Patents Assigned to CALPINE CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 11505474
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed which significantly improves the control of conductivity, concentration of free residual chlorine, basin level, and pH in forced-draft open recirculating cooling towers, with a basin capacity of 750,000 gallons of water or more. Conductivity, free residual chlorine, basin level, and pH are each controlled by a programmable PID controller operating in a sampled-data environment where the set point is a continuously updated rate-of-change set value for conductivity, free residual chlorine, basin level, and pH based on a near-time prior manipulated value. Programmable PID controller outputs to each control element a manipulated value to bring the rate-of-change of the process value equal to the rate-of-change of the set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Calpine Corporation
    Inventor: Ely Bencomo Trujillo
  • Patent number: 9822664
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes an exhaust cylinder comprising an inner circumferential slot, a diffuser shell disposed at least substantially concentrically within the exhaust cylinder and one or more baffle plates extending between the exhaust cylinder and the diffuser shell, a proximal end of each of the one or more baffle plates being fixed to the diffuser shell by one or more holding rings and a distal end of each of the one or more baffle plates being slidingly received within the inner circumferential slot of the exhaust cylinder. The one or more holding rings are secured to the diffuser shell, at one or more holding segments disposed along an inner diameter of the diffuser shell, via a plurality of radially inserted fastening members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: CALPINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ivan Kush, Larry Nolan Henson
  • Patent number: 8652428
    Abstract: A system and method for removing contaminants from a gas stream is provided. The method can include the steps of reacting the gas stream with ozone to form solid contaminant particles and separating the solid contaminant particles from the gas stream. The solid contaminant particles can he separated from the gas stream using an adsorption material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Calpine Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Benn, Allen Sonneville, John Farison, John Avery, Tom Bahning, Bruce Carlsen
  • Patent number: 8409535
    Abstract: A system and method for removing contaminants from a gas stream is provided. The method can include the steps of reacting the gas stream with ozone to form solid contaminant particles and separating the solid contaminant particles from the gas stream. The solid contaminant particles can be separated from the gas stream using an adsorption material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Calpine Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Benn, Allen Sonneville, John Farison, John Avery, Tom Bahning, Bruce Carlsen
  • Publication number: 20130058851
    Abstract: A system and method for removing contaminants from a gas stream is provided. The method can include the steps of reacting the gas stream with ozone to form solid contaminant particles and separating the solid contaminant particles from the gas stream. The solid contaminant particles can he separated from the gas stream using an adsorption material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Calpine Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Benn, Allen Sonneville, John Farison, John Avery, Tom Bahning, Bruce Carlsen
  • Publication number: 20120183461
    Abstract: A system and method for removing contaminants from a gas stream is provided. The method can include the steps of reacting the gas stream with ozone to form solid contaminant particles and separating the solid contaminant particles from the gas stream. The solid contaminant particles can be separated from the gas stream using an adsorption material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: CALPINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Benn, Allen Sonneville, John Farison, John Avery, Tom Bahning, Bruce Carlsen