Patents by Inventor Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin 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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Patent number: 11873764Abstract: A hazardous gas monitoring system is provided. The hazardous gas monitoring system includes a panel including multiple sensing lines. Each sensing line is configured to receive and monitor an air sample. Each sensing line includes a water separator to remove condensed moisture, a coalescing filter disposed downstream of the water separator, and a flow and gas monitoring system disposed downstream of the coalescing filter. The hazardous gas monitoring system may be used to monitor the presence of hazardous gases within an enclosure, such as an enclosure for a turbomachine.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Melinda Stephanie Ammerman, Miguel Angel Mendoza, Jaymil Jitendrakumar Patel
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Patent number: 11821814Abstract: A leak detection system is provided with a first window configured to mount at a first opening in a first wall portion in an enclosure (e.g., for a gas turbine engine or other equipment in a power plant). The leak detection system includes a leak sensor configured to transmit a beam through the first window and an interior of the enclosure to obtain sensor feedback. The leak detection system includes a controller configured to evaluate the sensor feedback to monitor for a leak of a hazardous fluid in the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Miguel Angel Mendoza, Srinivas Avishetti, Rajesh Reddy Konatham
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Publication number: 20220299395Abstract: A leak detection system is provided with a first window configured to mount at a first opening in a first wall portion in an enclosure (e.g., for a gas turbine engine or other equipment in a power plant). The leak detection system includes a leak sensor configured to transmit a beam through the first window and an interior of the enclosure to obtain sensor feedback. The leak detection system includes a controller configured to evaluate the sensor feedback to monitor for a leak of a hazardous fluid in the enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Miguel Angel Mendoza, Srinivas Avishetti, Rajesh Reddy Konatham
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Patent number: 11319877Abstract: An inlet bleed heat (IBH) system for use in a turbine engine including a silencer assembly. The inlet bleed heat (IBH) system includes a feed pipe for delivering compressor discharge air. The feed pipe includes a plurality of orifices along at least a portion of a length of the feed pipe, and each orifice of the plurality of orifices extends through a wall of the feed pipe for allowing the compressor discharge air to exit the feed pipe. The system also includes a heat shielding component that extends across the feed pipe, wherein the heat shielding component is configured to reduce heat transfer between the feed pipe and the silencer assembly of the turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Laxmikant Merchant, Hua Zhang, Naveen Parmeshwar
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Patent number: 11248610Abstract: A liquid injection apparatus for use with a compressor having a rotor shaft and a casing part is provided. The liquid injection apparatus includes at least one conduit and at least one nozzle coupled to the conduit(s). The liquid injection apparatus is panel-shaped and has a first panel segment, a second panel segment, and at least one of: a passage defined between the first panel segment and the second panel segment, the passage sized to receive at least one of the rotor shaft and the casing part; and a third panel segment positioned between the first panel segment and the second panel segment. The third panel segment is at least in part detachable from the first panel segment and/or the second panel segment for receiving at least one of the rotor shaft and the casing part between the first panel segment and the second panel segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Laxmikant Merchant, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Jeffrey Patrick Mills, Divya Reddy Kothakapu, Weilun Yu, Joshua Adam Bagwell
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Patent number: 11209017Abstract: A system includes an inlet duct disposed about an inlet axis, wherein the inlet duct is configured to direct an airflow along the inlet axis to a compressor inlet. The inlet includes an inlet heating system and a heating portion having a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the inlet axis. The inlet heating system includes a first conduit substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis that is configured to distribute a heated fluid directly to the airflow via a first set of openings of a first end zone of the first conduit and a second set of openings of a second zone of the first conduit. The first end zone is configured to receive the heated fluid from a heating source, the second zone is coupled to the first end zone, and the second zone is configured to receive the heated fluid from the first end zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alan Eskandar, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Hua Zhang, Christopher Conrad Frese
