Steam And Combustion Products Patents (Class 60/39.182)
  • Patent number: 12258886
    Abstract: A gas generator has a first and a second piston disposed in, respectively, a first and a second fluid chamber and coupled to, respectively, a first and a second combustion chamber to be actuatable by combustion that expands the respective combustions chambers. The first and second fluid chambers receive liquid CO2 and the combustion chambers receive fuel and oxygen for combustion. The second piston is mechanically coupled to the first piston, such that combustion in the first and second combustion chambers pushes the liquid CO2 from the first and second fluid chambers to, respectively, the second and first combustion chambers while expelling, respectively, the combustion gases and vaporized CO2 (the mixed working fluid) from the first and second combustion chambers to an expander for generating power. The mixed working fluid is supplied to a closed reservoir, from where liquid CO2 is supplied back to the first and second fluid chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Darrell Ford
  • Patent number: 12244147
    Abstract: A renewable power system with a twin-configurable architecture is described. The system includes a renewable energy source (RES), an energy storage system (ESS), and at least one controllable load (CL) (e.g., AI training/datacenter). The system can serve as a baseload or semi-baseload plant for CL(s) and/or as a peaker or semi-peaker plant for an electric grid, or vice-versa, and optionally in parallel, can also provide ancillary services to the electric grid and/or to the CL(s). In certain embodiments, e.g. solar PV RES(es), the system can have capacity factors of at least about 60% and up to 100%, higher asset utilization, better economics for the RES-ESS, improved system performance, and lower energy costs as compared with known systems without a CL(s). By making load a variable, and integral part of the system, sophisticated resource allocation strategies, including AI algorithms, can be developed not previously possible with known systems lacking a CL(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: 1st Avenue Nova, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Buttgenbach
  • Patent number: 12222101
    Abstract: A modular combustion system for flexible energy generation is provided. The system comprises a plurality of combustion boilers, at least one oxidizer supply unit providing an oxidizer stream to the combustion boilers, at least one feeder to provide fuel to the combustion boilers, at least one particle removal unit to remove particles from a flue gas output stream from the combustion boilers, and a pollution removal unit to remove pollutant gases from the flue gas output stream. A process for flexible energy generation using the modular combustion system is disclosed that includes providing an oxidizer stream to a plurality of combustion boilers with at least one oxidizer supply unit, providing fuel to the plurality of combustion boilers with at least one feeder, removing particles from a flue gas output stream from the plurality of combustion boilers with at least one particle removal unit, and removing pollutant gases from a particle-free flue gas output stream with at least one pollution removal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Richard Axelbaum, Zhiwei Yang, Piyush Verma
  • Patent number: 12173650
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant (CCPP) includes a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) that includes a first economizer and a condensate supply line. The HRSG receives a flow of exhaust gas from the turbine section. The CCPP further includes a fuel heating system that has a fuel supply line and a high temperature heat exchanger. The fuel supply line is fluidly coupled to the combustion section. The high temperature heat exchanger is disposed in thermal communication on the fuel supply line. A high temperature input line fluidly couples the high temperature heat exchanger to the first economizer of the HRSG such that the high temperature heat exchanger receives water from the first economizer. A recirculation line fluidly coupling the high temperature heat exchanger to the condensate supply. A hydro turbine is disposed on the recirculation line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventor: Raub Warfield Smith
  • Patent number: 12134981
    Abstract: A combined power generation system includes a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) generating steam using combustion gas from the gas turbine, a vaporizer vaporizing liquefied ammonia, an ammonia decomposer section decomposing ammonia with the combustion gas, a first exhaust gas line through which exhaust gas from the gas turbine is transferred to the HRSG, a steam turbine generating a rotational force with the steam from the HRSG, a decomposed gas supply line through which decomposed gases generated in the ammonia decomposer section are supplied to a combustor, and a cold heat transfer line absorbing cold heat of the liquefied ammonia and supply the cold heat to the condenser section, and a condenser section condensing the steam from the steam turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Min Lee, Byoung Youn Kim, In Chul Shin, Eun Seong Cho
  • Patent number: 12136751
