Patents Assigned to Aerocore Technologies LLC
  • Publication number: 20250116205
    Abstract: Turbines and associated equipment are normally cleaned via water or chemical pressure washing via a mist, spray systems. However, these systems fail to reach deep across the gas path to remove fouling materials. Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and existing chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces, to contact, scrub, carry, and remove fouling away from equipment to restore performance. Various embodiments pertain to spout assemblies for providing foam to the compressor of commercial fan engines, and in yet other embodiments to engines receiving air from a long inlet duct, especially those having a serpentine inlet ducts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Publication number: 20240410296
    Abstract: Turbines and associated equipment are normally cleaned via water or chemical pressure washing via a mist, spray systems. However, these systems fail to reach deep across the gas path to remove fouling materials. Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and exiting chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces. In one embodiment, the method can include: forming a first foam with a liquid cleaning agent and pressurized gas; flowing the first foam over a member or matrix and increasing the size of the cells of the first foam to form a second foam; and flowing the second foam through a structure such as a mesh or one or more apertured plates and decreasing the size of the cells of the second foam to form a third foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Patent number: 12065939
    Abstract: Turbines and associated equipment are normally cleaned via water or chemical pressure washing via a mist, spray systems. However, these systems fail to reach deep across the gas path to remove fouling materials. Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and exiting chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces. In one embodiment, the method can include: forming a first foam with a liquid cleaning agent and pressurized gas; flowing the first foam over a member or matrix and increasing the size of the cells of the first foam to form a second foam; and flowing the second foam through a structure such as a mesh or one or more apertured plates and decreasing the size of the cells of the second foam to form a third foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Patent number: 11643946
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and existing chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces, to contact, scrub, carry, and remove fouling away from equipment to restore performance. Various embodiments include operating a gas turbine engine; measuring the performance of the engine during operation; determining that the engine should be foam washed based on the measurements; mixing pressurized gas with pressurized liquid and creating a supply of foam; and streaming the supply of foam into the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Publication number: 20230003139
    Abstract: Turbines and associated equipment are normally cleaned via water or chemical pressure washing via a mist, spray systems. However, these systems fail to reach deep across the gas path to remove fouling materials. Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and exiting chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces to contact, scrub, carry, and remove fouling away from equipment to restore performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Publication number: 20210254498
    Abstract: Turbines and associated equipment are normally cleaned via water or chemical pressure washing via a mist, spray systems. However, these systems fail to reach deep across the gas path to remove fouling materials. Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and existing chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces, to contact, scrub, carry, and remove fouling away from equipment to restore performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Publication number: 20200131928
    Abstract: Turbines and associated equipment are normally cleaned via water or chemical pressure washing via a mist, spray systems. However, these systems fail to reach deep across the gas path to remove fouling materials. Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and existing chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces, to contact, scrub, carry, and remove fouling away from equipment to restore performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: AeroCore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz
  • Patent number: 10364699
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein pertain to apparatus and methods that utilize the water and existing chemicals to generate a foam. The foam can be introduced at that gas-path entrance of the equipment, where it contacts the stages and internal surfaces, to contact, scrub, carry, and remove fouling away from equipment to restore performance. Some embodiments include mixing gas with liquid to create a supply of foam, streaming the foam into a gas turbine engine installed on an airplane, rotating the spools of the engine while streaming, and re-rotating the spools of the engine after a spool has stopped. In yet other embodiments there is a method that includes streaming the foam into an engine installed on an airplane, quantifying an improvement to a family of engines achievable by foam washing, operating a specific engine, determining that the specific engine should be washed, and scheduling a foam washing of the specific engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Aerocore Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Jorge Ivan Saenz