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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493766 | Auxiliary electrical power generation An auxiliary electrical power supply includes a fuel combustor passively sourced with fuel for combusting fuel and a thermoelectric generator close-coupled to the combustor for converting the heat from the combustor to electric power. ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7363756 | Method for combustion of a fuel In a method for the combustion of a fuel, a fuel or a premixed combustible mixture is introduced into a combustion space as a combustible fluid open jet. The velocity of the open jet is selected in such a way that it is impossible for a stable flame front to form, i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7171813 | Fuel injection nozzle for gas turbine combustor, gas turbine combustor, and gas turbine A fuel injection nozzle has a cylindrical nozzle body having a cavity where fuel passes through. A plurality of hollow spokes, each having an aerofoil cross section, are provided around the nozzle body. Each hollow spoke has four fuel injection holes in total on bot... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7127897 | Combustion chamber A combustion chamber 10 for a gas turbine operates in a highly diluted mode of combustion has a substantially toroidal plenum 30. At least one combustion fluid injector is located at the periphery of the plenum. The shape of the plenum and the disposit... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7114322 | Gas-turbine power generating installation and method of operating the same A gas-turbine power generating installation capable of effectively utilizing gases produced in overage gas fields, etc. and a method of operating the installation are provided. The gas-turbine power generating installation is installed in the vicinity of an outrage ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7101514 | Control devices for evaporative chemical mixing/reaction An improved chemical mixing micro-device with features on the micro- and nano-scale. The micro-device is comprised of at least one chemical inlet port and one chemical outlet port, a micro-evaporator, a micro-chamber and a micro-initiator. Also, a method of mixing a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7080513 | Seal element for sealing a gap and combustion turbine having a seal element The invention pertains to a seal element for sealing a gap, in particular within a turbo-machinery, between a first component and a second components spaced apart from each other, said first component having a first surface and said second component having an opposi... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7047893 | Pollution abatement incinerator system As taught herein, an incinerator system that directly eliminates the undesirable and harmful pollution of any gases vented or exhausted to open air. The system utilizes a fuel injector system that is used to dispense gaseous or atomized fuel of almost any type and i... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047723 | Apparatus and method for reducing the heat rate of a gas turbine powerplant The present invention provides an apparatus and method for reducing the pressure loss of air prior to entering a combustion system, such that, for a known combustion system having a predetermined pressure loss, the resulting fluid entering the turbine has a higher s... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047722 | Small scale hybrid engine (SSHE) utilizing fossil fuels This invention describes a miniaturized hybrid diesel-electric engine formed by a closed-loop system powered by plasma-aided combustion of JP-8 fuel (or other hydrocarbon fuels) working in tandem with a vapor cycle utilizing miniaturized expanders and condensers. Th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040096 | Methods and apparatus for supplying feed air to turbine combustors A method enables a gas turbine engine to be assembled. The method includes providing a combustor including a liner that defines a combustion chamber therein, and coupling a casing within the gas turbine engine to extend circumferentially around the combustor liner, ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036318 | Gas turbine electric powerplant A gas turbine electric powerplant, preferably driven by an aeroderivative turbine engine of split shaft design. The gas turbine engine is coupled to a speed reducer, which is in turn coupled to an electric generator. An engine mount is provided that ensures that the... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7007475 | Conical helical of spiral combustor scroll device in gas turbine engine A conical helical design for a turbine combustor scroll utilizes as much cavity of the combustor housing as possible by adding an axial shift and an irregular cross sectional shape in the scroll without adversely effecting aerodynamic performance. The axial shift re... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6983599 | Combustor member and method for making a combustor assembly A turbine engine combustor member, for example a deflector including an inner surface at a combustor interior and an outer surface away from such interior includes a body of a high temperature alloy having properties combining resistance to hot corrosion in March=1 ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6966186 | Non-catalytic combustor for reducing NOx emissions A gas turbine engine combustor (26) including a primary combustion chamber (28), a mixer element (34), a mixing chamber (46) and a secondary combustion chamber (48). The primary combustion chamber receives a fuel oxidizer mixture f... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6948320 | Expansion turbine stage An expansion turbine stage for compressed gases has a housing and a turbine rotor. The housing has flow guide channels for feeding the compressed gas to the turbine rotor. The turbine rotor, which is over-mounted and has centripetal flow through it, is followed by a... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941217 | Microprocessor-based control system for gas turbine electric powerplant A microprocessor-based control system for a gas turbine electrical powerplant. the microprocessor-based control system controls the startup, operation, and shutdown of the gas turbine electric powerplant. The microprocessor-based control system of the present invent... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6925808 | Combustion chamber with a closed cooling system for a turbine In order to develop a combustion chamber with a closed cooling system for a turbine with an inner wall and an outer wall (1) bounding the combustion area, wherein there is an intermediate space between the inner wall and the outer wall (1) through whic... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6902373 | Sheet metal exhaust adapter for draft inducers An exhaust adapter for use with a draft inducer having a blower housing with a rectangular blower outlet. The exhaust adapter provides a transition from the rectangular outlet of the blower housing and a round exhaust pipe. The exhaust adapter includes a transition ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6775983 | Flow control device for a combustor A flow control device for a combustor is provided in which the flow control device comprises a shroud having a first end and a second end wherein the second end is coupled to the combustor. The shroud is disposed to receive a primary fluid and disposed to direct the... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6594999 | Combustor, a gas turbine, and a jet engine A combustor can simultaneously reduce the amount of NOx exhaust and combustion oscillation. The combustor has an internal cylinder which accommodates a premixing nozzle and an external cylinder which accommodates the internal cylinder, and includes an air... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6360524 | Oxygen separator designed to be integrated with a gas turbine and method of separating oxygen An oxygen separator and method for separating oxygen from a heated oxygen containing gas that employs oxygen-selective ceramic membranes of elongated, tubular configuration within a duct for separation of oxygen from a heated gas. The duct can be attached... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6347507 | Method and apparatus for power generation using rotating ramjets A novel, improved method and apparatus for generation of mechanical and electrical power. Thrust module(s) is(are) provided on a low aerodynamic drag rotor. The rotor is affixed at a central hub to a shaft, and rotates about an axis defined by the shaft. ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6161374 | Transportation propulsion system A gas turbine engine (8) has a plurality of gas generators (28, 30, 32, 34) which generate and cool pressurized gas streams (38, 40) that are combined in a high efficiency topping cycle in a wave rotor convertor (36). The output of the wave rotor converto... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6006523 | Gas turbine combustor with angled tube section A combustor inner tube 102 or a burner 101 provided on the upstream side of a tail pipe 103 having a straight or substantially straight axis is disposed at an angle with respect to the axis of tail pipe 103, by which a secondary flow is produced in combus... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5983641 | Tail pipe of gas turbine combustor and gas turbine combustor having the same tail pipe In a tail pipe of gas turbine combustor, the portion just in front of the outlet 104 of tail pipe of gas turbine combustor has a shape such as to be inclined with respect to the axial direction so that the direction changes from the rearward direction to ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5941060 | Gas turbine having sequential combustion In a gas turbine having sequential combustion and two combustion chambers and in each case associated turbines, a secondary guide row (6a-c) formed in an annular transition duct (1) is arranged on the downstream side of the first turbine before entry into... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5921075 | Burner replacing system A burner replacing system has a rail mounted in a ring around the outer periphery of burners mounted radially at the middle of a gas turbine. A carriage turns around the burners via the rail; and supports a pull-out slide via a rotary shaft which turns th... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5918465 | Flow guiding body for a gas turbine combustion chamber A flow-guiding body is designed as a pointed, substantially conical molded shell. The projection of its base surface is formed by a straight line and by a curve that interconnects the ends of the straight line. The curve forms no significant angles. The m... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5911680 | Mounting/demounting device for combustor for use in gas turbine In a gas turbine that is equipped, on a casing (100) thereof, with a plurality of combustors (1) in the circumferential direction thereof, there is provided a rail (4) which is supported on a rail receiving stand (3) that is movable on the ground and whic... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5761898 | Transition piece external frame support A transition piece for connection between a gas turbine combustor and a stage of the gas turbine, the transition piece being generally tubular and having an upstream end for connection to the gas turbine combustor and a downstream or aft end for connectio... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5704210 | Intercooled supercharged gas generator engine A gas generation engine having improved fuel economy and performance comprises a gas generator in the form of a supercharged internal combustion engine coupled to an expander in the form of a gas turbine. The exhaust produced by the internal combustion en... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5465577 | Gas turbine combustion chamber In a gas turbine combustion chamber, which consists of an inlet zone (1) with injection, an ignition delay zone (2), a reaction zone (3), a burn-out zone (4) and a transition zone (5) to the turbine, the reaction zone (3) has a cross-section which increas... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5426943 | Gas turbine combustion chamber In a gas turbine combustion chamber (1)--having environment-friendly burners (5) which consist of at least two hollow partial conical bodies which are positioned one upon the other in the flow direction and whose longitudinal axes of symmetry extend radia... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5414999 | Integral aft frame mount for a gas turbine combustor transition piece A transition piece (110) for a gas turbine comprising a tubular body having an upstream end (112) and a downstream end (114), the downstream end (114) formed with an integral frame (116) surrounding an opening at the downstream end; and an aft mount conne... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5381663 | Liquid fuel power plant A liquid fuel power plant (100) including an open-ended combustion chamber (102) and a first mechanism (112) for delivering a combustible fuel to the open-ended combustion chamber (102). A second mechanism (136) is included for igniting the fuel in the op... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5337567 | Liquid fuel power plant and method A liquid fuel power plant (100) including an open-ended combustion chamber (102) and a first mechanism (112) for delivering a combustible liquid fuel to the open-ended combustion chamber (102). A second mechanism (136) is included for igniting the fuel in... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5333458 | Liquid fuel power plant A liquid fuel power plant (100) including an open-ended combustion chamber (102) and a first mechanism (110) for delivering a combustible fuel to the open-ended combustion chamber (102). A second mechanism (136) is included for igniting the fuel in the op... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5317865 | Gas generating apparatus An improved gas generator apparatus having a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine having a turbine rotor coupled by a rotor shaft to the compressor rotor of the compressor. The combustor is spiral shaped and positioned between the compressor and turbine... | 06/07/1994 |