    Abstract: A system and method for power generation and CO2 sequestration include a fuel cell system configured to generate power using natural gas (NG), a container configured to store liquid natural gas (LNG), and a fluid processor configured to convert LNG received from the container into NG and to convert exhaust output from the fuel cell system to dry ice by transferring heat between and the LNG and the exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Martin Perry
  • Patent number: 12129792
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a steam system including an intermittent operation processing step and a commissioning processing step are executed. The intermittent operation processing step includes: a no-load operation step in which a gas turbine is operated with no load, with a steam stop valve and a bypass valve closed; during the no-load operation step, a pressure accumulating step in which steam is accumulated in a pressure accumulation region; and, after the pressure accumulating step, an intermittent blowing step in which the bypass valve is opened, and steam in the pressure accumulation region is allowed to flow into a condenser. The commissioning processing step includes: a commissioning step in which the gas turbine is commissioned with the steam stop valve closed and the bypass valve open; and a continuous blowing step in which steam from a waste heat recovery boiler is allowed to flow into the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Ueda, Kazushige Kuwazuru, Daiki Fujimura, Motohiro Goshima
  • Patent number: 12129773
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for start-up and control of liquid salt energy storage combined cycle systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PINTAIL POWER LLC
    Inventor: William M. Conlon
  • Patent number: 12129787
    Abstract: A turbine engine assembly an inter-turbine burner that is disposed between at least two of a plurality of turbine stages where an additional amount of fuel is mixed with an exhaust gas flow to generate a reheated gas flow. A condenser extracts water from the reheated gas flow and an evaporator system generates a steam flow from at least a portion of water that is extracted by the condenser for injection into the core airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph B. Staubach, Joseph E. Turney, Neil J. Terwilliger
  • Patent number: 12110823
    Abstract: A recovery system includes a special organic Rankine cycle (SORC) system, an internal combustion system, a nitrogen generator and a gas-liquid separator. The SORC system includes a first stage heat exchanger (first HE), a plurality of second stage heat exchangers (second HE), a third stage heat exchanger (third HE), a turbo-expander, and at least one condenser. A recovery method, conducted in the recovery system, includes vaporizing a refrigerant, introducing the vaporized refrigerant to the turbo-expander to generate electricity, condensing the vaporized refrigerant in the at least one condenser, collecting nitrogen from the flue gas feed in the nitrogen generator, and collecting water from the flue gas feed in the gas-liquid separator. The refrigerant is vaporized by introducing the refrigerant through the first HE, second HE and third HE sequentially, and the flue gas feed through the third HE, second HE and first HE sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Samusideen Adewale Salu, Hussain M. Bayat, Ali Mohammad Abbas
  • Patent number: 12078093
    Abstract: Turbine fracturing equipment is provided. The turbine fracturing equipment includes: a turbine engine, having an exhaust end configured to discharge exhaust gas; an exhaust pipe having a first end and a second end, the first end of the exhaust pipe being configured such that the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust end of the turbine engine enters the exhaust pipe, and the second end of the exhaust pipe being configured to discharge the exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe; and an exhaust gas energy recovery device, the exhaust gas energy recovery device including a thermal energy recovery mechanism configured to recover thermal energy of the exhaust gas and a kinetic energy recovery mechanism configured to recover kinetic energy of the exhaust gas, at least a part of the thermal energy recovery mechanism and at least a part of the kinetic energy recovery mechanism are arranged in the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolei Ji, Rikui Zhang, Ruijie Du, Peng Zhang, Sheng Chang, Chunqiang Lan, Yipeng Wu, Xincheng Li
  • Patent number: 12031508
    Abstract: A gas compression system includes a first compressor and a second compressor. The first compressor is configured to compress a first gas for transport through a pipeline to a processing facility having one or more centralized gas aftertreatment systems and the second compressor is configured to compress a second gas for transport through the pipeline to the processing facility, where the first and second gases are different from one another, and the second gas comprises an exhaust gas from a combustion system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Innio Waukesha Gas Engines Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fimml, Nikolaus Spyra, Lorne Eugene Nix, Kenneth Edward Neuman, Shawn Douglas Givler
  • Patent number: 12031457
