Patents by Inventor Clifford Lucas

Clifford Lucas 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).

  • Utilization of bogdown of single-shaft gas turbines to minimize relief flows in baseload LNG plants
    Publication number: 20050022552
    Abstract: Apparatus for regulating a driver, such as a single-shaft gas turbine, driving a gas compressor, such as a refrigerant compressor in a baseload LNG plant. The compressor has a gas inlet and a gas outlet and includes: a recycle pressure relief device in fluid communication with the gas outlet, the recycle pressure relief device adapted to receive a stream of a compressed gas having a discharge pressure from the gas outlet; and a conduit in fluid communication with the gas inlet, whereby the gas inlet receives at least a portion of the stream of the compressed gas transmitted to the conduit from the recycle pressure relief device when the discharge pressure reaches a designated pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Clifford Lucas, Philip Brochu, William Rooney