Patents by Inventor Donald Meskers, JR.

Donald Meskers, JR. 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: 10577553
    Abstract: Provided are water-based fuel additive compositions that, when combusted with a fuel containing vanadium in a gas turbine, inhibit vanadium hot corrosion in the gas turbine. The water-based fuel additive compositions include at least one rare earth element compound or alkaline earth element compound that retards vanadium corrosion resulting from combustion of vanadium rich fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Kalaga, Donald Meskers, Jr., Sundar Amancherla
  • Patent number: 10557099
    Abstract: Provided are oil-based fuel additive compositions that, when combusted with a fuel containing vanadium in a gas turbine, inhibit vanadium hot corrosion in the gas turbine. The oil-based fuel additive compositions include at least one rare earth element compound or alkaline earth element compound that retards vanadium corrosion resulting from combustion of vanadium rich fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Kalaga, Donald Meskers, Jr., Sundar Amancherla
  • Publication number: 20190048278
    Abstract: Provided are oil-based fuel additive compositions that, when combusted with a fuel containing vanadium in a gas turbine, inhibit vanadium hot corrosion in the gas turbine. The oil-based fuel additive compositions include at least one rare earth element compound or alkaline earth element compound that retards vanadium corrosion resulting from combustion of vanadium rich fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Kalaga, Donald Meskers, JR., Sundar Amancherla
  • Publication number: 20190048279
    Abstract: Provided are water-based fuel additive compositions that, when combusted with a fuel containing vanadium in a gas turbine, inhibit vanadium hot corrosion in the gas turbine. The water-based fuel additive compositions include at least one rare earth element compound or alkaline earth element compound that retards vanadium corrosion resulting from combustion of vanadium rich fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Kalaga, Donald Meskers, JR., Sundar Amancherla
  • Patent number: 9873535
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a composition and method of using non-molybdate corrosion inhibitors in sterilizing and pasteurizing applications. The composition is a blend of one or more components including corrosion inhibitors, surfactants, hydrotropes, polymer dispersants, pH adjusting agents and water. The composition may include two or more of a) alkyl-dicarboxylic acid; b) phosphono-carboxylic acid; c) tri(amino-carboxylic acid); d) anionic polymer dispersant; e) non-ionic surfactant; f) inorganic phosphate; g) phosphonotricarboxylic acid; and h) hydrotrope. Specifically, the composition may comprise sebacic acid, hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid, and 6,6?,6?-(1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triyltriimino)tris-hexanoic acid. Optionally, the composition can further comprise a co-polymer of acrylic acid and allyl-2-hydroxy-propyl-sulfonate ether (AA/AHPSE), 2-phosphono-1,2,4-butane-tricarboxylic acid, sodium phosphate monobasic or phosphoric acid, ?-decyl-?-hydroxy-poly(oxy-1,2ethanediyl), and sodium cumenesulfonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Genral Electric Company
    Inventors: Zhendong Liu, Donald A. Meskers, Jr., Peter Scheidel
  • Patent number: 8728324
    Abstract: Water soluble or water dispersible terpolymers are employed in high pressure steam generating systems to control deposit formation and contaminant transport in the aqueous medium in such systems. The terpolymer may comprise repeat units formed from acrylic acid, allylalkoxylated ethers, and allylhydroxylated alkyl ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald A. Meskers, Jr., Trevor James Dale, Bernard Joseph Neidert, Rosa Crovetto, Karen Annette Welton
  • Publication number: 20130341282
    Abstract: Water soluble or water dispersible terpolymers are employed in high pressure steam generating systems to control deposit formation and contaminant transport in the aqueous medium in such systems. The terpolymer may comprise repeat units formed from acrylic acid, allylalkoxylated ethers, and allylhydroxylated alkyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald A. Meskers, JR., Trevor James Dale, Bernard Joseph Neidert, Rosa Crovetto, Karen Annette Welton
  • Publication number: 20130213282
    Abstract: A method of operating a thermal installation other than a gas turbine and use of such a method for inhibiting vanadic corrosion is disclosed herein. Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of operating a thermal installation comprising a combustion chamber fed with a fuel contaminated with vanadium, with sulfur and possibly with sodium. The combustion chamber is also fed with boron and with magnesium, in quantities such that the magnesium molar ratio m=MgO/V2O5 and the boron molar ratio b=B2O3/V2O5 satisfy the conditions (i) m?2+b; (ii) m?3+2b; (iii) b?0.5 and (iv) b?2, so that the combustion products comprise magnesium vanadate, mixed magnesium boron oxide and possibly sodium borate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Donald A Meskers, JR., Michel Moliere, JeanLuc Buet
  • Patent number: 6348440
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for controlling corrosion of high strength steels in the presence of a cleaning solution for removing iron oxide scale from metal surfaces. A benzotriazole or benzimidazole compound is added to a combination of ethoxylated mercaptan and/or oxidized ethoxylated mercaptan and 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid. The composition is added to an aqueous system, such as a steam generating system, to remove scale from the metal surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: BetzDearborn Inc.
    Inventors: Donald A. Meskers, Jr., Roger John Arthur Tippett