Turbogenerators Patents (Class 290/52)
  • Patent number: 11606011
    Abstract: An electric machine is provided. The electric machine defines a centerline and includes: a stator assembly; a rotor assembly rotatable relative to the stator assembly about the centerline; and an actuator coupled to the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both for moving the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both along the centerline between a first position and a second position, the rotor assembly positioned closer to the stator assembly when in the first position than when in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Darek Tomasz Zatorski, Mohamed Osama, Christopher Charles Glynn
  • Patent number: 11591987
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine, including a fan that is able to rotate inside a casing, and an electric machine including a rotor secured to the fan and a stator secured to the casing, wherein the rotor of the electric machine includes a ring that is able to rotate inside the stator, which is linked by arms to a cone mounted upstream from the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Caroline Marie Frantz, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Loic Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent Francois Georges Millier
  • Patent number: 11581736
    Abstract: A method and a system for evaluating inertia of a power system and a storage medium. The method includes: injecting a cosine active power disturbance into the power system by small-disturbance injection, and obtaining frequency response at a node where the disturbance is injected, where the active power disturbance can be an energy storage, wind power, or photovoltaic power; acquiring an evaluation framework of inertia and frequency regulation capability of the power system according to relative characteristics of a frequency response function; and constructing a mathematical relationship between the impedance and frequency response characteristics according to a relationship among active power disturbance, frequency fluctuation and impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hunan University
    Inventors: Yunfeng Wen, Wuqi Zhang, Wei Guo
  • Patent number: 11566567
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a low speed spool mechanically interconnecting a low pressure turbine and at least one of a fan and a prop, a high speed spool mechanically interconnecting a high pressure turbine and a high pressure compressor, and an epicyclic gear system mechanically coupled to the high speed spool. The gas turbine engine also includes a low pressure compressor mechanically coupled to the high speed spool via the epicyclic gear system. The low pressure compressor may be mechanically independent of the low speed spool. The gas turbine engine may include a plurality of motor-generators for transferring power between the high speed spool and the low pressure compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Bernard Kupratis
  • Patent number: 11555380
    Abstract: A downhole power generation includes a power generation module for providing power to a load. A turbine is driven by flow of a downhole fluid to rotate. A generator is coupled with the turbine for converting rotational energy from the turbine to electrical energy, and an AC-DC rectifier is coupled with the generator for converting an alternating voltage from the generator to a direct voltage. A power conversion circuit couples the AC-DC rectifier with the load. The power conversion circuit is configured for providing a first power to the load when the load is in a working mode and providing a second power to the load when the load is in a non-working mode. The second power is less than the first power. A downhole power generation method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Saijun Mao, Yunzheng Chen, Yi Liao, Xuele Qi, Ming Xue, Stewart Blake Brazil
  • Patent number: 11549386
    Abstract: The gas turbine generator includes: a first gas turbine element 2; a second gas turbine element 3; a single combustor 4 connected to the gas turbine elements 2 and 3; a first supply pipe 51 that connects the first compressor 21 to the combustor 4; a second supply pipe 52 that connects the second compressor 31 to the combustor 4; a first discharge pipe 53 that connects the combustor 4 to the first turbine 22; a second discharge pipe 54 that connects the combustor 4 to the second turbine 32; and a flywheel 7 that is connected to at least one of the first rotation shaft 23 and the second rotation shaft 33 and absorbs a torque fluctuation generated in the connected gas turbine element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunichiro Tamada
  • Patent number: 11489363
    Abstract: An auxiliary power source is configured to black start a power plant. The auxiliary power source includes a first power source having an auxiliary generator driven by an auxiliary drive. The auxiliary power source also includes a second power source having energy storage. The auxiliary power source is configured to supply power from the first and second power sources to support the black start of the power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Roland Hug
  • Patent number: 11441419
    Abstract: A complete telemetry system and methods for downhole operations. The telemetry system includes an instrumented near-bit sub located below the Mud Motor and connected to the drill bit as well as a conventional MWD tool located above the mud motor. Parameters such as inclination of the borehole, the natural gamma ray of the formations, the electrical resistivity of the formations, and a range of mechanical drilling performance parameters are measured. Electromagnetic telemetry signals representing these measurements are transmitted uphole to a receiver associated with the conventional MWD tool located above the motor, and transmitted by this tool to the surface via mud pulse signals. The system is particularly useful for accurate control over the drilling of extended reach and horizontally drilled wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: U-Target Energy Ltd.
