Patents by Inventor Werner Kessler

Werner Kessler 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).

  • Gas turbine with a plurality of burners and a fuel distribution system, and a method for balancing a fuel distribution system
    Patent number: 6293105
    Abstract: In a gas turbine (10) with a plurality of individual burners (B1, . . . , B6; Bn) which are connected to a fuel distribution system (21) and are supplied with fuel from a common fuel feed (28) via the fuel distribution system (21), there being provided, within the fuel distribution system (21), means by which the fuel mass flows to the individual burners (B1, . . . , B6; Bn) can be varied in order to improve the operating parameters of the gas turbine (10), an improvement in the operating parameters is achieved in a simple way in that a fixed throttle member, determining the fuel mass flow to at least one of the burners (B1, . . . , B6; Bn), is arranged in the fuel distribution system (21) upstream of the at least one burner, and in that the reduction in cross section of the throttle member is selected in such a way that existing inequalities in the fuel distribution system (21) as regards the fuel mass flows to the individual burners (B1, . . . , B6; Bn) are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Ola Claesson, Jaan Hellat, Werner Kessler, Frank Reiss, Wilfried Strittmatter, Stefan Tschirren