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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7204077 | Atmospheric pressure combustion turbine system Techniques suitable for recovering energy from a high-temperature gas of an ordinary pressure are provided. A turbomachine has a turbine 16 and compressors 20 and 24. A combustor 12 is disposed at a stage above the turbine 16. A po... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7051534 | Gas turbine arrangement having an integrated filter housing and compressor bleed duct Arrangement at a gas turbine installation for the generating of electricity, where inlet air filter housing, bleed air outlet and inlet for the vent air to the turbine housing are integrated into two units, an upper filter housing and a lower intermediate housing co... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7021043 | Jet engine using exhaust gas A jet engine using exhaust gas to get the propulsive force by rotating a fan within the exhaust gas burned in and emitted from the engine includes a body, a burner installed to the body to inject and burn the fuel in compressed air, a high-pressure turbine for givin... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6786034 | Flow machine and process of operation A flow machine is shown with a compressor and at least one turbine, and in which an air intake booster is arranged in an intake duct of the compressor, and an exhaust gas booster is arranged in an exhaust gas duct of the at least one turbine. In operation of the flo... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6691517 | Compound rotary internal combustion engine A turbine based engine that includes a mixture chamber, a combustion chamber, a stationary flow control barrier, and a turbine. The stationary flow control barrier is located between the combustion chamber and the turbine. The arrangement allows the syste... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6606864 | Advanced multi pressure mode gas turbine A gas turbine which is capable of operating in more than one pressure mode. The gas turbine, which may include a single fixed spool, multiple fixed spools, or a combination of fixed spool(s) and a free turbine, can operate in a positive pressure mode, a t... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6557337 | Gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine a turbine, a compressor turbine mounted downstream the turbine for rotation in a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the turbine that is mounted downstream the compressor. Exhaust fluid from the compressor turbine is coole... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6526757 | Multi pressure mode gas turbine A gas turbine which is capable of operating in more than one pressure mode. The gas turbine, which may include a single fixed spool, multiple fixed spools, or a combination of fixed spool(s) and a free turbine, can operate in a positive pressure mode, a t... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6460324 | Gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine comprising a compressor, a power turbine, a counter-rotating compressor turbine for powering the compressor and a heat exchanger interconnected among them, uses a mixer to mix waste fluid heated by the heat exchanger with combustion a... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6442945 | Gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine has a compressor, a combustor mounted downstream of the compressor, power turbine mounted downstream of the combustor, a counter-rotating compressor turbine having a temperature sensor at its outlet, a temperature control system for c... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6397576 | Gas turbine engine with exhaust compressor having outlet tap control A gas turbine engine comprising a turbine mounted downstream of a compressor and a heat exchanger interconnected between the turbine and compressor and to a heated fluid source, which is connected to a fuel source, has a compressor flow duct having a plur... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6389796 | Gas turbine system and combined plant comprising the same A gas turbine system and a combined plant including the gas turbine system provides a higher effect in realizing a high plant efficiency and reduction of NOx generation. The gas turbine system includes a compressor (1) for compressing combustion air, a co... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6370864 | Turbine engine with valve mechanism and integral combustion chamber A turbine based engine that includes a mixture chamber, a combustion chamber, a stationary flow control barrier, and a turbine. The stationary flow control barrier is located between the combustion chamber and the turbine. The arrangement allows the syste... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6363708 | Gas turbine engine A method of operating a gas turbine engine having a compressor, a combustor between a waste fluid compressor and a power turbine, a counter-rotating compressor turbine installed downstream of the power turbine, and a heat exchanger having two circuits, in... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6336316 | Heat engine A heat engine is provided that can improve thermal efficiency of a gas turbine . When gas such as air enters a compressor C101 of a gas turbine apparatus 100 (state 1), the gas becomes high-temperature gas by a combustor B102 (state 3) and moves toward a ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6298654 | Ambient pressure gas turbine system An ambient pressure gas turbine system is provided for mid-range power plants (for example, 1-4 MW) while achieving low NOx emission levels. The system includes a combustor that burns a hydrocarbon fuel at ambient pressure. A first heat exchang... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6134876 | Gas turbine engine with exhaust expander and compressor Gas turbine engines working on an inverted Brayton cycle (IBC) which provides increased power output at a same fuel flow as is currently used in some other known cycles (e.g., air bottoming cycle) are described. In one embodiment, the engine includes a co... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5632142 | Stationary gas turbine power system and related method This disclosure provides a stationary gas turbine power system that develops a reduced back pressure for the gas turbine engine and thus greater efficiency. An enclosed ejector is positioned downstream of the engine's exhaust plane, and means such as a do... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5473884 | Combined heat and power apparatus A shell steam boiler 2 comprises a furnace tube 10 having an entrance 32 which contains a gas burner 68 and also receives the hot exhaust gases from a small gas turbine 34 giving an output, on a power take off shaft 58 from a power turbine 56, of 0.5 MW o... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5444627 | Fuel delivery temperature compensation system and method of operating same An engine control is provided for compensating the fuel delivery to an internal combustion engine as a function of the energy content of the fuel. The engine control includes a fuel temperature sensor connected to an electronic controller. A memory device... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5412940 | High pressure exhaust cleaning system A method for dehydrating and cleaning high pressure gases withdrawn from within the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine including maintaining the gases at a high pressure and cooling the gases to cause condensation of water, entraining par... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5148670 | Gas turbine cogeneration apparatus for the production of domestic heat and power An apparatus for the domestic cogeneration of heat and electrical energy utilizing an inverted Brayton cycle gas turbine, a combustion chamber, an electrical generator and a compressor. Combustion air is preheated in a heat exchanger by gaseous combustion... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5088276 | Turbo-compressor engine The engine described herein is adapted for a continuous supply of compressed gases and includes a first and second compressor mounted on a common shaft with a turbine. The air which enters the engine is compressed by the first compressor and passed into a... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4732092 | Pyrolysis and combustion apparatus A system for pyrolysis and combustion of combustible solid material, such as waste, which comprises a pyrolysis chamber having a series of spaced vertically disposed movable grates, forming a plurality of stages in the pyrolysis chamber and permitting dow... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4683715 | Method of starting gas turbine plant A method of starting a gas turbine plant, which plant has at least one combustor including a primary combustion chamber into which primary fuel nozzles open and a secondary combustion chamber into which secondary fuel nozzles open, a compressor for supply... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4502277 | Turbine power plant system A turbine power plant system consisting of three sub-systems; a gas turbine sub-system, an exhaust turbine sub-system, and a steam turbine sub-system. The three turbine sub-systems use one external fuel source which is used to drive the turbine of the gas... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4055949 | Multiflow gas turbine power plant A dual-flow or multiflow gas turbine power plant comprising a jet pipe, at east two separate flow-ducts each opening into the jet pipe, namely a first flow-duct through which passes, in operation, a first gas flow and which contains a gas generator of the ... | 11/01/1977 |
| 3968647 | Multiflow gas turbine power plant A dual-flow or multiflow gas turbine power plant comprising a jet pipe, at east two separate flow-ducts each opening into the jet pipe, namely a first flow-ducts through which passes, in operation, a first gas flow and which contains a gas generator of the... | 07/13/1976 |