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant (CCPP) is provided. The CCPP includes a gas turbine that has a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. The CCPP further includes a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) that has a first economizer. The HRSG receives a flow of exhaust gas from the turbine section. The HRSG further includes a fuel heating system that has a fuel supply line and a high temperature heat exchanger disposed in thermal communication on the fuel supply line. The fuel supply line is fluidly coupled to the combustion section. The high temperature heat exchanger is fluidly coupled to the first economizer such that the high temperature heat exchanger receives water from the first economizer. The CCPP further includes a feedwater pump that is fluidly coupled to the high temperature heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventor: Raub Warfield Smith
  • Patent number: 11988137
    Abstract: A steam injected turbine engine includes a core engine section that generates a first gas flow, a burner where an inlet flow is mixed with fuel and ignited to generate thermal energy, and an evaporator where thermal energy from at least the first gas flow is used to transform water into a first steam flow. The first steam flow is injected into a core flow through the core engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jacob C. Snyder, Jon Erik Sobanski
  • Patent number: 11976588
    Abstract: Gas turbine power plants augmented with an air injection system for hot air injection to augment power and are used to drive sensitive cogeneration processes are fitted with compressed air storage capability to more smoothly ramp on air injection in the event of sudden and unexpected interruption of the air injection system. Utilizing stored hot air injection prior to starting an air injection system significantly reduces the start-up time of the air injection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Powerphase International, LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Kraft, Plazi Ricklin
  • Patent number: 11913360
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a power plant (1) for generating electrical energy for delivery to at least one consumer (16) by combustion of a carbonaceous combustible, wherein carbon dioxide (19) is separated from the flue gas (7) of the power plant (1), the separated carbon dioxide (19) is converted at least in part into a fuel (20), characterized in that the fuel (20) is combusted at least temporarily in at least one heat engine (4) so as to form a waste gas (8), and electrical energy is generated by the heat engine (4) and is delivered to at least one consumer (16), at least some of the thermal energy of the waste gas (8) being used in at least one of the following processes: a) for heating combustion air (10) of a power plant (1); b) for heating a process medium (14) of the power plant (1); c) in a drying of the combustible of the power plant (1); and d) in carbon dioxide separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: RWE Power Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Moser, Georg Wiechers, Sandra Schmidt, Knut Stahl
  • Patent number: 11905963
    Abstract: A suction throttling valve adjusts flow of a process gas through an inlet flowline. A compressor pressurizes the process gas. An outlet flowline flows the process gas from the compressor. An anti-surge flowline branching from the outlet flowline directs a first portion of the process gas from the outlet flowline back to the inlet flowline. The anti-surge flowline is connected to the inlet flowline intermediate of the suction throttling valve and the compressor. An anti-surge control valve adjusts flow of the first portion of the process gas through the anti-surge flowline to the inlet flowline. A bypass flowline provides an alternative flow path for a second portion of the process gas flowing through the anti-surge flowline to the inlet flowline around the suction throttling valve. A bypass control valve adjusts flow of the second portion of the process gas through the bypass flowline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Talal H. Rashidi
  • Patent number: 11892160
    Abstract: A method of suppressing steam production in a HRSG where a volume of feed water is diverted upstream bypassing a portion of the economizer and returning the volume of diverted feed water to a downstream portion of the economizer. A control logic circuit is used to manipulate a suppression control valve regulating the bypassed feed water, thereby reducing the temperature of water in the steam drum. Bypassing feed water flow into a downstream portion of an economizer reduces the steam production rate in the steam drum by increasing the evaporator approach temperature, permitting gas turbines to operate at base load even after an upgrade, by preventing the waste heat boiler from exceeding its rated capacity and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HRST, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Ferris, Anand Gopa Kumar, Evan Almberg, Bryan Craig
  • Patent number: 11879365
    Abstract: A steam turbine plant and an operating method thereof, and a combined cycle plant and an operating method thereof, include: a turbine; steam supply lines that supply main steam to the turbine; a steam control valve and an intercept valve provided to the steam supply lines; and a first auxiliary steam supply line that supplies auxiliary steam to the turbine via the steam supply lines which are located farther downstream than the steam control valve and the intercept valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Fujimura, Susumu Sekine
