Rotating Mixer Patents (Class 48/189.5)
  • Patent number: 10092878
    Abstract: A simple-cycle gas turbine system includes an injection system including a plurality of injection tubes that may inject a fluid into a duct of an exhaust processing system that may process exhaust gas generated by a gas turbine engine. The exhaust processing system includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that may reduce a level of nitrogen oxides (NOx) within the exhaust gas; and a mixing system positioned adjacent to the plurality of injection tubes and within the exhaust processing system. The mixing system includes a mixing module having a plurality of turbulators that may swirl the fluid, or the exhaust gas, or both, in a first swirl direction to encourage turbulent flow along an axis of the exhaust processing system and thereby facilitate mixing between the fluid and the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, Laxmikant Merchant, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
  • Patent number: 9080768
    Abstract: Gasifier preheater fuel and moderator injection apparatus, systems and methods are provided. A preheater distributor ring is securely mounted within the shell dome of a gasification vessel, for the selective discharge of preheat fuel and oxidizer into the vessel during preheating operations, or for the selective discharge of moderating agents into the vessel during normal gasification operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Caleb Wilson, Jennifer Lucia Ramirez, James Scott Kain, Shaoping Shi, Dinh-Cuong Vuong, Edward Pan
  • Patent number: 7552723
    Abstract: A turbine assembly comprising a hub and a plurality of vanes. The hub has a plurality of slits angularly disposed thereon. The plurality of vanes, each comprises an interior edge and an exterior edge. Each of the plurality of vanes has curvature and trespasses the plurality of slits. Exterior edges on the plurality of vanes comprise at least two protrusions. The protrusions fill channels defined in an air intake line of an engine, thereby allowing the hub to spin within the air intake line to create a vortex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Inventor: Hector Ugalde