Patents by Inventor Samer MAALOUF
Samer MAALOUF 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).
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Publication number: 20240043135Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel conditioning system (SC) configured to supply an aircraft turbine engine using fuel (Q) from a cryogenic tank (RC), the conditioning system (SC) comprising at least one pumping turbomachine (1), a first heat exchanger (31) configured to heat the fuel (Q) in the fuel circuit (CQ) by circulating an air stream (A), and at least one heating turbomachine (2) configured to supply an air flow (A) to the first heat exchanger (31), the heating turbomachine (2) comprising an air intake compressor (21), a combustion chamber (24) and an air exhaust turbine (22) configured to drive the air intake compressor (21), the combustion chamber (24) being supplied with air taken from the air flow (A) and with the fuel (Q) from the fuel circuit (CQ).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: SAFRANInventors: Pierre-Alain Marie Cyrille Lambert, Samer Maalouf
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Patent number: 11891955Abstract: A heat exchange system of a turbomachine, includes a heat exchanger including a support wall, a plurality of fins each extending in a radial direction from a radially outer surface of the support wall, and a cover covering the fins, wherein the cover is connected, upstream in the direction of flow of the air flow, to a first profiled wall, and downstream to a second profiled wall, the first profiled wall being arranged upstream from the fins and configured to guide and slow down the flow of air entering the heat exchanger through the fins, and the second profiled wall being arranged downstream from the fins and configured so as to accelerate the flow of air leaving the heat exchanger, wherein the cover has an at least partially curvilinear aerodynamic profile and an outer peripheral surface having surface continuity with radially outer surfaces of the first and second walls.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Ephraïm Toubiana, Samer Maalouf, Etienne Yung Tang
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Publication number: 20230358487Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a support wall and a first plurality of fins that each stand proud from an outer surface of the support wall and are designed to have a first air flow pass over them. According to the invention, the heat exchanger comprises, downstream of the first plurality of fins, a second plurality of fins that each stand proud from the outer surface of the support wall, the first and second pluralities of fins being separated by distribution means which are configured in such a way that the first air flow flows outside the second plurality of fins and a second air flow flowing outside the first plurality of fins passes through the second plurality of fins.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Ephraïm Toubiana, Samer Maalouf
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Patent number: 11808204Abstract: A fuel supply circuit for an aeronautical cryogenic turbomachine including: at least one cryogenic reservoir containing a liquid fuel topped with a boil-off gas and including a high-pressure liquid pump to supply at least one main propulsion device of the turbomachine with liquid fuel, an auxiliary turbomachine including an electric generator, a gas compressor to supply the auxiliary turbomachine with gaseous fuel, and a buffer gas reservoir connecting the gas compressor to the cryogenic reservoir to reinject gas into the cryogenic reservoir in order to maintain the pressure in the cryogenic reservoir above a predefined value, the electric generator supplying the high-pressure liquid pump and the gas compressor.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: SAFRAN, ARIANEGROUP SASInventors: Pierre-Alain Lambert, Hugo Pierre Mohamed Jouan, Samer Maalouf, Louis-Vianney Mabille De La Paumeliere, Carlos Alberto Cruz, Davide Duri
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Publication number: 20230243308Abstract: A system for heating cryogenic fuel includes a storage take, a supply line, a closed circuit, a cryogenic fuel heat exchanger, one or more working fluid heat exchangers, and a controller The storage tank stores the cryogenic fuel in a liquid state. The supply line connects the storage tank to a combustion chamber of an aircraft turbine engine. The closed circuit circulates a heat-transfer fluid. The cryogenic fuel heat exchanger heats the cryogenic fuel by the heat-transfer fluid. The closed circuit includes a pump for circulating the heat-transfer fluid and a closed expansion vessel connected to the closed circuit. The controller controls the pump to ensure a heat-transfer fluid flow rate inside the closed circuit so that the closed expansion vessel keeps the heat-transfer fluid circulating in the closed circuit at a pressure such that the heat-transfer fluid remains in the liquid state and does not change phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: SAFRANInventors: Hugo Pierre Mohamed JOUAN, Samer MAALOUF
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Publication number: 20230243300Abstract: A fuel supply circuit for an aeronautical cryogenic turbomachine including: at least one cryogenic reservoir containing a liquid fuel topped with a boil-off gas and including a high-pressure liquid pump to supply at least one main propulsion device of the turbomachine with liquid fuel, an auxiliary turbomachine including an electric generator, a gas compressor to supply the auxiliary turbomachine with gaseous fuel, and a buffer gas reservoir connecting the gas compressor to the cryogenic reservoir to reinject gas into the cryogenic reservoir in order to maintain the pressure in the cryogenic reservoir above a predefined value, the electric generator supplying the high-pressure liquid pump and the gas compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN, ARIANEGROUP SASInventors: Pierre-Alain LAMBERT, Hugo Pierre Mohamed JOUAN, Samer MAALOUF, Louis-Vianney MABILLE DE LA PAUMELIERE, Carlos Alberto CRUZ, Davide DURI