    Inventors: Xia Pan, Zhenyuan Hu, Fuchun Liu, Silviu Calin, Zhiqun Wang, Jack Wang, Michel Herzig
  • Patent number: 11434763
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing mobile electric power includes a power generation transport. The power generation transport includes an air inlet filter housing, an inlet plenum coupled to the air inlet filter housing, an exhaust collector, an exhaust implement coupled to the exhaust collector, a gas turbine, a generator driven by the gas turbine, and an elevating system configured to elevate the exhaust implement to convert the power generation transport to an operational mode, and lower the exhaust implement back down to convert the power generation transport to a transportation mode. The elevating system performs the elevating and the lowering without utilizing any external mechanical apparatus. The air inlet filter housing, the inlet plenum, the exhaust collector, the exhaust implement, the gas turbine, the generator, and the elevating system are mounted on the power generation transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Typhon Technology Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Morris, Brett Vann
  • Patent number: 11421645
    Abstract: An energy capture, storage, and conversion device, including a housing, a rotor rotatably arranged in the housing, a stator fixedly secured to the housing and concentrically arranged around the rotor, a spring arranged in the housing and connected to the rotor, and an oscillating weight assembly operatively arranged in the housing to wind the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Loubert S. Suddaby
  • Patent number: 11384694
    Abstract: An auxiliary device system includes a motor generator, an auxiliary device motor, a converter configured to convert electric power generated by the motor generator, an inverter configured to drive the motor generator and the auxiliary device motor, a switch configured to be switched between a motor generator control state in which the inverter controls the motor generator and an auxiliary device motor control state in which the inverter controls the auxiliary device motor, and a controller configured to control the switch. When a condition in which a motor generator drive command is generated is satisfied, the controller sets the switch to the motor generator control state. When the condition is not satisfied, the controller sets the switch to the auxiliary device motor control state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Shibayama, Tatsuya Okuwa, Yoshiaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 11381134
    Abstract: A Sub-Terrestrial Updraft Tower (STUT), combination subsurface Downdraft/Updraft Tower, comprising an Inner Updraft Shaft and Outer Downdraft Shaft, housing the Inner Updraft Shaft, receiving air flow from air-inlets at surface level into Outer Downdraft Shaft. Upon reaching the bottom of the Outer Downdraft Shaft, air flow reverses In direction, inward and upward, into the Inner Updraft Shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PowerSILO Inc.
    Inventor: Rod Nash
  • Patent number: 11339758
    Abstract: A DC power plant generating DC power from a variety of engines including a Stirling cycle engine. The DC power plant includes a relatively small start-up power source that is discontinued after the engine is running. A method for producing DC power for a load including starting up an engine using power supplied by a relatively small power supply supplemented by a capacitor bank, providing output from the engine to a generator, producing alternating current (AC) power by the generator, converting the AC power to direct current (DC) power, disabling output of the DC power during a first set of pre-selected conditions, limiting a rate of change of current of the DC power during a second set of pre-selected conditions, reducing conducted and radiated emissions of the DC power, disconnecting the DC power from the load under a third set of pre-selected conditions, and providing the DC power to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Andrew A. Schnellinger, James R. Lowell, Bryan A. Finseth, Christopher L. Barber, Jason M. Sachs, Donald J. Lucas, Shannon Prescott, Jeffrey W. Kite, Andras K. Fekete, Douglas R. Adams
  • Patent number: 11293413
    Abstract: Device for storing energy, using a physical object, such as a mass or buoyant object floating in fluid. A mass is repositioned to greater altitude in a gravitational field to a position of higher potential energy. A buoyant object is forcibly submerged into a fluid, displacing fluid, to a position of higher potential energy. The stored potential energy may be recovered with extremely low loss regardless of the state of charge of the system, or length of time of the storage. Maintaining the charge is indefinitely lossless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: James Francis Kellinger, Michael Thane MacKay
  • Patent number: 11291137
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cabinet, a coolant circulation mechanism, and a heat exchange mechanism. The coolant circulation mechanism includes a first conduit, a second conduit, a control conduit, and a circulation conduit. The circulation conduit is connected to the cabinet and the heat exchange mechanism. The first conduit and the second conduit are connected to the heat exchange mechanism. The control conduit is connected to the cabinet and selectively connects to the first conduit or the second conduit. When the control conduit connects to the second conduit, coolant from the cabinet flows to the heat exchange mechanism through the second conduit. When the control conduit connects to the first conduit, coolant from the heat exchange mechanism flows to the cabinet through the first conduit. Coolant in the cabinet flows through the circulation conduit to the heat exchange mechanism when a level of the coolant reaches the circulation conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS(TIANJIN)CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao-Ke Wei, Hui-Hsuan Wang, Ching-Tang Liu
