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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182577 | Multi-stage CO2 removal system and method for processing a flue gas stream An ammonia based CO2 capture system and method is provided in which multiple absorption stages are provided. Each absorption stage delivers an ionic solution at a predetermined temperature and contacts it with a flue gas stream. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182210 | Heat shield segment for a stator of a gas turbine A gas turbine includes a turbine housing; a rotatable turbine rotor with turbine blades; and at least one heat shield segment for a stator. The heat shield segment is disposed radially between the rotor and the housing and attached to the housing and has a profile w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181451 | Method of controlling the operation of a selective catalytic reduction plant A method of controlling the feeding of a reducing agent, such as urea or ammonia, to a selective catalytic reduction reactor, which is operative for removing NOx from a process gas of a process plant, comprising the steps of estimating a present value of at least on... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175786 | Method for operating a gas turbine and also gas turbine for carrying out the method A method is provided for operating a gas turbine, which especially feeds power to a local isolated power supply network, and which comprises a compressor for compressing combustion air which is drawn in from the environment, a combustion chamber for combusting suppl... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168149 | Promoter enhanced chilled ammonia based system and method for removal of COfrom flue gas stream A method and system for CO2 capture from flue gas uses an absorber vessel in which a flue gas stream containing CO2 is contacted with an ammoniated solution to remove CO2 from the flue gas, and a regenerator vessel in which CO2 ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8156649 | Gas turbine hot gas component repair method A gas turbine engine hot gas component repair method for defects that do not extend through the thickness of the component is provided. First defects are removed by machining a cavity in the surface of a component. Coupons, fittable within the cavities are manufactu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153187 | Method for oxidising a thermocouple sheath A method for forming an oxygen resistant aluminum oxide layer on an outer surface of a thermocouple sheath composed of a nickel alloy containing between 1% to 7% aluminum comprises removing a pre-formed oxide layer from the outer surface so as to create a prepared s... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153054 | High-temperature alloy An iron-based high-temperature alloy is disclosed which contains the following chemical composition: 20% by weight Cr; 5 to 6% by weight Al; 4% by weight Ta; 4% by weight Mo; 3 to 4% by weight Re; 0.2% by weight Zr; 0.05% by weight B; 0.1% by weight Y; 0.1% by weigh... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152454 | Stator vane for a gas turbine engine A guide vane for a gas turbine includes a vane body having a leading edge and a trailing edge and a shroud extending at least between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The shroud has a first side wall and a second side wall extending essentially radially and i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148284 | Injection of liquid sorbent conditioning into a sorbent transporting passageway A system for effecting the pretreatment therewith of a sorbent comprising a conveying line (105), such as a pipe, and a plurality of solution nozzles operative for purposes of introducing a solution to treat the sorbent. More particularly, the conveying line ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147190 | Guide vane having hooked fastener for a gas turbine A stator vane for a gas turbine includes a vane airfoil which extends in the longitudinal direction of the vane and which is delimited by a leading edge and a trailing edge, and also an outer platform, the inner side of which is exposed to the hot gas which flows th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141591 | Plug assembly with moveable mounting members A plug assembly 10 includes a housing 14 and one or more covers 16 coupled to the housing. The plug assembly 10 includes at least one mounting plate 12a, 12b positioned between the housing 14 and the cov... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137069 | Turbine blades A cast turbine blade is disclosed and includes an internal cooling passage that passes (e.g., zig-zags or meanders) through the blade from an inlet in the blade root to an outlet in the blade tip. The cooling passage can have a zone at a bend that is at a distance w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132750 | Force monitor for pulverizer integral spring assembly A pulverizer 60 includes a spring assembly 10 that urges a grinding roller 72 of a journal assembly 68 onto a grinding surface 66 of a grinding table 64. The force applied is monitored by a load cell 32 located within... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128071 | Method and apparatus for improved gas/fluid contact A spray tower (20) for improving contact between a gas stream (22) and a fluid (24). The spray tower (20) includes a tank (26) having an inlet (32) and an outlet (34), and a plurality of spray nozzles (28) posi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122726 | Combustion chamber of a combustion system A combustion chamber of a combustion system has a combustion space, a support structure, a support element, and a heat shield. The heat shield has at least two segments, and each segment includes a liner element facing the combustion space and has an edge region, a ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122719 | Apparatus for the combustion of a fuel-oxidizer mix Apparatus for combustion of a fuel-oxidizer mixture in a combustion chamber of a turbogroup, in particular of a power plant wherein total oxidizer flow is divided into a main oxidizer flow and a secondary oxidizer flow. The main oxidizer flow is lean mixed with a ma... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120503 | Brush wear monitor having mounted flags interactable with an impedance dependent switch A worn brush monitoring system for monitoring a plurality of brushes of an electrical machine comprises a plurality of mounted flags configured to be in moveable communication relative to a wear of each of the plurality of brushes and an electrical recording circuit... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110029 | Integrated mercury control system An integrated system [1000] is described for reducing operating costs of power plants while keeping gaseous pollutants in exhaust flue gasses, such as Mercury (Hg), below acceptable limits. Controller [1800] monitors and controls operation of a scrubbe... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110012 | System for hot solids combustion and gasification In a retrofit system for hot solids combustion and gasification, a chemical looping system includes an endothermic reducer reactor 12 having at least one materials inlet 22 for introducing carbonaceous fuel and CaCO3 therein and a CaS/gas ou... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105024 | Seal in gas turbine A seal assembly for a gas turbine is arranged in grooves of a rotor heat shield having several bends. The assembly comprises four seal portions overlapping one another and extending in the axial, radial, and circumferential direction with respect to the turbine roto... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104387 | Tube stub removal apparatus An apparatus (400) for facilitating the removal of a tube stub from a drum includes an arbor (401) configured to extend within the tube stub to be removed, and a circular, rotating cutter (402) protruding from the arbor (401). The cutter ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8097059 | Exhauster bypass system An exhauster bypass system 20 receives an input flow of gases and entrained fine solid particles 15 from a pulverizer 12 and separates the input flow into a particle-deficient gas flow and a particle-laden gas flow. The particle-deficient gas fl... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093778 | Electric machine, particularly asynchronous three-phase hydrogenerator An electrical machine, in particular a three-phase asynchronous hydrogenerator, includes a rotor and a stator, wherein one of the rotor and the stator include a core with a plurality of winding slots. The machine has a winding having a plurality of axially extending... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088198 | Wet electrostatic precipitator A wet electrostatic precipitator (1) includes an inlet (2) for receiving a gas (4) containing a pollutant, and an outlet (6) for discharging therefrom the gas (8) from which said pollutant has been at least partially removed. Nozzl... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084704 | Switch for a brush wear recording circuit A switch for a brush wear monitoring recording circuit for monitoring wear of at least one brush, the switch having an open and a closed state, comprises a fixed part including a switch plate having a switch face and a moving part including a capacitive flag dispose... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8054190 | Apparatus for monitoring of brushes, in particular slipring or commutator brushes, on electrical machines An apparatus is disclosed for monitoring brushes, such as slipring or commutator brushes, on electrical machines. At least one electronic sensor is configured to be arranged in or on a brush apparatus of an electrical machine such that an electrical supply power can... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052766 | Device and method for cleaning selective catalytic reduction protective devices One embodiment described herein relates to a system for removing pollutants from a flue gas. The system includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system having a SCR reactor containing a NOx reducing catalyst and one or more SCR protective devices. A... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049393 | Rotor for an electric machine having a retaining device for the end winding A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor yoke having a plurality of axial winding slots distributed on an outer periphery of the rotor yoke; a winding bar disposed in one of the plurality of axial winding slots, the winding bar having at least one winding en... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049377 | Multi phase generator with frequency adaptation unit A hydrogen cooled generator having an axis and a plurality of phases comprises a main casing section enclosing a stator with windings; a casing end section; at least one end winding disposed in the casing end section; a toroidal duct formed on at least one of the ca... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045354 | Active generator control sequence A method for operating a matrix converter to convert n phases of a generator into alternating voltage with nr (nr | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044550 | Roebel bar for rotating electrical machines A Roebel bar for a rotating electrical machine includes a straight slot part disposed in a slot in an iron sheet of a stator of the rotating electrical machine and a bent yoke part adjacent to the straight slot part and protruding from the stator, wherein the bent y... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037763 | Rail section weld inspection scanner A rail section weld inspection device [1000] is described for inspecting a rail [10] for internal defects [19,21]. A central ultrasonic (US) probe [1330] transmits at least one US beam [B] through the rail [10] and receiving a refl... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8029273 | Burner A burner is disclosed which includes a vortex generator for a combustion air stream, means for the admission of fuel into the combustion air stream and air inlet ducts, the combustion air stream enters a vortex chamber of the vortex generator via air inlet ducts. Th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028967 | Device and method for mounting a turbine engine A device and a method for mounting a turbine engine, e.g., a gas turbine system, are described, in which a rotor unit is mounted to rotate inside a stationary external housing, having at least two supports for taking up the weight of the turbine engine, these suppor... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8021720 | Process for extending the cyclic service life of thermal barrier coatings, in particular on gas turbine components A process for extending the cyclic service life of thermal barrier coatings made of yttrium-stabilized zirconium oxide (YSZ) or the like which have been applied to a substrate with an oxidizing bond coat in between includes increasing or long-term stabilizing the st... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8006498 | Combustion chamber of a combustion system A combustion chamber of a combustion system comprises a combustion space, a support structure, a heat shield, and at least one through-opening. The heat shield has at least two segments, and each segment has an edge region, a gap communicating with the combustion sp... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006381 | Method of modifying an existing casting mold for a turbine moving blade A method of modifying an existing casting mold for a turbine moving blade having a shroud band segment with an initial coupling geometry for coupling with a further shroud band segment, the coupling geometry having an initial coupling angle of the shroud band segmen... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7997896 | Premix burner with staged liquid fuel supply and also method for operating a premix burner A premix burner with staged liquid fuel supply is described having at least two partial cone shells which on the radial side form the boundary of a swirl chamber which axialwards conically widens, which partial cone shells are arranged in a partially overlapping man... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7994667 | Fan cooling of an electric engine An air cooling arrangement for an electric engine comprises a rotor, a stator disposed co-axially on the rotor, and a partition disposed between the rotor and the stator and extending along a complete axial length of the rotor and mounted on the rotor so as to be in... | 08/09/2011 |
