Patents by Inventor Thomas Charles Amond, III

Thomas Charles Amond, III 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for low emission gas turbine energy generation
    Patent number: 7546736
    Abstract: A low-emission method for producing power using a gas turbine includes premixing a plurality of fuel and air mixtures, injecting the fuel and air mixtures into a combustion chamber using a plurality of fuel nozzles, and adjusting a ratio of fuel and air injected by at least one of the nozzles to control a fuel/air concentration distribution within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Amond, III, Bradley Donald Crawley, Natesh Chandrashekar, Balan Nagarajan, Rebecca Arlene Feigl-Varela
  • Inboard radial dump venturi for combustion chamber of a gas turbine
    Patent number: 7389643
    Abstract: A double wall venturi chamber having a converging section, a diverging section and a cylindrical section wherein said chamber defines a venturi zone in which compressed air, fuel and combustion products flow downstream through converging section, diverging section and cylindrical section, and has a cooling gas passage between the walls of the venturi chamber, a least one cooling gas inlet in an outlet wall of the venturi chamber, and at least one cooling gas outlet in an inner wall of the venturi chamber, wherein said cooling gas outlet is in at least one of the diverging and the cylindrical section, and the outlet is downstream of the at least one cooling gas inlet and upstream of an axial end of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Derrick Walter Simons, Thomas Charles Amond, III, Ajay Kumar Gupta
  • Methods and apparatus for low emission gas turbine energy generation
    Patent number: 7284378
    Abstract: A low-emission method for producing power using a gas turbine includes premixing a plurality of fuel and air mixtures, injecting the fuel and air mixtures into a combustion chamber using a plurality of fuel nozzles, and adjusting a ratio of fuel and air injected by at least one of the nozzles to control a fuel/air concentration distribution within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Amond, III, Bradley Donald Crawley, Natesh Chandrashekar, Balan Nagarajan, Rebecca Arlene Feigl-Varela