221 |
Vehicular power plant |
US37366164 |
1964-06-09 |
US3339663A |
1967-09-05 |
ANDERSON JAMES H |
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222 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MACHINERY STRESS VIA TEMPERATURE TRAJECTORY |
US15426649 |
2017-02-07 |
US20180223697A1 |
2018-08-09 |
Benjamin David Laskowski; William Forrester Seely |
A method includes determining, via a processor, a commanded temperature rate for a component of a steam turbine system. The method further includes determining, via the processor, a measured temperature rate for the component of the steam turbine system. The method additionally includes determining, via the processor, a variable multiplier based at least in part on the commanded temperature rate and the measured temperature rate. The method also includes deriving, via the processor, a multiplied temperature rate command by applying the variable multiplier to the commanded temperature rate. |
223 |
Process and method using low temperature sources to produce electric power and desalinate water |
US15053802 |
2016-02-25 |
US09816400B1 |
2017-11-14 |
Calvin Eugene Phelps, Sr. |
A unique method and ternary cycle process that captures heat from low temperature sources currently considered not commercially usable to produce electricity and desalinate water. In one cycle a novel flash tower operating at vacuum pressure causes a fraction of low temperature water to flash into steam. The steam passes to an indirect heat exchanger with a circulating refrigerating agent such as CO2, which condenses the steam on its outside surfaces to produce desalinated water product. The steam heat of condensation vaporizes the refrigerating agent, which is part of a binary refrigerate cycle that uniquely conditions it for turbine expansion to produce electricity in a connected electric generator. |
224 |
Chain drag system for treatment of carbaneous waste feedstock and method for the use thereof |
US14457541 |
2014-08-12 |
US09795940B2 |
2017-10-24 |
Landon C. G. Miller; Scott Behrens; Brian Rayles |
A drag chain carbonizer is provided with a system and methods for anaerobic thermal transformation processing to convert waste into various solid carbonized products and varied further co-products. The drag-chain carbonizer includes an adjustable bed depth mechanism, a heating mechanism, a pressure management mechanism, and a chain tensioning mechanism containing at least one position sensor for communication of an actuator position to at least one programmable logic controller (PLC). Carbonaceous waste is transformed into useful co-products that can be re-introduced into the stream of commerce at various economically advantageous points. Depending upon the input materials and the parameters selected to process the waste, including real time economic and other market parameters, the system adjusts co-products output to reflect changing market conditions. |
225 |
Multi-functional fecal waste and garbage processor and associated methods |
US14542521 |
2014-11-14 |
US09708937B2 |
2017-07-18 |
Peter Janicki |
At least one aspect of the technology provides a self-contained processing facility configured to convert organic, high water-content waste, such as fecal sludge and garbage, into electricity while also generating and collecting potable water. |
226 |
Exhaust heat recovery device for internal combustion engine and exhaust heat recovery method for internal combustion engine |
US14441872 |
2013-12-10 |
US09657602B2 |
2017-05-23 |
Kazuo Kawai |
An exhaust heat recovery device for an engine including a Rankine cycle, including a steam accumulator that stores a surplus of a working medium for driving a turbine, and a leveling line that discharges the stored surplus working medium from the steam accumulator to the turbine, when the turbine cannot output predetermined power only with the working medium flowing out from a boiler, and levels the power outputted from the turbine. Since the power outputted from the turbine can be leveled without reduction of the power, even if the working medium cannot vaporize with the boiler immediately after start-up, immediately before stop, or during a low-load operation of the engine, exhaust heat from the engine can be efficiently used. |
227 |
Method of operating an oxycombustion circulating fluidized bed boiler |
US13996663 |
2012-02-01 |
US09651244B2 |
2017-05-16 |
Reijo Kuivalainen; Timo Eriksson; Arto Hotta |
A method of operating an oxycombustion circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler that includes a furnace having a grid at its bottom section, a solid material separator connected to an upper part of the furnace, and an external solid material handling system. Oxidant gas is introduced into the CFB boiler through the grid as fluidizing gas, the fluidizing gas including recirculating flue gas. Fuel material is introduced into the circulating fluidized bed. A sulfur reducing agent including CaCO3 is introduced into the circulating fluidized bed. Solid material is circulated out of the furnace and provides an external circulation of solid material via the external solid material handling system. The solid material is fluidized in the external solid material handling system by introducing a fluidizing medium including recirculating flue gas into the handling system. A predetermined amount of steam is introduced into the handling system as a component of the fluidizing medium. |
228 |
Power plant with CO2 capture and method to operate such power plant |
US13514663 |
2010-11-29 |
US09611762B2 |
2017-04-04 |
Staffan Jönsson; Hongtao Li; Enrico Conte |