  • Patent number: 11859494
    Abstract: A combined circulating system of a micro gas turbine, a transportation means, and a charging system are provided. The circulating system includes the micro gas turbine, a heat exchange unit, a circulating water tank, a piston engine, and a power generating apparatus, wherein the micro gas turbine is provided with a regenerator; an exhaust port of the regenerator is connected with an air inlet of the heat exchange unit to provide a heat source to the heat exchange unit; the exhaust port of the heat exchange unit is led to atmosphere, a water inlet of the heat exchange unit is connected with a water outlet of the circulating water tank, and a steam outlet of the heat exchange unit is connected with the piston engine to enable high pressure steam to enter the piston engine to push the piston engine to produce work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGIES' XANADU OF RESONATORY-SOLAR-SYSTEMED CO., LTD
    Inventor: Pu Jin
  • Patent number: 11840932
    Abstract: A first system herein may include: (i) a pumped-heat energy storage system (“PHES system”), wherein the PHES system is operable in a generation mode to convert at least a portion of stored thermal energy into electricity, wherein the PHES system includes a working fluid path circulating a working fluid through, in sequence, at least a compressor system, a hot-side heat exchanger system, a turbine system, a cold-side heat exchanger system, and back to the compressor system; and (ii) a fluid path directing a first fluid through an intercooler and to a power generation plant, and wherein the working fluid path through the compressor system includes circulating the working fluid through, in sequence, at least a first compressor, the intercooler, and a second compressor, and wherein the intercooler thermally contacts the working fluid with the first fluid, transferring heat from the working fluid to the first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MALTA INC.
    Inventor: Bao H. Truong
  • Patent number: 11834968
    Abstract: A steam generation apparatus includes: a heat medium flow passage through which a heat medium flows; a primary economizer disposed in the heat medium flow passage; a secondary economizer disposed in the heat medium flow passage at an upstream side of the primary economizer with respect to a flow direction of the heat medium; a primary evaporator disposed in the heat medium flow passage at an upstream side of the secondary economizer with respect to the flow direction of the heat medium; a first flash tank for generating flash steam; a first feed water line configured to supply water heated by the primary economizer to the secondary economizer; and a second feed water line disposed so as to branch from the first feed water line and configured to supply the water heated by the primary economizer to the first flash tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Yuichi Otani, Fumito Kajitani, Taichi Yoshii, Norito Katsuki, Kanako Nagayama, Takahiro Hidaka
  • Patent number: 11828225
    Abstract: A control device for adjusting an amount of fuel to be supplied to a gas turbine based on a rotational speed of the gas turbine, such that a frequency of electric power output by a power generator that generates electric power using the gas turbine is within a given range, includes a load value acquisition unit configured to acquire a load value that is a value of a load applied to the power generator after cutoff of a part of the load applied to the power generator when the part of the load applied to the power generator is cut off, an arithmetic unit configured to calculate an adjusted value that is a value of the load different from the load value by carrying out an arithmetic operation on the load value and a bias, and a command unit configured to adjust the amount of fuel by outputting a first signal for causing the power generator to output electric power corresponding to the adjusted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Saito, Hidekazu Yamashita, Jun Sasahara, Koichiro Yano, Yosuke Kitauchi, Mizuhiko Tanaka, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11787548
    Abstract: Aircraft power plants including combustion engines, and associated methods for recuperating waste heat from such aircraft power plants are described. A method includes transferring the heat rejected by the internal combustion engine to supercritical CO2 (sCO2) used as a working fluid in a heat engine. The heat engine converts at least some the heat transferred to the sCO2 to mechanical energy to perform useful work onboard the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Jean Thomassin, Serge Dussault, Joseph Brent Staubach
  • Patent number: 11739666
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system including a drive unit, the drive unit having a drive shaft, a compressor, the compressor operably coupled to the drive shaft, wherein operation of the drive unit drives the compressor, and a waste heat recovery cycle, the waste heat recovery cycle coupled to the drive unit and the compressor, wherein a waste heat of the drive unit powers the waste heat recovery cycle, such that the waste heat recovery cycle transmits a mechanical power to the compressor, is provided. Furthermore, an associated method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO COMPTEC, LLC
