Patents Assigned to AMEC FOSTER WHEELER NORTH AMERICA CORP.
  • Patent number: 9644536
    Abstract: An inlet air filter arrangement for a gas turbine or a combustion turbine includes a housing with an inlet side and an outlet side separated by a planar tubesheet including multiple tubesheet openings. Each multiple cylindrical filter cartridge includes a symmetry axis, an open end, and a closed end. A connection assembly for each of the multiple cylindrical filter cartridges seals the open end of the cylindrical filter cartridge to the tubesheet around one of the tubesheet openings. The connection assembly includes a mainly cylindrical guide sleeve including a symmetry axis, a shell with a cylindrical external surface, an inner end attached around the tubesheet opening and an outer end at the inlet side of the housing. The shell is provided with at least two slots extending mainly helically from the outer end towards the inner end. A collar attaches to the open end of the cylindrical filter cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: AMEC FOSTER WHEELER NORTH AMERICA CORP.
    Inventor: David Brunner
  • Patent number: 9333476
    Abstract: A grid nozzle assembly for a fluidized bed reactor that includes a horizontally extending bottom plate, a gas plenum chamber below the bottom plate, and vertical gas pipes having a top end and extending from the gas plenum chamber upwards across the bottom plate. The assembly includes a nozzle head with a gas channel that injects fluidizing gas from one of the vertical gas pipes to the reaction chamber. A tube sleeve is adapted to be fixed by welding around the top end of the vertical gas pipe. The nozzle head and the tube sleeve have a knob and groove portion that form a twist-lock enabling quick connecting and disconnecting of the nozzle head and the tube sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: AMEC FOSTER WHEELER NORTH AMERICA CORP.
    Inventors: Ron Campanella, Tanveer Khan, Patrick Gargone, Robert Musgrove
  • Publication number: 20160016136
    Abstract: A grid nozzle assembly for a fluidized bed reactor, a fluidized bed reactor with a grid nozzle assembly, a method of mounting a grid nozzle assembly as a replacement in a fluidized bed reactor, and a method of replacing a grid nozzle assembly in a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes a horizontally extending bottom plate, a gas plenum chamber below the bottom plate, and vertical gas pipes having a top end and extending from the gas plenum chamber upwards across the bottom plate. The nozzle assembly includes a nozzle head with a gas channel for injecting fluidizing gas from one of the vertical gas pipes to the reaction chamber and a tube sleeve adapted to be firmly fixed by welding around the top end of the vertical gas pipe. The nozzle head and the tube sleeve form a twist-lock enabling quick connecting and disconnecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: AMEC FOSTER WHEELER NORTH AMERICA CORP.
    Inventors: Ron Campanella, Tanveer Khan, Patrick Gargone, Robert Musgrove
  • Patent number: 9221002
    Abstract: A pulse cleaning filter system has a housing with an inlet side and an outlet side separated by a planar tubesheet. The housing includes multiple tubesheet openings forming multiple rows. Multiple cylindrical filter cartridges have an open end sealed around one of the tubesheet openings and a closed end at the inlet side of the housing. A filter cleaning system includes a compressed gas header extending perpendicular to a normal of the tubesheet, multiple compressed gas outlet stub pipes extending from the header, right angle pulse valves connecting each of the stub pipes to a pulse manifold pipe including a first straight portion, a ninety degree bend at the outlet side of the housing, and a second straight portion at the outlet side of the housing. A gas pulse nozzle has a main injection axis directed along the central axis of the filter cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: AMEC FOSTER WHEELER NORTH AMERICA CORP.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Shellenberger