  • Patent number: 11274880
    Abstract: A drive system for liquefied natural gas (LNG) refrigeration compressors in a LNG liquefaction plant. Each of three refrigeration compression strings include refrigeration compressors and a multi-shaft gas turbine capable of non-synchronous operation. The multi-shaft gas turbine is operationally connected to the refrigeration compressors and is configured to drive the one or more refrigeration compressors. The multi-shaft gas turbine uses its inherent speed turndown range to start the one or more refrigeration compressors from rest, bring the one or more refrigeration compressors up to an operating rotational speed, and adjust compressor operating points to maximize efficiency of the one or more refrigeration compressors, without assistance from electrical motors with drive-through capability and variable frequency drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Ashley R. Guy, Sorin T. Lupascu, Donna J. Parker, Yow-Yeen Lee
  • Patent number: 11274604
    Abstract: A bowed rotor start mitigation system for a gas turbine engine of an aircraft is provided. The bowed rotor start mitigation system includes a motoring system and a controller coupled to the motoring system and an aircraft communication bus. The controller is configured to determine at least one inferred engine operating thermal parameter based on at least one aircraft-based parameter received on the aircraft communication bus, where the at least one inferred engine operating thermal parameter is based on data describing a history of the aircraft before an engine shutdown. The motoring system is controlled to drive rotation of a starting spool of the gas turbine engine below an engine idle speed based on determining that the at least one inferred engine operating thermal parameter is within a preselected range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Amy R. Grace
  • Patent number: 11274671
    Abstract: Systems here include cone shaped turbine caps mounted to a turbo molecular turbine assembly. In some embodiments, the turbo molecular turbine assembly includes a body with a top cavity, a bottom cavity and external fins, the body mounted to a pump rotor. In some embodiments, the turbo molecular turbine assembly and cone shaped turbine cap are configured to fit into a chamber and spun by the mounted pump rotor. In some embodiments, the turbine external fins are configured to pump gasses and suspended particles from the chamber when spun. And in some embodiments, the cone shaped turbine cap includes a vent channel for venting air from the top cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventor: Roger L. Bottomfield
  • Patent number: 11271453
    Abstract: A turbine generator assembly for generating power from a fluid flow, the assembly comprising: a housing for directing fluid flow, a turbine generator having a longitudinal axis of extension, enclosed in said housing, said turbine generator comprising: a plurality of blades provided on a central rotational axis being parallel with the longitudinal axis, a rotor, and a stator arranged peripherally and annular to the rotor; at least one of the plurality of blades being provided in fixed arrangement with the rotor, and wherein the stator of the turbine generator comprises a plurality of segments each having a coil length parallel to the longitudinal axis of the turbine, and a radial coil thickness, wherein at least two stator segments have different coil lengths and/or thickness to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: AQUA ROBUR TECHNOLOGIES AB
    Inventors: Martin Holm, Niklas Wicén
  • Patent number: 11261751
    Abstract: A hybrid electric propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine having a low speed spool and a high speed spool. The low speed spool includes a low pressure compressor and turbine, and the high speed spool includes a high pressure compressor and turbine. The hybrid electric propulsion system includes an electric generator configured to extract power from the low speed spool, an electric motor configured to augment rotational power of the high speed spool, and a controller. The controller is operable to determine a target operating condition of the low pressure compressor to achieve a compressor stability margin in the gas turbine engine, determine a current operating condition of the low pressure compressor, and control a power transfer between the electric generator of the low speed spool and the electric motor of the high speed spool to adjust the current operating condition based on the target operating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Golfin, Neil Terwilliger
  • Patent number: 11255262
    Abstract: A hybrid compressed air energy storage system is provided. A heat exchanger 114 extracts thermal energy from a compressed air to generate a cooled compressed air stored in an air storage reservoir 120, e.g., a cavern. A heat exchanger 124 transfers thermal energy generated by a carbon-neutral thermal energy source 130 to cooled compressed air conveyed from reservoir 120 to generate a heated compressed air. An expander 140 is solely responsive to the heated compressed air by heat exchanger 124 to produce power and generate an expanded air. Expander 140 is effective to reduce a temperature of the expanded air by expander 140, and thus a transfer of thermal energy from an expanded exhaust gas received by a recuperator 146 (used to heat the expanded air by the first expander) is effective for reducing waste of thermal energy in exhaust gas cooled by recuperator 146.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DRESSER-RAND COMPANY