    Inventor: Jacob Earl Duffney
  • Patent number: 11732616
    Abstract: An arrangement for storing energy, the arrangement comprising a heat-charging mass (4) and a heat-transfer channeling (3), the arrangement also comprising a heating member (11) adapted to heat up the heat-charging mass (4). The arrangement comprises a boiler belonging to a discarded combustion power plant and converted to a thermal energy storage (2) by at least partly filling the boiler with the heat-charging mass (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: CALEFA OY
    Inventors: Antti Porkka, Petri Vuori
  • Patent number: 11729887
    Abstract: A control module is able to be installed with electrical devices, such as, for example electrical loads (e.g., lighting loads) and/or load regulation devices. The control module may determine whether an LED driver for an LED light source is responsive to one or more of a plurality of control techniques. The control module may be able to automatically determine an appropriate control technique to use to control the connected LED driver and/or LED light source. The control module may sequentially attempt to control the LED driver and/or LED light source using each of the plurality of control techniques and determine if the LED driver and/or LED light source is responsive to the present control technique. The plurality of control techniques may include one or more analog control techniques and one or more digital control techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Galen Edgar Knode, Steven J. Kober, Daniel Curtis Raneri, Richard M. Walsh, III
  • Patent number: 11719134
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating power (and optionally heat) from a high value heat source using a plurality of circulating loops comprising a primary heat transfer loop, several power cycle loops and an intermediate heat transfer loop that transfers heat from the high-temperature heat transfer loop to the several power cycle loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: XYZ ENERGY GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Alan Huntington, Frank F. Mittricker, Loren K. Starcher
  • Patent number: 11702964
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hybrid power generation facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song-Hun Cha, Hyun Soo An, Sung Gju Kang, Young Gun Go, Kyoung Taek Oh, SangPil Jo
  • Patent number: 11686258
    Abstract: Control systems and methods suitable for combination with power production systems and methods are provided herein. The control systems and methods may be used with, for example, closed power cycles as well as semi-closed power cycles. The combined control systems and methods and power production systems and methods can provide dynamic control of the power production systems and methods that can be carried out automatically based upon inputs received by controllers and outputs from the controllers to one or more components of the power production systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, Rodney John Allam
  • Patent number: 11674439
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods store energy by liquefying a gas such as air, for example, and then recover the energy by regasifying the liquid and combusting or otherwise reacting the gas with a fuel to drive a heat engine. The process of liquefying the gas may be powered with electric power from the grid, for example, and the heat engine may be used to generate electricity. Hence, in effect these apparatus, systems, and methods may provide for storing electric power from the grid and then subsequently delivering it back to the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Pintail Power LLC
    Inventor: William M. Conlon
  • Patent number: 11661857
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for generating electricity. A method of generating electricity can include evaporating water with a low grade heat source to form low-temperature steam. The low-temperature steam can be superheated to a superheated temperature by transferring heat to the low-temperature steam from a thermal energy storage that is at a temperature higher than the superheated temperature. A steam turbine generator can be powered with the superheated steam to generate electricity. The thermal energy storage can be recharged using electricity from an intermittent electricity source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Cyrq Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Rosenfeld, Susan Petty
  • Patent number: 11661867
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust heat recovery plant includes a plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices that have a gas turbine and an exhaust heat recovery boiler for generating steam by recovering exhaust heat of the gas turbine, a steam-utilizing facility that utilizes the steam generated by the exhaust heat recovery boiler, and an inter-device heat medium supply unit capable of supplying a portion of water heated or a portion of the steam generated by at least one of the gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices out of the plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices, to the other gas turbine exhaust heat recovery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Eisaku Ito
