Patents by Inventor Thomas Primke

Thomas Primke 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).

  • Method of selective combustor control for reduced emissions
    Patent number: 11067279
    Abstract: A method, including: operating an industrial gas turbine engine having a plurality of combustor cans arranged in an annular array, each can having burner stages and a pilot burner arrangement having a premix pilot burner and a diffusion pilot burner; operating in asymmetric combustion, wherein at least one can is a warm can where respective burners stages are off and remaining cans operate as hot cans where respective burner stages are on; and while maintaining a constant rate of fuel flow to the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can, changing fuel fractions within the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Clifford E. Johnson, Weidong Cai, Krishna C. Miduturi, Ben Karanja, Michael Huth, Werner Krebs, Mark Seifarth, Thomas Primke, Yohannes Ghermay
  • A METHOD OF SELECTIVE COMBUSTOR CONTROL FOR REDUCED EMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20200309375
    Abstract: A method, including: operating an industrial gas turbine engine having a plurality of combustor cans arranged in an annular array, each can having burner stages and a pilot burner arrangement having a premix pilot burner and a diffusion pilot burner; operating in asymmetric combustion, wherein at least one can is a warm can where respective burners stages are off and remaining cans operate as hot cans where respective burner stages are on; and while maintaining a constant rate of fuel flow to the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can, changing fuel fractions within the pilot burner arrangement of the warm can.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Clifford E. Johnson, Weidong Cai, Krishna C. Miduturi, Ben Karanja, Michael Huth, Werner Krebs, Mark Seifarth, Thomas Primke, Yohannes Ghermay