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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7762072 | Combustion systems with rotary fuel slingers A combustion system includes a fuel manifold adapted to receive a flow of fuel from a fuel source, the fuel manifold including at least one orifice from which the received fuel is discharged. The combustion system further includes a rotary fuel slinger disposed adja... | 07/27/2010 |
| 6988367 | Gas turbine engine cooling system and method Fuel supplied to a rotary fluid trap is centrifugally accelerated within a first cavity adjacent a first side of a rotor, and is then directed though a plurality of first passages extending through the rotor between and proximate to the blades, and shaped so as to a... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6543232 | Valve assembly for use in a gas fuel nozzle A valve assembly that is useful for controlling fuel delivery utilizes turbine power available from the steady state fuel flow within the valve assembly. A turbine element, which is moved by the steady state fuel flow, provides a motive force to a valve e... | 04/08/2003 |
| 5022228 | Over the shaft fuel pumping system A large flow of high pressure fuel is supplied to a gas turbine engine by mounting a small modified vortex pump over or around a main high speed shaft. The pump includes a plurality of short, stubby impeller blades rotating at a very high speed within a f... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5003766 | Gas turbine engine 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... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4989411 | Over the shaft fuel pumping system A large flow of high pressure fuel is supplied to a gas turbine engine by mounting a small modified vortex pump over or around a main high speed shaft. The pump includes a plurality of short, stubby impeller blades rotating at a very high speed within a f... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4845941 | Gas turbine engine operating process The process of increasing the efficiency and output of a gas-turbine having blades in a combustion chamber which includes cooling the gas-turbine blades with a liquid-fuel and mixing the fuel used for cooling with air in the combustion chamber and burning... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4478045 | Combustors and gas turbine engines employing same Combustors [22] which employ such features as rotary cup fuel atomizers and the latter in conjuction with CIVIC combustion to enhance flame performance, to produce efficient combustion over a wide operating range, and to eliminate the problems typically e... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4343148 | Liquid fueled combustors with rotary cup atomizers Combustion systems which employ such features as rotary cup fuel atomizers and the latter in conjunction with CIVIC combustion to enhance flame performance, to produce efficient combustion over a wide operating range, and to eliminate the problems typical... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4343147 | Combustors and combustion systems Combustion systems which employ such features as rotary cup fuel atomizers and the latter in conjunction with CIVIC combustion to enhance flame performance, to produce efficient combustion over a wide operating range, and to eliminate the problems typical... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4338782 | Gas turbine combustion system utilizing renewable and non-critical solid fuels with residue remover to minimize environmental pollution Pressurized communited solid fuel particles are mechanically reground in a fuel injector prior to being radially injected in a swirling motion into a combustor where the fuel is mixed with oxidizing fluid in a swirling motion that is opposite to the swirl... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4045159 | Combustion apparatus A combustion apparatus having a mixing chamber, a combustion chamber, a flame holes plate disposed therebetween for forming a combustion flame at a flame projecting aperture thereof, a choke plate on the mixing chamber side of the flame holes plate in con... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4008039 | Low emission burners and control systems therefor A burner for Rankine cycle engines which includes a combustor of the rotating atomizer type and a control system therefor which keeps the ratio of fuel and air supplied to the combustor at an optimum over a wide range of operation to maximize efficiency a... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3933133 | Rotating cup fuel injector An improved fuel injector for a turbine, the injector comprising a conical cup adapted to be rotated and a means for depositing fuel on the internal surface of the cup. When the cup is rotated the fuel is caused to be spread uniformly over the internal su... | 01/20/1976 |