  • Patent number: 11655736
    Abstract: A CCPP includes a gas turbine, a HRSG, a steam turbine a flash tank and first and second supply lines. The gas turbine, the HRSG and the steam turbine are interconnected to generate power. The gas turbine may include an air preheating system to preheat the air supplied in the gas turbine to enable expedite combustion therein. The flash tank is fluidically connected at a cold end of the HRSG to extract waste hot water from the cold end. Further, the first supply line is configured to interconnect the flash tank and the steam turbine to supply of flash steam to the steam turbine. Furthermore, the second supply line is configured to interconnect the flash tank and the air preheating system to supply hot flash condensate thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Klara Berg, Mariah Couzzi-Carneiro, Paul Drouvot, Torbjörn Stenström
  • Patent number: 11629642
    Abstract: A power generation system includes a combustion system, a liquid supply system, and a vapor supply system. The combustion system is configured to generate power by combusting an alternative fuel. The liquid supply system is configured to channel a liquid alternative fuel to the combustion system. The vapor supply system is configured to channel a vapor alternative fuel to the combustion system. The combustion system is ignited by combusting the liquid alternative fuel from the liquid supply system and is operated by combusting the vapor alternative fuel from the vapor supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William James Lawson, Keegan Saunders O'Donnell, Geoffrey D. Myers, Paul Burchell Glaser
  • Patent number: 11629647
    Abstract: Waste heat management systems are described. The waste heat management systems include a turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a nozzle. The compressor section, the combustor section, the turbine section, and the nozzle define a core flow path that expels through the nozzle. The waste heat management systems also include an auxiliary power unit (APU) system and a waste heat recovery system operably connected to the APU system. The APU system is integrated into a working fluid flow path of the waste heat recovery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph B. Staubach, Amanda J. L. Boucher
  • Patent number: 11624317
    Abstract: Supercritical fluid systems and aircraft power systems are described. The systems include a compressor, a turbine, and a generator. A primary working fluid flow path has a primary working fluid that passes through the compressor, a separator, the turbine, and back to the compressor. A secondary working fluid flow path having a secondary working fluid that passes through the generator, the compressor, the separator, and back to the generator. The primary working fluid and the secondary working fluid are compressed and mixed within the compressor to form a mixture of the two fluids and the separator separates the mixture of the two fluids to direct the primary working fluid back to the turbine and the secondary working fluid to the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian M. Holley, Christopher Britton Greene
  • Patent number: 11598327
    Abstract: A system includes a first working fluid compressor configured to pressurize a working fluid, and a prime mover coupled to the first working fluid compressor and configured to provide a mechanical input into the first working fluid compressor. An exhaust assembly is coupled to the prime mover and is configured to receive exhaust heat from the prime mover, the exhaust assembly including a generator configured to generate electric current based on the exhaust heat received by the exhaust assembly. A second working fluid compressor includes an electric motor electrically and synchronously coupled to the generator and configured to pressurize the working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Allan Torrey, Douglas C. Hofer, Bugra Han Ertas
  • Patent number: 11555446
    Abstract: A power production facility comprises a power plant that combusts fuel to produce energy for generating electricity and exhaust gas, an emissions capture unit to receive the exhaust gas to remove pollutants, a fuel cell to generate electricity via reaction of constituents and provide byproduct heat to operate the emissions capture unit, and an electrolyzer to generate constituents for the fuel cell from water byproduct received from the fuel cell resulting from the reaction process. A method of generating power with an emissions capture unit comprises providing a hybrid power plant configured to generate hydrogen gas and oxygen gas with an electrolyzer from a water input using an electrical input, generate electricity, heat and the water input with a fuel cell from the hydrogen gas and oxygen gas of the electrolyzer, and capture emissions from exhaust gas with an emissions capture unit using the heat from the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Shimin Deng
  • Patent number: 11549401
