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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001788 | Method and apparatus for preparing pulverized coal used to produce synthesis gas A method and apparatus for preparing pulverized coal used in the production of synthesis gas combusted in gas turbines used in integrated gasification combined cycle power plants uses gas turbine exhaust gas to dry and convey pulverized coal from a pulverizer to a c... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7412947 | Internal combustion engine system with hydrogen generation capability A dehydrogenated fuel tank 32 which is replenished with an organic hydride-contained hydrogenated fuel and a gasoline tank 48 which is replenished with normal gasoline are provided. In order to separate the hydrogenated fuel into a hydrogen rich gas an... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7396228 | Fuel gas calorie control method and device Calories of a first mixed gas are predicted by calculations based on the mixed flow rate of a blast furnace gas and the mixed flow rate of a converter gas measured by flow meters, and preset blast furnace gas calories and converter gas calories; the flow rate ratio ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7334391 | Electric power supply equipment An electric power supply system capable of maintaining stable power generation or the like regardless of variation in the amount of fuel gas being supplied and variation in the gas calorie, comprises a gas engine, a gas turbine, a suction device configured to collec... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7284362 | Integrated air separation and oxygen fired power generation system An integrated air separation and oxygen fired power generation system includes an air separation unit and a gas turbine including an air compressor to provide compressed air for the air separation unit. The system further includes a gas turbine expander and at least... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272932 | System and method of use of expansion engine to increase overall fuel efficiency A system of increasing overall fuel efficiency of a facility including a gas expansion engine for receiving a supply of pressurized gas of a first pressure and first temperature and outputting a tail gas of a second lower temperature and lower pressure. The expansio... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272934 | System integration of a steam reformer and gas turbine A novel process and apparatus for power generation from biomass and other carbonaceous feedstocks are provided. The process integrates a pulse combustor steam reformer with a gas turbine to generate electricity such that (i) efficiency is higher than those of conven... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7169211 | Fumes treating process with energy recovery The fumes from gas turbine TG are cooled by heat exchangers E1, E2, E01, E02 and E03 and compressed by compressors C1 and C2. The cold and high-pressure fumes are depleted in carbon dioxide in treating plant 10... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7140187 | Urea based composition and system for same A method and apparatus for generating energy from a composition comprising urea and water are described. The method in one embodiment includes: (a) reacting the urea with water to form ammonia; and (b) oxidizing the ammonia formed in step (a) to form water and nitro... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7124586 | Individual cogeneration plant and local network The invention concerns a cogeneration plant preferably using a compressor-alternator unit equipped with a thermal heater operating independently, by drawing compressed air supplied by one or several compression stages, which is then heated to increase its temperatur... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7100356 | Heat recovery apparatus with aerodynamic diffusers A sound attenuating duct unit suitable for connection to an outlet of a gas turbine and an improved heat recovery apparatus for use with such a turbine are disclosed. The former unit includes a duct housing having exterior sides, an air inlet at one end and first an... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089745 | System for vaporization of liquid fuels for combustion and method of use A gas stream with a reduced oxygen concentration relative to ambient air is used to vaporize a liquid fuel or liquified higher hydrocarbon gas, or is mixed with a vaporized gas, and the reduced oxygen vaporized fuel gas is fed to a combustion device such as a premix... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7033631 | Apparatus and method for declustering cherries An apparatus and method for declustering cherries, including a plurality of oscillating cutting modules (36), each having a power driven shaft (40) with a plurality of circular blades (42) fixed along its length. The modules further comprise cut... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024796 | Process and apparatus for manufacture of fertilizer products from manure and sewage This invention discloses systems and methods for conversion of manure to novel fertilizer and/or soil builder products useful as input for organic farming operations. The equipment systems comprise a gas turbine generator unit (preferred heat source), a dryer vessel... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7008460 | Process for the production thermally converted light products and electricity Process for the production of thermally converted light products from residual feedstock and electricity from syngas obtained from thermal conversion residue as feedstock, in which process flue gas exiting from the electricity producing unit is fed through a heat re... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6976362 | Integrated Fischer-Tropsch and power production plant with low CO2 emissions A plant for producing Fischer-Tropsch liquids and electrical power with greatly reduced emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is made up of a syngas generator unit, an air separation unit, a Fischer-Tropsch unit, a CO2 removal unit, and a combined... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6966190 | Combined cycle for generating electric power A combined cycle process that includes gas turbines, a steam turbine train, a heat recovery unit, and a gasification unit that produces low or mid BTU fuel gas from coal, lignite, coke, biomass, or other suitable hydrocarbon containing material wherein the fuel gas ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6957539 | Power generator with low CO2 emissions and associated method The invention relates to a method for decreasing the level of carbon dioxide present in the fumes discharged by a power generator burning a mixture of a combustive agent and of a fuel containing hydrocarbons, wherein a gaseous mixture comprising at least part of sai... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6948318 | Method and installation for feeding an air separation plant with a gas turbine The invention concerns a method involving the intake (through 16) of air in an intake of an air separation plant (14), supplying (though 16) at least a fraction of the intake air from a gas turbine compressor section (2), and extracting f... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6938423 | Method for convertion of heat A method for conversion of heat in hot flue gases, vaporisation heat in the flue gases being released and converted into an energy carrier which converts from the liquid phase to gas phase. ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6923004 | System integration of a steam reformer and gas turbine A novel process and apparatus for power generation from biomass and other carbonaceous feedstocks are provided. The process integrates a pulse combustor steam reformer with a gas turbine to generate electricity such that (i) efficiency is higher than those of conven... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924399 | Method of manufacturing dimethyl ether Dimethyl ether is obtained with at low cost by transporting methanol under room temperature and atmospheric pressure from the methanol producing district to the dimethyl ether consuming district or its neighboring district by converting the raw material containing t... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6915661 | Integrated air separation process and apparatus In a process for separating air in a system comprising a gas turbine, including a compressor (1), a combustor (5) and an expander (17), said expander being coupled to the compressor, a natural gas conversion unit (23) and an air separatio... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6902593 | Separation device to remove fine particles A multi-cyclone gas/solids separator with reduced solids re-entrainment is disclosed. The separator uses a plurality of cyclones spaced horizontally apart from adjacent cyclones to process flue gas containing residual catalyst fines. Each cyclone has a body that has... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6889506 | Gas and steam turbine installation A gas and steam turbine installation including a gasification device for fossile fuel. The gasification device and the combustion chamber of the gas turbine are connected by a gas line. A gas lock is connected to the gas line. The gas lock includes a quick acting ar... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6877322 | Advanced hybrid coal gasification cycle utilizing a recycled working fluid A power generating system having a hybrid gasification cycle, in which CO2 is recycled to a gasifier to be used as a gasification reactant and working fluid. The power generating system includes a source of fresh, pure oxygen, a gasifier, a particle separ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6745573 | Integrated air separation and power generation process An integrated air separation and power generation process produces an O2-enriched gas stream and an N2-enriched gas stream in an air separation unit. The O2-enriched gas stream is introduced with fuel and steam to a combustor, produc... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6711903 | Integrated electric power and synthetic fuel plant A power plant generates electricity from carbonaceous material and fuel provided by a syngas plant such that clean electric power is generated and flue gas emissions are minimized. The syngas plant produces liquid fuel and unreacted syngas in a Fischer-Tropsch react... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6547188 | Process and device for inerting an aircraft fuel tank There is produced (at 2) air enriched in inert gas, from a source (9) of compressed air internal to the aircraft, and this enriched air is admitted (via 10) into the fuel tank (12). During the cruising phase of the aircraft, there is produced a first frac... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6519945 | Method for controlling nitrogen injection into gas turbine A nitrogen compressor in an IGCC (integrated gasification, combined cycle) system provides gaseous nitrogen to be directly injected into the combustor of a gas turbine in the IGCC. The nitrogen is injected at substantially the same pressure as the output ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6432368 | Staged catalytic ammonia decomposition in integrated gasification combined cycle systems The ammonia content of fuel gas in an IGCC power generation system is reduced through ammonia decomposition, thereby reducing the NOx emissions from the plant. The power generation system includes a gasifier, a gas turbine and at least one cata... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430914 | Combined cycle power generation plant and method of operating such a plant A combined cycle power generation plant includes a boiler for producing steam, the boiler including a furnace for combusting first fuel to produce flue gas, a back-pass for receiving the produced flue gas and a flue gas duct for passing the flue gas from ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6393821 | Method for collection and use of low-level methane emissions A building structure encloses a gaseous mixture of air and a combustible fuel. Air is obtained from the atmosphere, and the gaseous fuel is obtained from natural evolution and diffusion processes associated with rotting of materials, as from landfills, an... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6345493 | Air separation process and system with gas turbine drivers An integrated gas turbine and air separation process and system having an air separation unit integrated with a gas turbine-driven air compression system which operates using fuel as the primary energy source. Feed air for the air separation unit is provi... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6314715 | Modified fuel gas turbo-expander for oxygen blown gasifiers and related method In a power generating plant including a gas turbine which utilizes fuel gas from an oxygen blown gasifier for combustion at a predetermined pressure to drive a primary load, and where the fuel gas is supplied from the gasifier at a pressure higher than th... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6298645 | Universal fruit-picking tool A universal fruit-picking tool including a cage of a generally elliptical spheroid shape having a three-dimensional triangular opening in its upper half fitted with four cutters. Each cutter has a V-shaped gathering and cutting slot of unique design. The ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6216436 | Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant with kalina bottoming cycle An integrated gasification combined cycle plant is combined with a Kalina bottoming cycle. High thermal energy streams 31, 69, 169 from the gasification system are provided in heat exchange relation with the two component working fluid mixture at appropri... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6148602 | Solid-fueled power generation system with carbon dioxide sequestration and method therefor A method of generating power with sequestration of carbon-dioxide emission includes compressing ambient air, separating substantially pure oxygen from the ambient air and then further compressing the substantially pure oxygen separated from the ambient ai... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148599 | Process and apparatus for gasifying solid carbonaceous material having a high moisture content A process and apparatus for gasifying high moisture content carbonaceous material by introducing a solid first carbonaceous material (1) into at least one pressurized drier vessel (2), the first carbonaceous material having a moisture content above about ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6032456 | Power generating gasification cycle employing first and second heat exchangers An improved combined power generation cycle has been provided for electric power generation from gasified solid fuel such as coal or biomass. The power cycle provided by the present invention does not require the use of high-temperature particulate contro... | 03/07/2000 |
