Added In Prime Mover Patents (Class 60/39.54)
  • Patent number: 10845104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable water dispenser for dispensing cooling water to an overheated compressor of an ACU. The water dispenser includes a splash guard and a core that is installed inside the splash guard. The core includes a magnet that firmly but temporarily attaches the water dispenser to the outer surface with the compressor. Water flow is controlled to convert the flow exiting a water hose into a uniformly distributed curtain covering the entire outer surface of the compressor. The splash guard prevents water loss because it redirects any splashes towards the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventor: Raymond Armstrong Valdez
  • Patent number: 8881499
    Abstract: Apparatus includes an ignition system that repeats an ignition cycle by providing hydrogen and oxygen and also provides a control spark with a sufficient amount of energy for igniting a combustible mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. The combustion chamber is immersed in an aqueous fluid, fills with the same or other aqueous fluid, receives the hydrogen and oxygen therein, receive the control spark to ignite the combustible mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to cause a combustion reaction to occur and form steam that yields a specific amount of heat energy, and provides the aqueous fluid from the combustion chamber in response to the substantial increase in pressure on the aqueous fluid contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Saigeworks, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy F. Dolan, William C. Henderson, IV
  • Patent number: 8720180
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes an air inlet fluidly coupleable with an air compressor subassembly. The air compressor subassembly is fluidly coupleable with a combustion subassembly. The combustion subassembly generates and combusts ionic hydrogen, and is fluidly coupleable with a mid-turbine subassembly. The mid-turbine subassembly is fluidly coupleable with a rear turbine subassembly. The rear turbine subassembly is fluidly coupleable with an exhaust outlet for exhausting combustion products from said mid-turbine subassembly. The combustion subassembly includes an electrostatic subassembly fluidly coupleable with a combustion chamber subassembly. The combustion chamber subassembly is fluidly coupleable with the mid-turbine subassembly. The air compressor subassembly can compress and humidify air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Inventor: Dirk A. Nyenhuis
  • Publication number: 20140069076
    Abstract: A gas turbine inlet fogging system using electrohydrodynamic (EHD) atomization is disclosed. In one embodiment, the inlet fogging system includes: a gas turbine system including an air inlet duct, and a plurality of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) nozzles coupled to a water supply, the plurality of EHD nozzles configured to provide a water-spray for reducing a temperature of inlet air drawn into the air inlet duct. In another embodiment, an inlet fogging system for a gas turbine system includes: a plurality of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) nozzles, and a water supply in fluid communication with the plurality of EHD nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Hua Zhang, Jianmin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8047000
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas turbine combustion chamber with a combustion chamber wall 1, with at least part of the combustion chamber wall 1 being provided with a liquid-cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Ralf Sebastian von der Bank
  • Publication number: 20110000180
    Abstract: An air compressor is driven by a steam engine that generates power using steam. The steam is supplied to the steam engine through a steam supply path, and the steam is exhausted through a steam exhaust path. The steam from the steam engine is supplied to a steam using device through a steam header. The usage load of the steam is monitored by a pressure sensor arranged in the steam header. The compressed air from the air compressor is supplied to a compressed air using device through a compressed air path. The usage load of the compressed air is monitored by a pressure sensor arranged on the compressed air path. The steam supply to the steam engine is controlled based on the usage load of the steam and the usage load of the compressed air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yuji Yoshinari, Yasuo Ochi, Hideo Furukawa, Yasukuni Tanaka, Yusuke Okamoto, Kazutaka Baba
  • Patent number: 7721552
    Abstract: A method of operating a gas turbine power plant comprising of a first gas turbine group, consisting of a compressor and a turbine which are connected mechanically with one another, and a second gas turbine group, including a combustion device, which is placed in the gas flow stream between the first group's compressor and turbine, whereby the second gas turbine group consists of a compressor, a fuel injection device, a combustion chamber and a turbine, whereby the second gas turbine group's compressor and turbine are mechanically coupled to one another and at least one of the gas turbine groups having a device for the extraction of work, whereby the fact that a first flow of water and/or steam is heated with heat from the flue gas from the first group's turbine, that further amounts of water and/or steam are heated with heat from a gas stream that is compressed by the first group's compressor, and the produced water and/or steam is injected into the gas stream in such amounts that at least 60% of the oxygen c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Euroturbine AB
    Inventors: Hans-Erik Hansson, Mats Westermark
  • Patent number: 7603863
    Abstract: A secondary combustion system for a stage one turbine nozzle. The secondary combustion system may include a supply tube extending into the stage one nozzle, a number of injectors extending from the supply tube to an outer surface of the stage one nozzle, and an air gap surrounding each of the number of injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stanley Kevin Widener, Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6502403
    Abstract: A steam-injection type gas turbine system provided with a waste-heat boiler uses surplus steam effectively for cooling the stationary blades of a turbine. The steam-injection type gas turbine system includes an air compressor (2) for compressing air, a combustor (3) for mixing a fuel with compressed air to burn the fuel, a turbine (4) driven by the energy of a combustion gas produced by the combustor (3), a waste-heat boiler (10) using an exhaust gas (G) discharged from the turbine (4) as a heat source, a steam supply system (23) for distributing steam generated by the waste-heat boiler (10) to the combustor (3), the stationary blades (68B) of the turbine (4) and external steam loads (22), and a steam distribution adjusting means (32) for preferentially supplying steam to the external steam loads (22), adjusting the rate of supply of steam to the combustor (3) and supplying the rest of the steam to the stationary blades (68B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masamoto Tazaki, Takao Sugimoto, Koji Sambonsugi
  • Patent number: 6293086
    Abstract: Power generation equipment (10) comprises a compressor (11,12) into which finely dispersed water is directed. Air compressed by the compressor (11,12) is directed into combustion equipment (13) where it is mixed with steam and fuel before combustion takes place. The resultant combustion products pass through two turbines (14,15), the second of which (15) is a power turbine. The exhaust efflux from the power turbine (15) is then cooled to such an extent that its pressure falls to below atmospheric pressure. The carbon dioxide is removed from the efflux by means of a sequestration membrane (33) before the pressure of the efflux is raised to above atmospheric pressure by a further compressor (16) driven by the power turbine (15). The equipment (10) is very efficient and produces low levels of pollution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventor: Graham A Reynolds
  • Patent number: 6263664
    Abstract: In a combined steam and gas turbine engine cycle, a combustion chamber is made durable against high pressure and enlarged in length to increase the operation pressure ratio, without exceeding the heat durability temperature of the system while increasing the fuel combustion gas mass flow four times as much as the conventional turbine system and simultaneously for greatly raising the thermal efficiency of the system and specific power of the combined steam and gas turbine engine. Water pipes and steam pipes are arranged inside the combustion chamber so that the combustion chamber can function as a heat exchanger and thereby convert most of the combustion thermal energy into super-critical steam energy for driving a steam turbine and subsequently raising the operation pressure ratio and the thermal efficiencies of the steam turbine cycle and gas turbine cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Tanigawa, Kazunaga Tanigawa