Patents by Inventor Dominikus Buecker

Dominikus Buecker 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).

  • Patent number: 8006478
    Abstract: A method for operating a power plant (2), which includes at least one compressor (3), at least one turbine (4), and a burner arrangement (5), involves, to enhance the power plant (2), feeding a combustion exhaust gas from a pre-burner (8) of the burner arrangement (5) to an oxygen-removal device (11), which removes gas of the oxygen from the combustion exhaust gas in which it is contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Dominikus Buecker, Timothy Griffin, Armin Schimkat
  • Publication number: 20100071380
    Abstract: A method for operating a power plant (2), which includes at least one compressor (3), at least one turbine (4), and a burner arrangement (5), involves, to enhance the power plant (2), feeding a combustion exhaust gas from a pre-burner (8) of the burner arrangement (5) to an oxygen-removal device (11), which removes gas of the oxygen from the combustion exhaust gas in which it is contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Dominikus Buecker, Timothy Griffin, Armin Schimkat
  • Patent number: 7669403
    Abstract: A method for operating a power plant (2), which includes at least one compressor (3), at least one turbine (4), and a burner arrangement (5), involves, to enhance the power plant (2), feeding a combustion exhaust gas from a pre-burner (8) of the burner arrangement (5) to an oxygen-removal device (11), which removes gas of the oxygen from the combustion exhaust gas in which it is contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Dominikus Buecker, Timothy Griffin, Armin Schimkat
  • Patent number: 7503178
    Abstract: A thermal power plant with sequential combustion and reduced CO2 emissions is disclosed, which includes the following components, which are connected in series via in each case at least one flow passage (S): a combustion feed air compressor unit, a first combustion chamber, a high-pressure turbine stage, a second combustion chamber and a low-pressure turbine stage. The second combustion chamber and/or the low-pressure turbine stage can be supplied with a cooling gas stream for cooling purposes. A method for operating a thermal power plant of this type is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Dominikus Bücker, Timothy Griffin, Dieter Winkler
  • Publication number: 20080010967
    Abstract: In a method for generating energy in an energy generating installation (10) having a gas turbine (12), in a first step, an oxygen-containing gas is compressed in a compressor (13, 14) of the gas turbine (12), in a second step the compressed gas is supplied, with the addition of fuel, for combustion in a combustion chamber (15), in a third step the hot flue gas from the combustion chamber (15) is expanded in a turbine (16) of the gas turbine (12) so as to perform work, and, in a fourth step, a branched-off part stream of the expanded flue gas is recirculated into a part of the gas turbine (12) lying upstream of the combustion chamber (15) and is compressed. A reduction in the CO2 emission, along with minimal losses of efficiency, is achieved in that carbon dioxide (CO2) is separated from the circulating gas in a CO2 separator (19), and in that measures are taken to compensate for the efficiency losses in the gas turbine cyclic process which are associated with the CO2 separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy Griffin, Dominikus Buecker, David Abbott
  • Publication number: 20060064985
    Abstract: A method for operating a power plant (2), which includes at least one compressor (3), at least one turbine (4), and a burner arrangement (5), involves, to enhance the power plant (2), feeding a combustion exhaust gas from a pre-burner (8) of the burner arrangement (5) to an oxygen-removal device (11), which removes gas of the oxygen from the combustion exhaust gas in which it is contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Dominikus Buecker, Timothy Griffin, Armin Schimkat