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Patent number: 11655761Abstract: A heat exchange system for a turbomachine includes a heat exchanger that has a support wall extending along a longitudinal direction L and a plurality of fins each extending along a radial direction from a radially external surface of the support wall. The heat exchanger further includes a first profiled wall arranged upstream from the fins and configured to guide and slow down the flow of air entering the heat exchanger through the fins. A second profiled wall is arranged downstream from the fins and configured to accelerate the flow of air leaving the heat exchanger. Each first and second profiled wall is attached to the support wall via support elements extending radially from the radially external surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Ephraïm Toubiana, Samer Maalouf, Etienne Yung Tang
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Publication number: 20220235704Abstract: A heat exchange system for a turbomachine includes a heat exchanger that has a support wall extending along a longitudinal direction L and a plurality of fins each extending along a radial direction from a radially external surface of the support wall. The heat exchanger further includes a first profiled wall arranged upstream from the fins and configured to guide and slow down the flow of air entering the heat exchanger through the fins. A second profiled wall is arranged downstream from the fins and configured to accelerate the flow of air leaving the heat exchanger. Each first and second profiled wall is attached to the support wall via support elements extending radially from the radially external surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: SAFRANInventors: Ephraïm TOUBIANA, Samer MAALOUF, Etienne Yung TANG
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Publication number: 20220205390Abstract: A heat exchange system of a turbomachine, includes a heat exchanger including a support wall, a plurality of fins each extending in a radial direction from a radially outer surface of the support wall, and a cover covering the fins, wherein the cover is connected, upstream in the direction of flow of the air flow, to a first profiled wall, and downstream to a second profiled wall, the first profiled wall being arranged upstream from the fins and configured to guide and slow down the flow of air entering the heat exchanger through the fins, and the second profiled wall being arranged downstream from the fins and configured so as to accelerate the flow of air leaving the heat exchanger, wherein the cover has an at least partially curvilinear aerodynamic profile and an outer peripheral surface having surface continuity with radially outer surfaces of the first and second walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SAFRANInventors: Ephraïm Toubiana, Samer Maalouf, Etienne Yung Tang
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Patent number: 10954832Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a circuit of a first fluid of a turbomachine, the cooling system including a refrigerant fluid circuit including a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant fluid and air, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant fluid and the first fluid, an expander located downstream from the first heat exchanger and upstream from the second heat exchanger in the flow direction of the refrigerant fluid, and a compressor located downstream from the second heat exchanger and upstream from the first heat exchanger; the cooling system further includes a third heat exchanger of the first fluid and air type.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignees: SAFRAN, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Samer Maalouf, Nawal Jaljal, Pierre Dumoulin, Nicolas Tauveron
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Patent number: 10794231Abstract: A reversible system for dissipating heat power generated in a gas turbine engine, the system including a condenser-forming first heat exchanger, an evaporator-forming second heat exchanger, a scroll compressor suitable for operating as a compressor when the temperature of the cold source is higher than a predefined threshold temperature and as a turbine when the temperature of the cold source is lower than the threshold temperature, an expander and a pump arranged in parallel, and a control valve arranged upstream from the expander and the pump and suitable for directing the refrigerant fluid to the expander when the temperature of the cold source is higher than the threshold temperature and to the pump when the temperature of the cold source is lower than the threshold temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SAFRANInventor: Samer Maalouf
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Publication number: 20190309665Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a circuit of a first fluid of a turbomachine, the cooling system including a refrigerant fluid circuit including a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant fluid and air, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant fluid and the first fluid, an expander located downstream from the first heat exchanger and upstream from the second heat exchanger in the flow direction of the refrigerant fluid, and a compressor located downstream from the second heat exchanger and upstream from the first heat exchanger; the cooling system further includes a third heat exchanger of the first fluid and air type.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicants: SAFRAN, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Samer MAALOUF, Nawal JALJAL, Pierre DUMOULIN, Nicolas TAUVERON
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Publication number: 20190277165Abstract: A reversible system for dissipating heat power generated in a gas turbine engine, the system including a condenser-forming first heat exchanger, an evaporator-forming second heat exchanger, a scroll compressor suitable for operating as a compressor when the temperature of the cold source is higher than a predefined threshold temperature and as a turbine when the temperature of the cold source is lower than the threshold temperature, an expander and a pump arranged in parallel, and a control valve arranged upstream from the expander and the pump and suitable for directing the refrigerant fluid to the expander when the temperature of the cold source is higher than the threshold temperature and to the pump when the temperature of the cold source is lower than the threshold temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: SAFRANInventor: Samer MAALOUF