    Inventor: Joseph T. Williams
  • Patent number: 11248578
    Abstract: This installation for converting a hydraulic energy into electrical energy comprises a hydraulic adapted to be operated either in a pump mode or in a turbine mode. It further comprises means (25) for applying an electric torque to the rotor to control the rotation speed of the machine during transitions between the pump mode and the turbine mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Quentin Alloin, Theophane Foggia, Renaud Guillaume
  • Patent number: 11242840
    Abstract: An ocean water power-generator for generation of renewable energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventor: Yik Hei Sia
  • Patent number: 11236273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing energy products, notably fuel, by catalytic cracking of a hydrocarbon-based solid material without coke formation, in which a cracking dispersion (40) is heated, said dispersion comprising: a solid material (1) in divided form containing at least one hydrocarbon-based compound; a liquid (30) which is inert with respect to catalytic cracking; so that the cracking dispersion (40) reaches a temperature suitable for allowing catalytic cracking of at least one hydrocarbon-based compound; characterized in that the cracking temperature is reached by mixing an amount of cracking dispersion (40) and an amount of inert liquid (30) brought to a temperature above the cracking temperature, such that the mixture formed reaches a temperature above the cracking temperature and below the temperature for formation of coke, dioxin and furan. The invention also relates to a device for performing such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Pierre Dumons
  • Patent number: 11231006
    Abstract: A method for stabilizing the rotation speed of a machine with S-characteristics is provided. The method includes calculating a target net head and a target opening to affect guide vanes of the machine, the target net head and the target opening being calculated so that the torque exerted by water flow on the turbine is null and that the machine rotates at a target rotation speed; determining a real net head to which the machine is subjected; comparing the target net head with the real net head; and adjusting the opening of the guide vanes so as to converge towards the target opening and reduce a height difference between the target net head and the real net head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Quentin Alloin, Nicolas Perrissin-Fabert, Renaud Guillaume
  • Patent number: 11225883
    Abstract: A turbomachine housing element, having a flow channel for accommodating a rotor blade assembly and a first cavity at least partially produced by primary shaping; the first cavity being adapted for passive thermal insulation and/or the assemblable turbomachine housing element not being adapted for the active circulation of fluid through the first cavity; and/or, between the first cavity and the flow channel, a separate seal being attached to turbomachine housing element; and/or the first cavity extending in the axial direction of the flow channel over at least 20% of a minimum axial length of the turbomachine housing element at the level of the cavity and/or over a minimum axial length of the separate seal and/or being filled with air or a thermally insulating fluid, whose specific thermal conductivity ? is at least 10% lower than the specific thermal conductivity ? of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Lothar Albers
  • Patent number: 11220954
    Abstract: An object is to provide a supercharging system capable of actively and easily controlling a rotational speed of a turbine generator. A supercharging system includes a compressor driven by an electric motor to pump fluid to an engine, a turbine generator rotated by exhaust from the engine, and a drive device that drives the electric motor by electricity generated by the turbine generator, wherein the drive device includes a rectifying unit that rectifies the electricity generated by the turbine generator, a converter unit that steps up or down a voltage value of a DC voltage rectified by the rectifying unit and outputs the DC voltage, an inverter unit that drives the electric motor using the DC voltage output from the converter unit, and a control unit that controls a change amount of the DC voltage in the converter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Takuya Koyanagi, Vissuta Jiwariyavej, Ayumi Naito
  • Patent number: 11211890
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a rectifier circuit, an inverse conversion circuit, and a capacitor. The rectifier circuit rectifies alternating current power of the alternating current power supply. The inverse conversion circuit inversely converts a voltage Vdc rectified by the rectifier circuit into an alternating current voltage having a certain frequency and applies the alternating current voltage to a motor whose maximum power consumption Pmax is 2 kW or larger. The capacitor is provided between the rectifier circuit and the inverse conversion circuit and has a capacitance C that satisfies a condition of a following expression in relation to an alternating current voltage Vac of the alternating current power supply and the maximum power consumption Pmax. C ? 350 Ă— 10 - 6 ? P ? ? max Vac 2 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Kouno, Hirotaka Doi, Yukihide Yamane
  • Patent number: 11203968
