Patents Assigned to Quadrise Limited
  • Emulsion fuels and their use in gas turbines
    Patent number: 6663680
    Abstract: A gas turbine is driven by combustion of a fuel which is a hydrocarbon oil-in-water emulsion. Successful operation is achieved with minimized corrosion of turbine blades by keeping the Na+ content of the emulsion to less than 1 ppm. Deionized water is generally to be used in making up the emulsion. Heavy oils can be used because their conversion to oil-in-water emulsion form makes them suited to the pre-atomization requirements of gas turbine combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Quadrise Limited
    Inventors: Peter Jeremy Dodd, Alan Stockwell