Patents by Inventor J. Easel Roberts

J. Easel Roberts 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).

  • DISCHARGE ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR ENHANCEMENT OF AN ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR
    Publication number: 20090139406
    Abstract: A method for designing a discharge electrode of an electrostatic precipitator, includes: selecting a base design for the discharge electrode and the electrostatic precipitator; loading the base design into a computational tool for modeling collection efficiency, ?, of the electrostatic precipitator as a function of at least one of a charging volume, Vc, a charging electric field, Ec, and an electric field for charged particle, Eacc; modeling the collection efficiency, ?; and adjusting at least one aspect of the base design to improve the collection efficiency, ?, according to the modeling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Warren Taylor, Abdelkrim Younsi, Yingneng Zhou, David Fulton Johnston, Terry Lewis Farmer, J. Easel Roberts