    Abstract: Systems are disclosed for power systems and enclosures having an improved compressor drive. In examples, a power system includes a generator to be driven by an engine. The generator is coupled to the engine on a first side of the generator and has a clutch extending from a second side of the generator opposite the engine. The clutch is coupled to the engine. A compressor is positioned at the second side of the generator opposite from the engine. The compressor comprising a shaft extending toward the generator and configured to be driven by the clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Joe Jochman
  • Patent number: 11193426
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrically gear turbofan that includes a fan; a first spool shaft; and an electrical gearbox including: an armature winding connected to the first spool shaft and coupled to a power source; and a magnetic receiver connected to the fan, and wherein an air gap is defined between the armature winding and the magnetic receiver. The turbines and electrical gearing enable an operator to rotate the spool shaft at a first rotational speed; power an armature winding to generate an armature magnetic field, wherein the armature magnetic field rotates at a second rotational speed; transfer rotational energy via the armature magnetic field from the spool shaft to the magnetic receiver; and rotate the fan at a third rotational speed. In some aspects, the third rotational speed is controlled via a direction and a magnitude of the second rotational speed relative to the first rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Shengyi Liu
  • Patent number: 11193474
    Abstract: Air powered electrical generator (APEG) motive parts are mounted on an axle carrying bilateral air turbines and two intermediate rotor subassemblies. Circular rotor blade plates have scalene triangularly shaped cavities with long leading edge sides receiving compressed air flow, short trailing edge sides and an open peripheral air portal. Adjacently mounted blades are offset such that one air portal then another air portal is presented to compressed air flow from nozzles during rotation. Each turbine shroud has a manifold feeding compressed air to the nozzle, as a venturi, due alternating presented air portals. Each rotor carries permanent magnets on its radially outboard segments. Bilateral stationary stators are transversely fixedly mounted outboard of the rotating rotor subassemblies. Electrical outputs carry power from the stators when the rotor subassemblies rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Bizhub Group LLC
    Inventor: Peter Mark Evans
  • Patent number: 11174715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing fluid produced from a geothermal source to generate electrical power and provide energy for upstream oil processing as part of a binary power generation station. Use of the geothermally-heated fluid continues in an enhanced oil recovery operation. Thermal energy of the geothermally-heated fluid heats a working fluid of a binary power generation plant to operate a turbine and to heat an oil heating medium as part of a gas-oil separation plant. The enhanced oil recovery operation may be a waterflooding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Michael Atisele
  • Patent number: 11168674
    Abstract: A wave energy thermal storage type seawater thermoelectric power generation device which comprises a buoy-type energy capture system, a platform system and a mooring system. A whole friction liquid heating, thermal storage and power generation device is arranged inside a platform, which improves the adaptability of the whole system to the external environment. A flywheel and liquid friction heating method is adopted to generate heat more efficiently. Inner ratchets and pawls are used to control the movement of a flywheel so that the flywheel always rotates in one direction, and when the rotating speed of the flywheel exceeds that of the inner ratchets, the external wave energy cannot be transferred to the flywheel through the movement of the inner ratchets so as to limit the upper limit of the rotating speed of the flywheel and protect the safety of the flywheel system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chongwei Zhang, Qianze Zhuang, Dezhi Ning
  • Patent number: 11149635
    Abstract: System and methods are provided that use a recharge device to resupply a reservoir and tank with fluids used to power a turbine, which in turn powers a generator, wherein one of the resupplied fluids is used to cool a load that is powered by the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Michael Karam, Kaare Erickson, Robert Duge
  • Patent number: 11131208
    Abstract: A turbine engine is described that includes an intake, an inlet duct configured to receive fluid from the intake, and an outer bypass duct configured to receive fluid from the intake. The turbine engine further includes a drive shaft, a tower shaft mechanically coupled to the drive shaft, and an electric generator mechanically coupled to the tower shaft. The electric generator is located between the inlet duct and the outer bypass duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Eugene Auker, Edward Claude Rice
  • Patent number: 11133671
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a control device is provided and controls a power converter that can be connected to a terminal of a direct current power transmission system transmitting power according to a current command value that is set. The control device includes a first characteristic setter having a first characteristic preset. When the power converter is set at a power transmission end of the direct current power transmission system, the first characteristic outputs an output terminal voltage for the power converter. The output terminal voltage corresponds to a current of a current control based on a current command value set at a power receiving end of the direct current power transmission system. The output terminal voltage of the first characteristic monotonously decreasing with respect to the current of the current control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Hattori, Tomohisa Okami
