Patents by Inventor Sulabh K. Dhanuka

Sulabh K. Dhanuka 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: 20170184021
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine system having a turbine combustor, a turbine driven by combustion products from the turbine combustor, and an exhaust gas compressor driven by the turbine. The exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and supply an exhaust gas to the turbine combustor. The gas turbine system also has an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system. The EGR system is configured to recirculate the exhaust gas along an exhaust recirculation path from the turbine to the exhaust gas compressor. The system further includes a main oxidant compression system having one or more oxidant compressors. The one or more oxidant compressors are separate from the exhaust gas compressor, and the one or more oxidant compressors are configured to supply all compressed oxidant utilized by the turbine combustor in generating the combustion products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Franklin F. Mittricker, Loren K. Starcher, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Dennis M. O'Dea, Samuel D. Draper, Christian M. Hansen, Todd Denman, James A. West
  • Patent number: 9689309
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for generating power in combined low emission turbine systems and capturing and recovering carbon dioxide from the exhaust. In one or more embodiments, the exhaust from multiple turbine systems is combined, cooled, compressed, and separated to yield a carbon dioxide-containing effluent stream and a nitrogen-containing product stream. Portions of the recycled exhaust streams and the product streams may be used as diluents to regulate combustion in each combustor of the turbine systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Russell H. Oelfke, Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Dennis M. O'Dea, Robert D. Denton, O. Angus Sites, Franklin F. Mittricker
  • Patent number: 9599070
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine system having a turbine combustor, a turbine driven by combustion products from the turbine combustor, and an exhaust gas compressor driven by the turbine. The exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and supply an exhaust gas to the turbine combustor. The gas turbine system also has an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system. The EGR system is configured to recirculate the exhaust gas along an exhaust recirculation path from the turbine to the exhaust gas compressor. The system further includes a main oxidant compression system having one or more oxidant compressors. The one or more oxidant compressors are separate from the exhaust gas compressor, and the one or more oxidant compressors are configured to supply all compressed oxidant utilized by the turbine combustor in generating the combustion products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: General Electric Company, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Franklin F. Mittricker, Loren K. Starcher, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Dennis M. O'Dea, Samuel D. Draper, Christian M. Hansen, Todd Denman, James A. West
  • Patent number: 9599021
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for controlling the oxidant feed in low emission turbine systems to maintain stoichiometric or substantially stoichiometric combustion conditions. In one or more embodiments, such control is achieved by diverting a portion of the recirculating exhaust gas and combining it with the oxidant feed to maintain a constant oxygen level in the combined oxidant-exhaust stream fed to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Franklin F. Mittricker, Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Omar Angus Sites
  • Publication number: 20170058737
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for generating power in low emission turbine systems and separating the exhaust into rich CO2 and lean CO2 streams. In one or more embodiments, the exhaust is separated at an elevated pressure, such as between a high-pressure expansion stage and a low-pressure expansion stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Franklin F. Mittricker, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Richard A. Huntington, Omar Angus Sites, Dennis M. O'Dea, Russell H. Oelfke
  • Patent number: 9353940
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an oxy-fuel type combustion reaction are provided. In one or more embodiments, a combustion system can include at least two mixing zones, where a first mixing zone at least partially mixes oxygen and carbon dioxide to produce a first mixture and a second mixing zone at least partially mixes the first mixture with a fuel to produce a second mixture. The combustion system can also include a combustion zone configured to combust the second mixture to produce a combustion product. In one or more embodiments, the first mixture can have a spatially varied ratio of oxygen-to-carbon dioxide configured to generate a hot zone in the combustion zone to increase flame stability in the combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Franklin F. Mittricker, Dennis M. O'Dea, Harry W. Deckman, Chad C. Rasmussen, David R. Noble, Jerry M. Seitzman, Timothy C. Lieuwen, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Richard Huntington
  • Publication number: 20160010493
    Abstract: A system includes plurality of combustors and a distributed flow measurement system coupled to the plurality of combustors. Each combustor of the plurality of combustors includes one or more oxidant passages and one or more fuel passages. The distributed flow measurement system is configured to measure an oxidant flow rate for a respective oxidant passage of the one or more oxidant passages of the respective combustor based at least in part on an oxidant pressure drop along the respective oxidant passage, and the distributed flow measurement system is configured to measure a fuel flow rate for a respective fuel passage of the one or more fuel passages of the respective combustor based at least in part on a fuel pressure drop along the respective fuel passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Dennis M. O'Dea, Karl Dean Minto, Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Franklin F. Mittricker
  • Publication number: 20150308293
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine engine configured to combust an oxidant and a fuel to generate an exhaust gas, a catalyst bed configured to treat a portion of the exhaust gas from the gas turbine engine to generate a treated exhaust gas, a differential temperature monitor configured to monitor a differential temperature between a first temperature of the portion of exhaust gas upstream of the catalyst bed and a second temperature of the treated exhaust gas downstream of the catalyst bed, and an oxidant-to-fuel ratio system configured to adjust a parameter to maintain an efficacy of the catalyst bed based at least in part on the differential temperature in order to maintain a target equivalence ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka
  • Publication number: 20150240715
    Abstract: The present techniques are directed to a system and method for generating power and recovering methane from methane hydrates. The system includes a low emissions power plant configured to generate power, wherein an exhaust gas from the low emissions power plant provides a gas mixture including nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The system also includes a methane recovery system configured to recover methane from methane hydrates by injecting the nitrogen and the carbon dioxide from the gas mixture into the methane hydrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Michael W. Eaton, Richard A. Huntington