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Publication number: 20210381437Abstract: A hazardous gas monitoring system is provided. The hazardous gas monitoring system includes a panel including multiple sensing lines. Each sensing line is configured to receive and monitor an air sample. Each sensing line includes a water separator to remove condensed moisture, a coalescing filter disposed downstream of the water separator, and a flow and gas monitoring system disposed downstream of the coalescing filter. The hazardous gas monitoring system may be used to monitor the presence of hazardous gases within an enclosure, such as an enclosure for a turbomachine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Melinda Stephanie Ammerman, Miguel Angel Mendoza, Jaymil Jitendrakumar Patel
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Publication number: 20210025326Abstract: An inlet bleed heat (IBH) system for use in a turbine engine including a silencer assembly. The inlet bleed heat (IBH) system includes a feed pipe for delivering compressor discharge air. The feed pipe includes a plurality of orifices along at least a portion of a length of the feed pipe, and each orifice of the plurality of orifices extends through a wall of the feed pipe for allowing the compressor discharge air to exit the feed pipe. The system also includes a heat shielding component that extends across the feed pipe, wherein the heat shielding component is configured to reduce heat transfer between the feed pipe and the silencer assembly of the turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Laxmikant Merchant, Hua Zhang, Naveen Parmeshwar
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Patent number: 10883387Abstract: A gas turbine system includes an exhaust processing system that may process exhaust gas generated by a gas turbine engine, the exhaust processing system includes an exhaust diffuser that may receive the exhaust gas from a turbine of the gas turbine engine and having an annular passage disposed between an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall, and an air injection assembly disposed within the exhaust diffuser. The air injection assembly includes one or more air injection conduits disposed within the annular passage of the exhaust diffuser and including fluid injection holes that may direct a cooling fluid into a first mixing region of the exhaust diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Zhang, Laxmikant Merchant, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
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Patent number: 10815894Abstract: An exhaust processing system that includes: an exhaust passageway for directing exhaust gases, the exhaust passageway having passageway walls that define and enclose the exhaust passageway between an upstream position and a downstream position; and an acoustic liner formed against and covering at least one of the passageway walls of the exhaust passageway. The acoustic liner may include uniformly configured modular acoustic blocks fitted against each other. The modular acoustic blocks each may include interior cavities having different lengths configured to dampen targeted sound frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Zhang, Richard Lynn Loud, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
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Patent number: 10801406Abstract: An inlet bleed heat (IBH) system for use in a turbine engine including a silencer assembly. The inlet bleed heat (IBH) system includes a feed pipe for delivering compressor discharge air. The feed pipe includes a plurality of orifices along at least a portion of a length of the feed pipe, and each orifice of the plurality of orifices extends through a wall of the feed pipe for allowing the compressor discharge air to exit the feed pipe. The system also includes a heat shielding component that extends across the feed pipe, wherein the heat shielding component is configured to reduce heat transfer between the feed pipe and the silencer assembly of the turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Laxmikant Merchant, Hua Zhang, Naveen Parmeshwar
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Publication number: 20200284261Abstract: A liquid injection apparatus for use with a compressor having a rotor shaft and a casing part is provided. The liquid injection apparatus includes at least one conduit and at least one nozzle coupled to the conduit(s). The liquid injection apparatus is panel-shaped and has a first panel segment, a second panel segment, and at least one of: a passage defined between the first panel segment and the second panel segment, the passage sized to receive at least one of the rotor shaft and the casing part; and a third panel segment positioned between the first panel segment and the second panel segment. The third panel segment is at least in part detachable from the first panel segment and/or the second panel segment for receiving at least one of the rotor shaft and the casing part between the first panel segment and the second panel segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Laxmikant Merchant, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Jeffrey Patrick Mills, Divya Reddy Kothakapu, Weilun Yu, Joshua Adam Bagwell
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Patent number: 10722990Abstract: A method includes assembling a silencer baffle configured to mount in a fluid conduit along a fluid flow path, where assembling the silencer baffle includes coupling together a plurality of baffle sections via mating interlock structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Naveen Ghattadhahalli Parmeshwar, Hua Zhang, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