  • Patent number: 11105553
    Abstract: A drive system for liquefied natural gas (LNG) production. A standardized machinery string consisting of a multi-shaft gas turbine with no more than three compressor bodies, where the compressor bodies are applied to one or more refrigerant compressors employed in one or more refrigerant cycles (e.g., single mixed refrigerant, propane precooled mixed refrigerant, dual mixed refrigerant). The standardized machinery strings and associated standardized refrigerators are designed for a generic range of feed gas composition and ambient temperature conditions and are installed in opportunistic liquefaction plants without substantial reengineering and modifications. The approach captures D1BM (“Design 1 Build Many) cost and schedule efficiencies by allowing for broader variability in liquefaction efficiency with location and feed gas composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Donald J. Victory, Sorin T. Lupascu, Kary E. Saleeby, O. Angus Sites
  • Patent number: 11081915
    Abstract: A rotor device for an electric motor and/or generator with a rotor body and a plurality of magnets, wherein the rotor body comprises a rotor shaft seat and a plurality of magnet receptacles arranged coaxially with the rotor shaft seat. The magnets are rigidly positioned and mounted in the magnet receptacles by means of a plastic molding compound injected into the magnet receptacles, which plastic molding compound forms at least one cover element that covers the openings of the magnet receptacles at least partially. The cover element comprises at least one magnet wheel centering means and/or at least one magnet wheel alignment means. The invention furthermore relates to a rotor and a motor with such a rotor device as well as to a production method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: BĂśHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventor: Georg Bernreuther
  • Patent number: 11081916
    Abstract: A rotor device for an electric motor and/or generator with a rotor body and a plurality of magnets, wherein the rotor body comprises a rotor shaft seat and a plurality of magnet receptacles arranged coaxially with the rotor shaft seat. The magnets are rigidly positioned and mounted in the magnet receptacles by means of a plastic molding compound injected into the magnet receptacles, which plastic molding compound forms at least one cover element that covers the openings of the magnet receptacles at least partially. The cover element comprises at least one magnet wheel centering means and/or at least one magnet wheel alignment means. The invention furthermore relates to a rotor and a motor with such a rotor device as well as to a production method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: BĂśHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventor: Georg Bernreuther
  • Patent number: 11073125
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for generating electricity based on water flow is disclosed. The system comprises a first pipe fitting, a turbine, and a second pipe fitting. The first pipe fitting couples to a pipe that supplies a fluid to a building. The turbine is in fluid communication with the first pipe fitting and rotates in response to a kinetic energy of the fluid supplied by the pipe flowing through the turbine, generates electricity in response to rotation of the turbine, and reduces a pressure of the fluid from a first pressure to a second pressure. The second pipe fitting couples the turbine to an input pipe of the building. The turbine further comprises a conversion circuit that conditions the generated electricity for consumption by the building and conveys the generated electricity to the building via one or more conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Anthony Macaluso
  • Patent number: 11060424
    Abstract: Provided is a solar thermal power generation facility that includes: a compressor; a medium heating heat receiver that receives sunlight and heats a compressed medium from the compressor; a turbine that is driven by the compressed medium heated by the medium heating heat receiver; a power generator that generates electric power by driving of the turbine; and a tower that supports these components. The compressor, the turbine, and the power generator are formed as arranged devices. A plurality of the arranged devices are aligned in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Umaya, Masato Ota, Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Tadaharu Kishibe, Takahiro Marumoto, Masato Kurita
  • Patent number: 11050322
    Abstract: An integrated flywheel energy storage device includes an inner stator having an interior support component and multiple stator cores connected to the interior support component, each with an associated stator coil arranged in multiple electrical phases. An outer rotor housing supports multiple active rotor poles which each face inward toward the stator cores, the active rotor poles being permanent magnets, copper relining, an induction squirrel cage, or variable reluctance poles. A vacuum containment housing surrounds the outer rotor housing. The outer rotor housing has a rotational moment of inertia that stores kinetic energy as a kinetic battery, allowing the device to deliver multi-phase electrical power when required. High power density is achieved by integrating the flywheel into the outer rotor housing. The device additionally functions as a gyroscope for stabilizing an exterior structure, or as a gyroscopic reference for navigational purposes when supported on a gimballed platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jacek F. Gieras, Lubomir A. Ribarov
  • Patent number: 11035337