  • Publication number: 20140250945
    Abstract: The present techniques are directed to a system and method for recovering carbon dioxide (CO2). The method includes recovering the CO2 from a gas mixture including the CO2 via a CO2 separation system. The CO2 separation system includes a rotating freezer/melter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Robert D. Denton, Sulabh K. Dhanuka
  • Publication number: 20140250908
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the composition of a combustion exhaust gas are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: ExxonMobil Upsteam Research Company, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Huntington, Chad C. Rasmussen, Franklin F. Mittricker, Tim Lieuwen, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Himansh Gupta, Moses K. Minta, Loren K. Starcher
  • Publication number: 20140245779
    Abstract: Methods and system are provided for regasifying liquefied natural gas (LNG). An exemplary method disclosed includes flowing at least a portion of an LNG stream through an air separation unit (ASU) to form at least a portion of a natural gas (NG) stream. Heat is removed from an airflow in the ASU to separate an oxygen stream from the airflow. The oxygen stream and a fuel stream are combusted in a power plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Lalit K. Bohra, O. Angus Sites, Sulabh K. Dhanuka
  • Publication number: 20140230446
    Abstract: The present techniques are directed to a system and methods for operating a gas turbine system. An exemplary gas turbine system includes an oxidant system, a fuel system, and a control system. A combustor is adapted to receive and combust an oxidant from the oxidant system and a fuel from the fuel system to produce an exhaust gas. A catalyst unit including an oxidation catalyst that includes an oxygen storage component is configured to reduce the concentration of oxygen in the exhaust gas to form a low oxygen content product gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Tilman W. Beutel, Sulabh K. Dhanuka
  • Publication number: 20140150445
    Abstract: A system is provided with a turbine combustor having a first diffusion fuel nozzle, wherein the first diffusion fuel nozzle is configured to produce a diffusion flame. The system includes a turbine driven by combustion products from the diffusion flame in the turbine combustor. The system also includes an exhaust gas compressor, wherein the exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and route an exhaust gas from the turbine to the turbine combustor along an exhaust recirculation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicants: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Ilya Aleksandrovich Slobodyanskiy
  • Publication number: 20140123620
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine system having a turbine combustor, a turbine driven by combustion products from the turbine combustor, and an exhaust gas compressor driven by the turbine. The exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and supply an exhaust gas to the turbine combustor. The gas turbine system also has an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system. The EGR system is configured to recirculate the exhaust gas along an exhaust recirculation path from the turbine to the exhaust gas compressor. The system further includes a main oxidant compression system having one or more oxidant compressors. The one or more oxidant compressors are separate from the exhaust gas compressor, and the one or more oxidant compressors are configured to supply all compressed oxidant utilized by the turbine combustor in generating the combustion products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Franklin F. Mittricker, Loren K. Starcher, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Dennis M. O'Dea, Samuel D. Draper, Christian M. Hansen, Todd Denman, James A. West
  • Publication number: 20140123668
    Abstract: A system is provided with a turbine combustor having a first diffusion fuel nozzle, wherein the first diffusion fuel nozzle has first and second passages that separately inject respective first and second flows into a chamber of the turbine combustor to produce a diffusion flame. The first flow includes a first fuel and a first diluent, and the second flow includes a first oxidant. The system includes a turbine driven by combustion products from the diffusion flame in the turbine combustor. The system also includes an exhaust gas compressor, wherein the exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and route an exhaust gas from the turbine to the turbine combustor along an exhaust recirculation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Ilya Aleksandrovich Slobodyanskiy
  • Publication number: 20140123669
    Abstract: A system is provided with a turbine combustor having a first diffusion fuel nozzle, wherein the first diffusion fuel nozzle has first and second passages that separately inject respective first and second flows into a chamber of the turbine combustor to produce a diffusion flame. The first flow includes a first fuel, and the second flow includes a first oxidant and a first diluent. The system includes a turbine driven by combustion products from the diffusion flame in the turbine combustor. The system also includes an exhaust gas compressor, wherein the exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and route an exhaust gas from the turbine to the turbine combustor along an exhaust recirculation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Ilya Aleksandrovich Slobodyanskiy
  • Publication number: 20140123672
    Abstract: A system is provided with a turbine combustor having a first diffusion fuel nozzle, wherein the first diffusion fuel nozzle is configured to produce a diffusion flame. The system includes a turbine driven by combustion products from the diffusion flame in the turbine combustor. The system also includes an exhaust gas compressor, wherein the exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and route an exhaust gas from the turbine to the turbine combustor along an exhaust recirculation path. In addition, the system includes a first catalyst unit disposed along the exhaust recirculation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Ilya Aleksandrovich Slobodyanskiy
  • Publication number: 20140083109
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for generating power in combined low emission turbine systems and capturing and recovering carbon dioxide from the exhaust. In one or more embodiments, the exhaust from multiple turbine systems is combined, cooled, compressed, and separated to yield a carbon dioxide-containing effluent stream and a nitrogen-containing product stream. Portions of the recycled exhaust streams and the product streams may be used as diluents to regulate combustion in each combustor of the turbine systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Russell H. Oelfke, Richard A. Huntington, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Dennis M. O'Dea, Robert D. Denton, Omar Angus Sites, Franklin F. Mittricker
  • Publication number: 20140013766
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for generating power in low emission turbine systems and separating the exhaust into rich CO2 and lean CO2 streams. In one or more embodiments, the exhaust is separated at an elevated pressure, such as between a high-pressure expansion stage and a low-pressure expansion stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Franklin F. Mittricker, Sulabh K. Dhanuka, Richard A. Huntington, Omar Angus Sites, Dennis M. O'Dea, Russell H. Oelfke