Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7163666 | Thermally tolerant support structure for a catalytic combustion catalyst The present invention provides a support structure for a catalyst disposed within an outer containment. Several unique arrangements and connections of supporting struts that form the structure provide a number of significant advantages and improvements. The support ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7121097 | Control strategy for flexible catalytic combustion system A control system for a catalytic combustion system on a gas turbine includes a flame preburner, a fuel injector positioned downstream of the preburner and a catalyst positioned downstream of the fuel injector. In such systems, a portion of the fuel combusts within t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7096671 | Catalytic combustion system and method Aspects according to the invention relate to a catalytic combustor system for a turbine engine and an associated method. Catalytic combustors are used in connection with turbine engines because they can minimize the formation of oxides of nitrogen during combustion.... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093438 | Multiple venture tube gas fuel injector for a combustor A gas fuel injector includes a first header plate; a second header plate spaced downstream from the upstream header plate; and a plurality of venturi tubes arranged in rows and sealably secured to the first and second header plates. Each of the venturi tubes include... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086235 | Cascade ignition of catalytic combustors The present embodiment relates to a catalytic combustor for reducing the pollutant emissions of combustion. The catalytic combustor described herein employs a novel heat exchange system for rapidly and economically bringing the combustor to a temperature wherein cat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7007478 | Multi-venturi tube fuel injector for a gas turbine combustor A combustor for a gas turbine includes a main fuel injector for receiving compressor discharge air and mixing the air with fuel for flow to a downstream catalytic section. The main fuel injector includes an array of venturis each having an inlet, a throat and a diff... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003958 | Multi-sided diffuser for a venturi in a fuel injector for a gas turbine A combustor for a gas turbine includes a main fuel injector for receiving compressor discharge air and mixing the air with fuel for flow to a downstream catalytic section. The main fuel injector includes an array of venturis each having an inlet, a throat and a diff... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6983600 | Multi-venturi tube fuel injector for gas turbine combustors A combustor for a gas turbine includes a main fuel injector for receiving compressor discharge air and mixing the air with fuel for flow to a downstream catalytic section. The main fuel injector includes an array of venturis each having an inlet, a throat and a diff... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6923001 | Pilotless catalytic combustor A pilotless catalytic combustor (10) including a basket (12) having a central axis (14) and a central core region (16) disposed along a portion of the central axis. Catalytic combustion modules (18) are circumferentially disposed a... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6446426 | Miniature pulsed heat source A miniature heat source capable of being used in a hand-held device for delivering a metered pulse of fuel to a combustion chamber where it is converted into a pulsed amount of heat. For example, the heat source apparatus can be used in a hand-held cigare... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6272846 | Reduced toxicity fuel satellite propulsion system A reduced toxicity fuel satellite propulsion system including a reduced toxicity propellant supply (10) for consumption in an axial class thruster (14) and an ACS class thruster (16). The system includes suitable valves and conduits (22) for supplying the... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6095793 | Dynamic control system and method for catalytic combustion process and gas turbine engine utilizing same A unique and useful dynamic control system has been invented for the control of a catalytic combustion system for use on a dynamic plant, preferably, a gas turbine engine. The dynamic control system facilitates the replacement of conventional flame combus... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5950434 | Burner, particularly for a gas turbine, with catalytically induced combustion A gas turbine and a burner to be used for all gas turbines for the catalytically induced combustion of a fuel, include a flow duct and a main burner having a fuel outlet. A catalytic supporting burner has a fuel outlet in the flow duct upstream of the fue... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5720163 | Torch assembly The conventional gas turbine combustor is improved by mounting a pilot flame producing torch in a wall of the combustor to project a flame into the combustor as a means of ignition. The torch preferably is a catalytic igniter which will operate over a wid... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5660043 | Torch assembly The conventional gas turbine combustor is improved by mounting a pilot flame producing torch in a wall of the combustor to project a flame into the combustor as a means of ignition. The torch preferably is a catalytic igniter which will operate over a wid... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5636511 | Torch assembly The conventional gas turbine combustor is improved by mounting a pilot flame producing torch in a wall of the combustor to project a flame into the combustor as a means of ignition. The torch preferably is a catalytic igniter which will operate over a wid... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5577906 | Catalyst for combustion A combustion catalyst is disclosed which is composed of a durable support containing a plurality of mutually partitioned and independent combustion gas flow paths and an active catalyst formed mainly of palladium and/or palladium oxide and deposited in th... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5569020 | Method and device for operating a premixing burner In a method of operating a low-pollution premixing burner (2) stabilized by means of vortex breakdown, in particular a burner of the double-cone type of construction, with gaseous fuels (4, 10), the main fuel gas (4) being fed to the burner (2) via a main... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5531066 | Fuel injector and igniter assembly An assembly for the catalytic ignition of atomized fuel for combustion within the combustion chamber of a turbine engine places the catalytic fuel igniter in a position to receive the atomized fuel upon entry into the combustion chamber. The igniter is he... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5313785 | Dynamic pressure machine A dynamic pressure machine with integrated combustion has a cellular wheel containing a number of cells, in which a continuously recurring ignition and combustion process takes place. Neither energy supply from the outside nor a control action should be r... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5228847 | Catalytic combustion process A combustion process, e.g. for a gas turbine, comprises catalytically combusting part of a fuel/air feed in a preliminary catalyst body which has through passages and supports, or is composed of, a catalyst active for the combustion of the fuel. The resul... | 07/20/1993 |
| 4825658 | Fuel nozzle with catalytic glow plug In a gas turbine power plant fuel and air are mixed and ignited in a combustor to provide motive fluid for driving a gas turbine. A fuel nozzle is used to provide a fuel/air mixture into the combustor. According to the present invention, the fuel nozzle a... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4603547 | Catalytic relight coating for gas turbine combustion chamber and method of application A construction of a gas turbine combustion chamber which facilitates relighting the fuel immediately after flame-out. The construction comprises a catalytic coating on the combustor wall, preferably with areas left uncoated to allow the flame to propagate... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4583361 | Heater protection of thrusters A thruster (10) including a heater (65) remote from the location of propellant decomposition, includes a means such as a thermal diode heat pipe for conducting heat unidirectionally, from the heater to the decomposition location, extending the useful life... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4455822 | Device to ignite fuel injected in a rapidly flowing gaseous medium An open ended enclosure has a tubular conduit extending axially within it d is provided with both an electric spark plug and a catalytic ignition member in the annular region of the enclosure outside the tubular conduit.... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4402662 | Thermal shock resistant split-cylinder structures Thermal shock resistant catalytic monolithic structures are described comprising split-cylinders with flow-through passages. Such structures are especially useful as combustor catalysts and their use in catalytic combustors permits much more rapid start-u... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4384843 | Combustion method and apparatus with catalytic tubes A thermal shock resistant catalytic combustor has a plurality of catalytic tubes of a high temperature catalytically active ceramic mounted such that the ceramic is free to expand or contract. Ends of the tubes can be maintained at any desired temperature... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4065917 | Method of starting a combustion system utilizing a catalyst A method and system are provided for starting a combustion system utilizing a catalyst, and at the same time provide low emissions of unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide.The method is particularly applicable to starting such combustion systems which... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4040252 | Catalytic premixing combustor This disclosure sets forth a combustion device for a power plant wherein a burner includes a central tubular section with an annular section located therearound. Air inlet means directs air to the burner. The central section comprises a premixing chamber ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4027476 | Composite catalyst bed and method for making the same A composite catalyst bed comprising a foam metal matrix packed with a plurality of catalyst particles. The foam metal matrix is a three dimensional, structurally rigid network of interconnected ligaments which define a plurality of interconnected pores fi... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4019316 | Method of starting a combustion system utilizing a catalyst A method and system are provided for starting a combustion system utilizing a catalyst, and at the same time provide low emissions of unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. The method is particularly applicable to starting such combustion systems whic... | 04/26/1977 |
| 3975900 | Method and apparatus for turbine system combustor temperature A method and apparatus for operating a gas turbine system are disclosed utilizing an adiabatic combustion process, employing combustion of a pre-mixed carbonaceous fuel-air admixture in a combustion zone. The combustion and the combustion zone are maintai... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3958538 | Gaseous ignition system for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine comprising a gaseous ignition system which employs a high temperature and high pressure gaseous mixture obtained by decomposing hydrogen peroxide.... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3943705 | Wide range catalytic combustor A catalytic combustor arrangement for use with a gas turbine power plant, has independently regulatable fuel injection elements disposed upstream of a discrete array of passageways disposed between the fuel injection elements and a catalytic reaction memb... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3938326 | Catalytic combustor having a variable temperature profile A catalytic combustor has an array of fuel injectors and air inductor elements, upstream of a catalytic member in the combustor. Each fuel injector and air inductor arrangement is associated with a discrete passageway confining the air/fuel mixture to a p... | 02/17/1976 |
