Patents by Inventor Johannes Buss

Johannes Buss 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: 9726377
    Abstract: The burner (1) of a gas turbine includes a duct (2) which houses four vortex generators (3) and a lance (7) that carries one or more nozzles (8) for injecting a fuel within the duct (2). The lance (7) extends from one of the vortex generators (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Andrea Ciani, Johannes Buss
  • Patent number: 9057518
    Abstract: A reheat burner (1) includes a channel (2) with a lance (3) protruding thereinto to inject a fuel over an injection plane (4) perpendicular to a channel longitudinal axis (15). The channel (2) and lance (3) define a vortex generation zone (6) upstream of the injection plane (4) and a mixing zone (9) downstream of the injection plane (4) in the hot gas (G) direction. The mixing zone (9) includes a high speed area (16) with a constant cross section, and a diffusion area (17) with a flared cross section downstream of the high speed area (16) in the hot gas (G) direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Johannes Buss, Andrea Ciani, Adnan Eroglu, Urs Benz, Michael Düsing, Michael Hutapea
  • Patent number: 9046265
    Abstract: A reheat burner includes a channel with a lance projecting thereinto to inject a fuel over an injection plane perpendicular to a channel longitudinal axis. The channel and lance define a vortex generation zone upstream of the injection plane and a mixing zone downstream of the injection plane in the hot gas direction. The mixing zone has a cross section with diverging side walls in the hot gas direction. The diverging side walls define curved surfaces in the hot gas direction having a constant radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Johannes Buss, Andrea Ciani, Urs Benz, Michael Düsing, Michael Hutapea, Adnan Eroglu
  • Patent number: 8943831
    Abstract: The lance of a burner includes a body that defines a first duct with first nozzles for injecting a liquid fuel and a second duct with second nozzles for injecting a gaseous fuel. Outlets of the first nozzles are spaced apart from outlets of the second nozzles. The body includes a third duct with third and fourth nozzles for injecting air. The third nozzles surround an axis of the first nozzles and the fourth nozzles surround an axis of the second nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Johannes Buss, Andrea Ciani
  • Patent number: 8938968
    Abstract: An exemplary burner of a gas turbine includes a tubular body with an inlet for an entrance of an air flow, downstream of inlet vortex generators, and a lance projecting into the tubular body and having a terminal portion extending along a longitudinal axis of the burner which is provided with nozzle groups for injecting fuel into the tubular body. The nozzle groups can lay in an injection plane perpendicular to the axis of the terminal portion of the lance. Downstream of the lance, the burner has an outlet. A ratio x/L between an axial distance x between the side trailing edge of the vortex generator and the injection plane, and the length L of the tubular body can be less than approximately 0.1052.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Johannes Buss, Andrea Ciani, Michael Düsing, Adnan Eroglu
  • Patent number: 8850788
    Abstract: The burner (1) for a gas turbine includes a duct (2) housing a plurality of tetrahedron shaped vortex generators (3) and a lance (4) to inject a fuel to be combusted. Within the duct (2), a plurality of vortex generators (3) are provided with a plurality of holes (9) for injecting cooling air. The cooling holes (9) define passing through areas that are non-uniformly distributed on a top wall (11) of the vortex generators (3). A method for locally cooling a hot gases flow passing through a burner includes non-uniformly injecting cooling air from a vortex generator into the hot gas flow in the duct, which can reduce the occurrence of flashback in the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Andrea Ciani, Johannes Buss, Michael Düsing, Urs Benz
  • Patent number: 8522527
    Abstract: A burner (1) for a gas turbine includes a duct (2) enclosing a plurality of vortex generators (3) and, downstream of them, a lance (5) provided with nozzles (6) for injecting a gaseous fuel. The burner (1) also includes a mixer (7) for diluting and mixing the gaseous fuel with air to form a mixture. The mixer (7) is connected to the nozzles (6) for feeding them with the mixture. A method includes feeding the gaseous fuel in the burner (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Douglas Anthony Pennell, Johannes Buss, Richard Smith
  • Publication number: 20120055162
    Abstract: The lance of a burner includes a body that defines a first duct with first nozzles for injecting a liquid fuel and a second duct with second nozzles for injecting a gaseous fuel. Outlets of the first nozzles are spaced apart from outlets of the second nozzles. The body includes a third duct with third and fourth nozzles for injecting air. The third nozzles surround an axis of the first nozzles and the fourth nozzles surround an axis of the second nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Adnan EROGLU, Johannes Buss, Andrea Ciani
