Patents by Inventor Walter Phillip Jones

Walter Phillip Jones 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: 6405521
    Abstract: A method of augmenting power in a gas turbine plant that includes a compressor, at least one combustor, a turbine component and an output shaft, comprising a) supplying air and water to a heat recovery boiler; b) providing a turbine controller that controls supply of air, steam or a mixture of air and steam to the combustor; c) storing data in the turbine controller including properties of air, steam and equations for determining properties of any mixture of air and steam; d) measuring a differential pressure of the air, steam or mixture of air and steam across a metering tube located upstream of the combustor; e) determining instantaneously the mass flow rate of the air, steam or mixture of air and steam as a function of said differential pressure and desired power output; and f) supplying the air, steam or mixture of air and steam to the combustor at the flow rate determined in step e); wherein step f) is carried out with a control valve downstream of the metering tube, the control valve operatively connect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jatila Ranasinghe, Walter Phillip Jones