Patents by Inventor Svend Bram

Svend Bram 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).

  • Process and installation for producing electric power
    Patent number: 7866160
    Abstract: A process and an installation produces electric power or cogenerates electric and thermal power. A hydrocarbon fuel is enriched through an endothermic reforming reaction on a mixture of the fuel with steam or water. The heat for the reforming reaction is supplied by the combustion of a material, preferably biomass, different from the hydrocarbon fuel. The process integrates this reforming reaction in a gas turbine installation, wherein up to 12% of the exhaust gases of the gas turbine are used as comburant air for the combustion of the material. The process is shown to have little or even no impact on the gas turbine cycle performance when no reforming is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Inventors: Jacques De Ruyck, Svend Bram, Frank Delattin
  • PROCESS AND INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING ELECTRIC POWER
    Publication number: 20090229271
    Abstract: A process and an installation produces electric power or cogenerates electric and thermal power. A hydrocarbon fuel is enriched through an endothermic reforming reaction on a mixture of the fuel with steam or water. The heat for the reforming reaction is supplied by the combustion of a material, preferably biomass, different from the hydrocarbon fuel. The process integrates this reforming reaction in a gas turbine installation, wherein up to 12% of the exhaust gases of the gas turbine are used as comburant air for the combustion of the material. The process is shown to have little or even no impact on the gas turbine cycle performance when no reforming is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Inventors: Jacques De Ruyck, Svend Bram, Frank Delattin