  • Publication number: 20120047901
    Abstract: A reheat burner includes a channel with a lance projecting thereinto to inject a fuel over an injection plane perpendicular to a channel longitudinal axis. The channel and lance define a vortex generation zone upstream of the injection plane and a mixing zone downstream of the injection plane in the hot gas direction. The mixing zone has a cross section with diverging side walls in the hot gas direction. The diverging side walls define curved surfaces in the hot gas direction having a constant radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Johannes BUSS, Andrea Ciani, Urs Benz, Michael Düsing, Michael Hutapea, Adnan Eroglu
  • Publication number: 20120036824
    Abstract: A reheat burner (1) includes a channel (2) with a lance (3) protruding thereinto to inject a fuel over an injection plane (4) perpendicular to a channel longitudinal axis (15). The channel (2) and lance (3) define a vortex generation zone (6) upstream of the injection plane (4) and a mixing zone (9) downstream of the injection plane (4) in the hot gas (G) direction. The mixing zone (9) includes a high speed area (16) with a constant cross section, and a diffusion area (17) with a flared cross section downstream of the high speed area (16) in the hot gas (G) direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Johannes Buss, Andrea Ciani, Adnan Eroglu, Urs Benz, Michael DÜSING, Michael Hutapea
  • Publication number: 20100287940
    Abstract: The burner (1) of a gas turbine includes a duct (2) which houses four vortex generators (3) and a lance (7) that carries one or more nozzles (8) for injecting a fuel within the duct (2). The lance (7) extends from one of the vortex generators (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Andrea Ciani, Johannes Buss
  • Publication number: 20100236246
    Abstract: An exemplary burner of a gas turbine includes a tubular body with an inlet for an entrance of an air flow, downstream of inlet vortex generators, and a lance projecting into the tubular body and having a terminal portion extending along a longitudinal axis of the burner which is provided with nozzle groups for injecting fuel into the tubular body. The nozzle groups can lay in an injection plane perpendicular to the axis of the terminal portion of the lance. Downstream of the lance, the burner has an outlet. A ratio x/L between an axial distance x between the side trailing edge of the vortex generator and the injection plane, and the length L of the tubular body can be less than approximately 0.1052.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Johannes BUSS, Andrea CIANI, Michael DÜSING, Adnan EROGLU
  • Publication number: 20100229570
    Abstract: The burner (1) for a gas turbine includes a duct (2) housing a plurality of tetrahedron shaped vortex generators (3) and a lance (4) to inject a fuel to be combusted. Within the duct (2), a plurality of vortex generators (3) are provided with a plurality of holes (9) for injecting cooling air. The cooling holes (9) define passing through areas that are non-uniformly distributed on a top wall (11) of the vortex generators (3). A method for locally cooling a hot gases flow passing through a burner includes non-uniformly injecting cooling air from a vortex generator into the hot gas flow in the duct, which can reduce the occurrence of flashback in the burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Andrea Ciani, Johannes Buss, Michael Düsing, Urs Benz
  • Publication number: 20100192591
    Abstract: A burner (1) for a gas turbine includes a duct (2) enclosing a plurality of vortex generators (3) and, downstream of them, a lance (5) provided with nozzles (6) for injecting a gaseous fuel. The burner (1) also includes a mixer (7) for diluting and mixing the gaseous fuel with air to form a mixture. The mixer (7) is connected to the nozzles (6) for feeding them with the mixture. A method includes feeding the gaseous fuel in the burner (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Douglas Anthony Pennell, Johannes Buss, Richard Smith
  • Patent number: 6247299
    Abstract: A description is given of a method for feeding liquid and/or gaseous fuels to gas turbines, by means of which method the same feed path to the burner of the gas turbine can be used for both fuels, the liquid fuel being processed before being fed to the burner. This processing takes place in a fuel pre-evaporator which, for the purpose of processing the liquid fuel, has an evaporator tube 2, which is made of a material with good thermal conductivity, interacts with a heating device (3) and, at its one end, is connected to a feed device (4) for a flushing gas, and, at its other end, is connected to a fuel feed and discharge appliance (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Johannes Buss, Klaus Döbbeling, Dieter Winkler