    Abstract: A hydroelectric generation system includes a fluid machine disposed in a penstock or channel, a generator driven by the fluid machine, and a control unit configured to generate a predetermined torque in the generator. Fluid flows through the penstock or channel. The penstock or channel has a main path in which the fluid machine is disposed, and a detour disposed in parallel with the main path. The detour includes an on-off valve. The on-off valve is opened when not electrified, and closed when electrified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Abe, Atsushi Suhara, Yoshiyuki Harada, Tomomi Sakamoto, Yusuke Irino
  • Patent number: 11031845
    Abstract: A system for relieving pressure from within a generator casing can include a generator shaft defining a shaft channel therein and at least one rotating valve disposed within the shaft channel of the generator shaft and in fluid communication with an interior of the generator casing and the atmosphere. The rotating valve is configured to allow fluid within the generator casing to flow through the generator shaft to the atmosphere in an open state and while rotating. The rotating valve is configured to prevent fluid within the generator casing from flowing in a closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. Turner, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr., David S. Behling, Andrew P. Grosskopf, Nathan D. Kohnle, Andrew D. Smith
  • Patent number: 11028733
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to electrical power systems or steam generator systems including generating capacity of a coal plant where specific emissions and power is improved with an alternately fueled engine driving one or more air processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Powerphase International, LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Kraft
  • Patent number: 11012016
    Abstract: A controller may use energy packets to control a prime mover of a machine. The controller may include an energy packet measurement control to calculate energy packets and convert the energy packets into a fuel valve reference. Further, a frequency control may receive system feedback associated with the monitored machine and generate a frequency correction based on the system feedback. The controller may add the energy packet value and the frequency correction to determine a prime mover power reference and provide the prime mover power reference to a fuel valve control of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, Gregary C. Zweigle, Ellery A. Blood, Scott M. Manson
  • Patent number: 10995674
    Abstract: An embodiment of an engine assembly includes a plurality of offtakes powered by a combustion turbine engine having a high spool and at least one lower spool, and a controller configured to operate the combustion turbine engine through a range between a first low-idle mode, a second high idle mode, and a maximum takeoff power rating mode. The controller operates the engine in the low-idle mode by directing at least a first portion of power from the at least one lower spool to the plurality of offtakes, and wherein the controller operates the engine in the high idle mode by increasing a speed of the high spool relative to a speed of the high spool in the low-idle mode, thereby increasing a compressor outlet (T3) temperature in the high idle mode relative to a T3 temperature in the low-idle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Neil Terwilliger, John P. Virtue
  • Patent number: 10989443
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for directing radiant energy to permanently shadowed or occasionally shadowed regions such as on the floors of craters or in valleys in lunar polar regions to provide illumination, thermal power, electricity, communications, and other services. Embodiments of the systems include reflector elements to provide diffuse illumination, focused illumination, and thermal power, structures to support the reflectors and other elements, communications devices for varied signal types, and methods for installing the system. The structure can be compactly folded and delivered to be automatically installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Trans Astronautica Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Sercel, Craig Peterson, Anthony Longman
  • Patent number: 10947950
    Abstract: A hydroelectric power generation apparatus includes a hydroelectric power generation module, a beam as a supporting part, and a fixing part. The hydroelectric power generation module includes a rotary blade and a power generator that generates power by rotation of the rotary blade. The supporting part supports the hydroelectric power generation module. The fixing part fixes the supporting part to a water channel. The fixing part includes a bolt to press a surface of a wall portion of the water channel to fix the supporting part to the water channel. The hydroelectric power generation apparatus can dispense with a work performed around the water channel to install the apparatus and also be relocated easily and inexpensively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoya Kawai, Yoshio Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 10920677
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method and a system for implementing the method so as to alleviate the disadvantages of a reciprocating combustion engine and gas turbine when generating power. The invention is based on the idea of arranging a combustion chamber (10) outside a turbine (22) and providing compressed air from serially connected compressors to an air chamber in which the air is heated and then exhausted to the combustion chamber in order to carry out a combustion process supplemented with high pressure steam pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Finno Energy Oy
    Inventors: Timo Erämaa, Heikki J. Salminen