Patents by Inventor Charles William HANSEN

Charles William HANSEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Enhanced combined cycle
    Patent number: 11334955
    Abstract: A method for operating a combined-cycle electrical power grid by: accepting, from combined cycle power generation participants, combined cycle offers for valid combined cycle configurations, each including identification of power generator type(s) for the configuration and the offers including at least three levels of parameter information pertaining for the valid combined cycle configurations, the three levels including, (a) resource level parameters that describe transition information between the valid combined cycle configurations, (b) configuration level parameters that describe operating parameters for each valid configuration; and (c) component level parameters that describe operating parameters for specific power generator components included in a valid configuration; selecting commitments from the combined cycle offers based upon the resource level parameters, the configuration level parameters and the component level parameters; and controlling dispatch of electricity based upon the commitments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghong Chen, Congcong Wang, Charles William Hansen, Jason Coy Howard, Kimberly Lynn Sperry, Kevin Andrew Vannoy, Chunheng Wang, Fengyu Wang
  • Enhanced Combined Cycle
    Publication number: 20200020049
    Abstract: A method for operating a combined-cycle electrical power grid system including the steps of: accepting, from a plurality of combined cycle power generation participants, combined cycle offers for a set of valid combined cycle configurations, each combined cycle configuration in the set including identification of power generator type(s) for the configuration and the offers including at least three levels of parameter information pertaining for the valid combined cycle configurations, the three levels of parameter information including, (a) resource level parameters that describe transition information between the valid combined cycle configurations, (b) configuration level parameters that describe operating parameters for each valid combined cycle configuration in the set; and (c) component level parameters that describe operating parameters for specific power generator components included in one or more of the valid combined cycle configurations; selecting commitments from the combined cycle offers based upo
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghong CHEN, Congcong WANG, Charles William HANSEN, Jason Coy HOWARD, Gary Waldo ROSENWALD, Kimberly Lynn SPERRY, Kevin Andrew VANNOY, Chunheng WANG, Fengyu WANG