    Abstract: Operating coal fired energy systems. A method of operating a coal fired energy system comprises operating a coal fired steam generator comprising a coal feed system and a main air feed system to provide a coal-air mixture as a heating source for a boiler for generating steam. The method includes operating an auxiliary air compression system comprising a fueled engine coupled to a compressor for providing an auxiliary supply of compressed air to a soot blower of the coal-fired steam generator. The method comprises injecting the auxiliary supply of compressed air along walls of the boiler to remove soot and ash buildup from the boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Powerphase International, LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Kraft
  • Patent number: 11542874
    Abstract: There are provided a gas turbine system and a gas turbine power generator that can achieve an increase in output power and a decrease in fuel efficiency together and curb an increase in cost and weight. There is also provided a gas turbine system that can stably supply a necessary amount of air to a combustor even when a compressor and a turbine on one side are stopped. The gas turbine system 1 includes a plurality of gas turbine units 2 and 3, a single combustor 4, a plurality of pipes 5, a plurality of on-off valves 6, and a control unit 7. In a first operation mode, the control unit 7 controls switching-on/off of the on-off valves 6 such that air is supplied to the combustor 4 from a first compressor 21 and a second compressor 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunichiro Tamada
  • Patent number: 11519426
    Abstract: A non-positive displacement type pressurizing device for pressurizing a fluid includes a rotor including a rotary blade row including a plurality of rotary blades provided at intervals in a circumferential direction; a casing that accommodates the rotor; a stationary blade row supported by the casing and including a plurality of stationary blades provided at intervals in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of heat exchanging units for cooling the fluid, wherein the heat exchanging units are configured to divide a flow path formed between stationary blades, of the plurality of stationary blades, adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction in a height direction of the stationary blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Norito Katsuki, Takahiro Hidaka, Teppei Hata, Takahiro Yamana, Shigeki Senoo, Yuichiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 11506089
    Abstract: A combined cycle plant includes: a gas turbine having a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine; a supplementary firing burner configured to raise a temperature of an exhaust gas of the gas turbine; a heat recovery steam generator configured to generate a steam using an exhaust heat of the exhaust gas; a steam turbine configured to be driven by the steam generated by the heat recovery steam generator; and a control device configured to change both an output of the combustor and an output of the supplementary firing burner when an output of the combined cycle plant is to be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Goichi Matsushiro, Ken Hatano
  • Patent number: 11499408
    Abstract: Methods and systems for treating a subterranean formation. An example method performs a wellbore operation with a first treatment fluid, removes a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon from a well penetrating the subterranean formation; wherein the well is disposed on a wellsite, introduces the flammable gaseous hydrocarbon into a gas-to-liquid reactor located on the wellsite to produce an oleaginous liquid, produces a second treatment fluid comprising the oleaginous liquid at the wellsite, and introduces the second treatment fluid into the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Shumway, Vladimir Gankin
  • Patent number: 11486317
    Abstract: In a one embodiment, a gas turbine system that includes a first pump that supplies distillate fuel to a combustor. A second pump that supplies fuel oil to the combustor. A fuel selection unit that controls a first flow of distillate fuel and a second flow of fuel oil to the combustor. A controller that receives feedback from a sensor and in response to the feedback from the sensor controls the fuel selection unit to start the gas turbine system on the fuel oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Baha Mahmoud Suleiman, Hatem Mohamed Mohyeldin Ibrahim Selim, Jeevankumar Krishnan, Paul Burchell Glaser
  • Patent number: 11480067
    Abstract: A first system herein may include: (i) a pumped-heat energy storage system (“PHES system”), wherein the PHES system is operable in a generation mode to convert at least a portion of stored thermal energy into electricity, wherein the PHES system includes a working fluid path circulating a working fluid through, in sequence, at least a compressor system, a hot-side heat exchanger system, a turbine system, a cold-side heat exchanger system, and back to the compressor system; and (ii) a fluid path directing a first fluid through an intercooler and to a power generation plant, and wherein the working fluid path through the compressor system includes circulating the working fluid through, in sequence, at least a first compressor, the intercooler, and a second compressor, and wherein the intercooler thermally contacts the working fluid with the first fluid, transferring heat from the working fluid to the first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MALTA INC.