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Patent number: 10670018Abstract: A liquid injection apparatus for use with a compressor having a rotor shaft and a casing part is provided. The liquid injection apparatus includes at least one conduit and at least one nozzle coupled to the conduit(s). The liquid injection apparatus is panel-shaped and has a first panel segment, a second panel segment, and at least one of: a passage defined between the first panel segment and the second panel segment, the passage sized to receive at least one of the rotor shaft and the casing part; and a third panel segment positioned between the first panel segment and the second panel segment. The third panel segment is at least in part detachable from the first panel segment and/or the second panel segment for receiving at least one of the rotor shaft and the casing part between the first panel segment and the second panel segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Laxmikant Merchant, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Jeffrey Patrick Mills, Divya Reddy Kothakapu, Weilun Yu, Joshua Adam Bagwell
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Publication number: 20200063757Abstract: A system includes an inlet duct disposed about an inlet axis, wherein the inlet duct is configured to direct an airflow along the inlet axis to a compressor inlet. The inlet includes an inlet heating system and a heating portion having a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the inlet axis. The inlet heating system includes a first conduit substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis that is configured to distribute a heated fluid directly to the airflow via a first set of openings of a first end zone of the first conduit and a second set of openings of a second zone of the first conduit. The first end zone is configured to receive the heated fluid from a heating source, the second zone is coupled to the first end zone, and the second zone is configured to receive the heated fluid from the first end zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Alan Eskandar, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Hua Zhang, Christopher Conrad Frese
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Patent number: 10550766Abstract: A system includes a silencer baffle which mounts in a fluid conduit along a fluid flow path. The silencer baffle includes a first baffle section having first and second baffle portions which couple together laterally about a support structure extending between opposite sides of the fluid conduit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Zhang, Jianhua Wang, Naveen Ghattadhahalli Parmeshwar, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel
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Patent number: 10495000Abstract: The present application provides a gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine may include a compressor and an inlet air system positioned upstream of the compressor. The inlet air system may include a wetted media pad for evaporative cooling. The wetted media pad may include a contoured configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Zhang, Naveen Ghattadhahalli Parmeshwar, Christopher Conrad Frese, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel
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Patent number: 10465714Abstract: A silencer duct that may be part of, for example, a turbomachine inlet and may include a duct body, and a silencer element extending axially through the duct body. A first portion of a coupler may extend axially from a first side of the duct body. A second portion of a coupler may extend axially from a second side of the duct body. At least one of the first portion of the coupler and the second portion of the coupler are configured to couple to at least one of an adjacent silencer duct and an inlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Laxmikant Merchant, Javeed Iqbaluddin Mohammed, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Dinesh Venugopal Setty, Hua Zhang
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Patent number: 10385778Abstract: A system includes a silencer baffle which mounts in a fluid conduit along a fluid flow path, where the silencer baffle includes a plurality of baffle sections. At least two baffle sections of the plurality of baffle sections couple together via mating interlock structures, and at least one baffle section of the plurality of baffle sections has first and second baffle portions which couple together via mating joints.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Zhang, Jianhua Wang, Yanyan Liu, Naveen Ghattadhahalli Parmeshwar, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Bradly Aaron Kippel
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Publication number: 20190120143Abstract: An exhaust processing system that includes: an exhaust passageway for directing exhaust gases, the exhaust passageway having passageway walls that define and enclose the exhaust passageway between an upstream position and a downstream position; and an acoustic liner formed against and covering at least one of the passageway walls of the exhaust passageway. The acoustic liner may include uniformly configured modular acoustic blocks fitted against each other. The modular acoustic blocks each may include interior cavities having different lengths configured to dampen targeted sound frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Zhang, Richard Lynn Loud, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin