Patents by Inventor Staffan Jönsson

Staffan Jönsson 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: 9611762
    Abstract: A fossil fuel fired power plant for the generation of electrical energy comprises a water steam cycle and a plant (10) for the capture of CO2 from exhaust gases emitted by the power plant and a steam jet ejector (24) configured and arranged to receive an input steam flow from a low- or intermediate pressure extraction point in the power plant and to increase its pressure. It is further arranged to receive motive steam (25) from a further extraction point in the power plant. A steam line (27, 22) directs the steam of increased pressure from the steam jet ejector (24) to the CO2 capture plant (10). The power plant according to this invention allows the use of low-pressure steam for the operation of the CO2 capture plant, where the extraction of such steam affects the overall efficiency of the power plant to a lesser degree than in power plant of the state of the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Staffan Jönsson, Hongtao Li, Enrico Conte
  • Patent number: 8911538
    Abstract: A system for treating an effluent stream including a carbon capture system utilizing an amine-containing solution to remove carbon dioxide from a flue gas stream, the carbon capture system generating an effluent stream comprising degradation products generated by the amine-containing solution; storage means for storing at least a portion of the effluent stream, the storage means being fluidly coupled to the carbon capture system. The system also including at least one nozzle connected to a combustion zone of a boiler, the at least one nozzle being fluidly coupled to the storage means for providing at least a portion of the effluent stream present in the storage means to the combustion zone of the boiler through the at least one nozzle, wherein the effluent stream provided to the combustion zone is co-incinerated with a fuel in the combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Staffan Joensson, Bjorn Ungerer, Christoph Weingartner, Shin G. Kang, Armand A. Levasseur
  • Publication number: 20140208782
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system comprising an absorber; the absorber permitting contact between a flue gas stream that comprises carbon dioxide and a solvent to produce a carbon dioxide rich solvent; a regenerator disposed downstream of the absorber; the regenerator being operative to dissociate the carbon dioxide from the solvent; and a compression system disposed downstream of the regenerator comprising a plurality of compression stages; where each compression stage comprises a compressor that is operative to pressurize the carbon dioxide that is dissociated from the solvent; and where at least some of the compression stages comprise a knockout tank disposed upstream of the compressor and an intercooling heat exchanger disposed downstream of the compressor; where the knockout tank is operative to remove liquid present in the carbon dioxide and where the intercooling heat exchanger is operative to remove heat generated during the pressurizing of the carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Staffan Joensson, Hardy Rauchfuss, Gisbert Kaefer, Turgay Pekedemir, Michal Bialkowski, Andreas Brautsch
  • Publication number: 20130319303
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of milling a fuel for an oxy-fuel combustion burner, the method includes: separating air into a hot nitrogen gas stream, having a temperature of at least 150° C. and a purity of at least 98 mol-% nitrogen, and an oxygen gas stream; leading at least a part of the nitrogen gas stream to a fuel mill; milling the fuel by means of the fuel mill in a nitrogen rich atmosphere formed by means of the nitrogen gas stream; leading the at least a part of the nitrogen gas stream away from the milled fuel; leading the oxygen gas stream to the oxy-fuel combustion burner; conveying the milled fuel to the oxy-fuel combustion burner; and burning the fuel, by means of the oxy-fuel combustion burner, in an oxygen rich atmosphere formed by means of the oxygen gas stream. The present disclosure further relates to a system for milling a fuel for an oxy-fuel combustion burner as well as to a power plant comprising such a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LTd
    Inventors: Gerhard HEINZ, Hellmuth BRUEGGEMANN, Friedemann KENDEL, Hardy RAUCHFUSS, Thomas WILD, Patrick MOENCKERT, Gisbert Wolfgang KAEFER, Staffan JÖNSSON, Michal Tadeusz BIALKOWSKI, Turgay PEKDEMIR
  • Publication number: 20130160857
    Abstract: A system for treating an effluent stream including a carbon capture system utilizing an amine-containing solution to remove carbon dioxide from a flue gas stream, the carbon capture system generating an effluent stream comprising degradation products generated by the amine-containing solution; storage means for storing at least a portion of the effluent stream, the storage means being fluidly coupled to the carbon capture system. The system also including at least one nozzle connected to a combustion zone of a boiler, the at least one nozzle being fluidly coupled to the storage means for providing at least a portion of the effluent stream present in the storage means to the combustion zone of the boiler through the at least one nozzle, wherein the effluent stream provided to the combustion zone is co-incinerated with a fuel in the combustion zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Staffan Joensson, Bjorn Ungerer, Christoph Weingartner, Shin G. Kang, Armand A. Levasseur
  • Publication number: 20130133326
    Abstract: A fossil fuel fired power plant for the generation of electrical energy comprises a water steam cycle and a plant (10) for the capture of CO2 from exhaust gases emitted by the power plant and a steam jet ejector (24) configured and arranged to receive an input steam flow from a low- or intermediate pressure extraction point in the power plant and to increase its pressure. It is further arranged to receive motive steam (25) from a further extraction point in the power plant. A steam line (27, 22) directs the steam of increased pressure from the steam jet ejector (24) to the CO2 capture plant (10). The power plant according to this invention allows the use of low-pressure steam for the operation of the CO2 capture plant, where the extraction of such steam affects the overall efficiency of the power plant to a lesser degree than in power plant of the state of the art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Staffan Jönsson, Hongtao Li, Enrico Conte
  • Publication number: 20120247104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing steam to a gas recovery unit 130 based on changes to steam flow to and/or power generated by a power generation unit 119. The gas recovery unit 130 may part of a thermal power generation unit 100 and may be an amine based CO2 recovery unit including two or more regenerator columns 153.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicants: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC., ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Nareshkumar B. HANDAGAMA, Rasesh R. KOTDAWALA, Staffan Jönsson, Allen M. PFEFFER, Olivier DRENIK, Jacques MARCHAND, Craig Norman SCHUBERT