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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6502403 | Steam-injection type gas turbine 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 co... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6293086 | Power generation equipment 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... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6263664 | Combined steam and gas turbine engine with magnetic transmission 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 ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5749220 | Turbocharged RAM tornado engine with transmission and heat recovery system A turbocharged ram tornado engine coupled with a jet tornado turbine heat recovery system, a variable speed fluid transmission, and a muffler/water recovery assembly. A combustor provides a source of hot gases which are forced into a tornado form inside a... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5340274 | Integrated steam/air cooling system for gas turbines A steam or air cooled combined cycle gas turbine includes first and second turbine stages and a second nozzle stage. During start-up, cooling air is supplied radially inwardly through the second stage nozzle for flow into the gas flow through the turbine ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5317862 | Air separation In a process integration, particularly with a blast furnace, nitrogen under pressure is moisturized by the addition to it of hot, pressurized water. The moisturized nitrogen is expanded and power thereby generated. The nitrogen is not mixed with combustio... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5295351 | Air separation In a process integration, particularly with a blast furnace, low grade fuel gas produced by the furnace is compressed and moisturized. The moisturized fuel is burnt using a major part of a compressed air stream to support its combustion. The resulting com... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5253976 | Integrated steam and air cooling for combined cycle gas turbines A steam or air-cooled combined cycle gas turbine includes first and second turbine stages and a second nozzle stage disposed about a spacer between the turbine stages. Cooling steam is passed through the nozzle vanes radially inwardly and through the seal... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5243815 | Assembly of a heat exchanger on a gas turbine engine Apparatus for the compact assembly of a gas turbine engine with a recuperative exhaust gas heat exchanger wherein inlet and outlet ducts of the core of the heat exchanger are supported by support plates attached to the casing of the heat exchanger. The su... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5177954 | Gas turbine engine with cooled turbine blades A gas turbine engine that can operate at a very high efficiency over a wide range of load conditions. In one important feature of the invention, combustion gases are discharged along two paths, one with constant energy and the other with energy that varie... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5170622 | Advanced regenerative parallel compound dual fluid heat engine Advanced Cheng Cycle (ACC) A Cheng cycle, dual-fluid heat engine comprising a compressor for compressing a first working fluid, having a compressor outlet; a combustion chamber in fluid communication with the compressor outlet; a turbine having an inlet in fluid communication with ... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5160096 | Gas turbine cycle In a humid air gas turbine cycle the compressed air is humidified prior to introduction to the combustor. Compressed air before humidification is used to cool the first turbine stage rotor blades. Humidified air is used to cool the first turbine stage sta... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5074110 | Combustion engine A combustion engine comprising of a piston and cylinder assembly wherein the cylinder receives hot gasses emitted from a combustion chamber, the hot gasses being generated from the combustion of any of a variety of combustible material included but not li... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4893469 | Steam and combustion gas engine An engine utilizes a powdered biomass fuel that is ignited to heat water which is spray injected into a turbine section. The heated water converts into steam turning the turbine blades through its expansion. A combustion chamber is separate from a steam e... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4864810 | Tractor steam piston balancing A steam piston balance means for a turbine engine comprises, in one form, a pressure chamber and means for supplying steam to the chamber to apply a force to walls of the chamber. The chamber is defined, in part, by an inner surface portion of a member co... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4519206 | Multi-fuel rotary power plants using gas pistons, elliptic compressors, internally cooled thermodynamic cycles and slurry type colloidal fuel from coal and charcoal A multi-fuel rotary power plant using novel internal cooling and energy saving thermodynamic cycles, gas pistons, the unique rotary centers of the ellipse in a novel compressor and a slurry type fuel made out of colloidal carbon, hydrocarbon and other sol... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4384452 | Steam-cooled blading with steam thermal barrier for reheat gas turbine combined with steam turbine Steam-cooling with a steam thermal barrier for reheat gas turbine vanes and blades offers advantages over cooling with air or water at the higher temperatures characteristic of existing high temperature gas turbines, in particular when coupled with a rehe... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4314442 | Steam-cooled blading with steam thermal barrier for reheat gas turbine combined with steam turbine Steam-cooling with a steam thermal barrier for reheat gas turbine vanes and blades offers advantages over cooling with air or water at the higher temperatures characteristic of existing high temperature gas tubines, in particular when coupled with a rehea... | 02/09/1982 |
| 3995421 | Method of increasing the output of hydrogen combustion type internal combustion engine by recovery of generated heat and apparatus therefor This invention relates to a new method of increasing the output of a hydrogen combustion type internal combustion engine by recovery of generated heat and to an apparatus therefor. It is the main object of the invention to raise engine output by producing... | 12/07/1976 |