    Inventor: Bao H. Truong
  • Patent number: 11480102
    Abstract: A combined cycle power generation system for an aircraft includes fuel cell and supercritical CO2 cycles. The fuel cell cycle includes a compressor and turbine disposed on a first shaft, a fuel cell in fluid communication with the compressor and a fuel source, and a combustor in fluid communication with the fuel cell and the turbine. The combustor is configured to combust partially spent fuel from the fuel cell and produce combustion exhaust gas for delivery to the turbine. The supercritical CO2 cycle includes a compressor and turbine disposed on a second shaft, a supercritical CO2 fluid circuit in thermal communication with the combustor and configured to deliver CO2 to the turbine and compressor, and a heat exchanger in thermal communication with the supercritical CO2 fluid circuit and a source of cooling fluid. A mechanical linkage is configured to transfer power from the second shaft to the first shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Malcolm MacDonald
  • Patent number: 11448100
    Abstract: Provided is a combined cycle (CC) unit standby system with integrated auxiliary gas turbine generator (Aux. GT), including: a plurality of first gas turbines, a plurality of heat recovery boilers, a steam turbine, a condenser, at least a second gas turbine generator and a control unit. As such, the present invention incorporates at least a second gas turbine generator of small capacity into the CC unit standby system, the pipelines and components of each unit are kept in a hot state, to facilitate the rapid load increase during restart process, to save energy during the standby period, accelerate the restart process and reduce the energy consumption during the starting phase, and also keep the unit in “House Load Operation” state, stay independent from the power grid to cope with the emergency situation of black start, improve the restart and energy efficiency in standby and shutdown states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Jia Kai Energy Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Wein-Joe Yang
  • Patent number: 11448123
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan bypass ratio greater than 12. A speed reduction device includes a gear ratio of at least 2.6. A turbine section includes a transition duct that is located between a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine and includes fewer support struts than vanes in a first vane row of the low pressure turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Daniel Bernard Kupratis
  • Patent number: 11441774
    Abstract: A method for operating a flue gas purification system, comprising, in the flue gas purification system, equipped with a boiler which can burn oil fuel and coal fuel either simultaneously or switching therebetween, a denitration equipment having a reducing agent injector and a catalytic reactor, an inlet flue to guide flue gas discharged from the boiler to the denitration equipment, an outlet flue to guide flue gas discharged from the denitration equipment, a bypass flue which can guide flue gas from the inlet flue to the outlet flue so as to bypass the denitration equipment, and a bypass damper, opening the bypass damper and burning oil fuel in the boiler being in condition not yet suitable for coal combustion to allow the flue gas discharged from the boiler to dividedly flow to the denitration equipment and the bypass flue, switching the oil fuel to coal fuel when the boiler is in condition suitable for coal combustion to burn the coal fuel in the boiler, closing the bypass damper after switching the oil fue
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Ii, Akira Hirota, Satoru Shishido, Katsuhiro Yashiro, Hiroyuki Yoshimura, Nobuaki Shimizu