second gas turbine. The first gas turbine includes a turbine extraction port that is in fluid communication with a hot gas path of the turbine and an exhaust duct that receives exhaust gas from the turbine outlet. The power plant further includes a first gas cooler having a primary inlet fluidly coupled to the turbine extraction port, a secondary inlet fluidly coupled to a coolant supply system and an outlet in fluid communication with the exhaust duct. The first gas cooler provides a cooled combustion gas to the exhaust duct which mixes with the exhaust gas to provide an exhaust gas mixture to a first heat exchanger downstream from the exhaust duct. At least one of a compressor and a turbine of the second gas turbine are in fluid communication with the outlet of the first gas cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph Philip Klosinski, Alston Ilford Scipio, Sanji Ekanayake, Paul Robert Fernandez
  • Patent number: 10344677
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preheating fuel in a gas turbine engine are provided. In one embodiment, a system may include a gas turbine engine, a fuel line in fluid communication with the gas turbine engine, a gas turbine compartment disposed about the gas turbine engine, and a first conduit in fluid communication with the gas turbine compartment. The first conduit may include ventilation discharge air from the gas turbine compartment. The system also may include a first heat exchanger in communication with the fuel line and the first conduit. The first heat exchanger may be configured to exchange heat between the fuel and the ventilation discharge air from the gas turbine compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sanji Ekanayake, Alston Ilford Scipio, Joseph Klosinski, William Theadore Fisher