A fossil fuel fired power plant for the generation of electrical energy comprises a water steam cycle and a plant (10) for the capture of CO2 from exhaust gases emitted by the power plant and a steam jet ejector (24) configured and arranged to receive an input steam flow from a low- or intermediate pressure extraction point in the power plant and to increase its pressure. It is further arranged to receive motive steam (25) from a further extraction point in the power plant. A steam line (27, 22) directs the steam of increased pressure from the steam jet ejector (24) to the CO2 capture plant (10). The power plant according to this invention allows the use of low-pressure steam for the operation of the CO2 capture plant, where the extraction of such steam affects the overall efficiency of the power plant to a lesser degree than in power plant of the state of the art. |
229 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRIC AND STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM |
US14985136 |
2015-12-30 |
US20170081972A1 |
2017-03-23 |
Cheol Park; Byeong-Yeol Baek; Read Stapley Tuddenham; Paul Thomas Maciulewicz |
An electric and steam system includes an electrical generator assembly configured to receive a first portion of a flow of a boil off gas (NBOG). An oxidizing unit is configured to receive a second portion of the flow of the boil off gas (NBOG), the second portion being an excess of the flow of the boil off gas (NBOG) that the electrical generator can process, and a crossover duct configured to receive a first flow of exhaust gas from the electrical generator assembly and a second flow of exhaust gas from the oxidizing unit and channel the first and second flows to an inlet of a heat recovery steam generator. |
230 |
Steam conditioning system |
US14710852 |
2015-05-13 |
US09593598B2 |
2017-03-14 |
Akhilesh Vidyutkumar Bapat; Indresh Rampall; Vytautas Vincas Maciunas |
A steam conditioning system for discharging bypass steam into a condenser of a steam powered generating plant and other uses. The system includes a steam conditioning device comprising an inner evaporative core and an outer shell. The core may be formed of a tubular piping section disposed at least partially inside the outer shell forming an annular space therebetween. An inlet end of the core receives steam from a piping header fluidly connected to an upstream desuperheating pressure reducing station which injects liquid coolant into the steam stream. Steam discharges through the core outlet end into the outer shell, reverses direction, and flows into the condenser. In one embodiment, the steam conditioning device may be disposed inside the dome of the condenser except for the inlet end. The device intends to increase flow residence time to evaporate entrained carryover coolant droplets in the incoming steam before release to the condenser. |
231 |
ULTRA EFFICIENT TURBO-COMPRESSION COOLING |
US15234824 |
2016-08-11 |
US20170045272A1 |
2017-02-16 |
Todd M. Bandhauer; Torben P. Grumstrup |
A turbo-compression cooling system includes a power cycle and a cooling cycle coupled one to the other. The power cycle implements a waste heat waste heat exchanger configured to evaporate a first working fluid and a turbine configured to receive the evaporated working fluid. The turbine is configured to rotate as the first working fluid expands to a lower pressure. A condenser condenses the first working fluid to a saturated liquid and a pump pumps the saturated liquid to the waste heat waste heat exchanger. The cooling cycle implements a compressor increasing the pressure of a second working fluid, a condenser condensing the second working fluid to a saturated liquid upon exiting the compressor, an expansion valve expanding the second working fluid to a lower pressure, and an evaporator rejecting heat from a circulating fluid to the second working fluid, thereby cooling the circulating fluid. |
232 |
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING CARBON DIOXIDE ORIGINATING FROM A COMBUSTION PROCESS |
US15123807 |
2015-03-02 |
US20170016355A1 |
2017-01-19 |
Mike Rost; Rüdiger Schneider; Henning Schramm; Nicolas Vortmeyer; Gerhard Zimmermann |
A device for using carbon dioxide originating from the combustion of a byproduct has a preparing unit which is connected to a delivery station for fossil fuels, which has a burner for combusting a byproduct that is released when the fuel is delivered, and an exhaust gas line that is connected to the burner. A depositing device is fluidically connected to the preparing unit via the exhaust gas line, for carbon dioxide. The depositing device is fluidically connected to the delivery station to redeliver fuel via a supply line for carbon dioxide. Such a device allows the production and the subsequent controlled use of carbon dioxide from previously unused byproducts in the production of crude oil. A corresponding method by which carbon dioxide originating from the combustion of a byproduct is used in a controlled manner, in particular as part of a fossil fuel extraction process. |
233 |
Power plant and method for its operation |
US13272677 |
2011-10-13 |
US09500127B2 |
2016-11-22 |
Stefan Rofka; Frank Sander; Eribert Benz; Felix Güthe; Dragan Stankovic |
The power plant includes a gas turbine unit adapted to feed flue gases into a diverter where they are divided into a recirculated flow and a discharged flow. The recirculated flow is fed into a mixer together with fresh air to form a mixture that is fed to the gas turbine unit. The gas turbine unit includes a combustion chamber where a fuel is burnt together with the mixture. A control unit is provided, that is supplied with information regarding the fuel C2+ and/or H2 content and is connected to at least the diverter to drive it and online regulate the recirculated flow mass flow rate in relation to the fuel C2+ and/or H2 content. |
234 |
Systems and methods for reducing parasitic losses in closed loop systems |
US14310856 |
2014-06-20 |
US09453433B2 |
2016-09-27 |
Sankar K. Mohan |
Embodiments of a system that configured as a closed loop system, with a pump, an evaporator, a power generator, and a condenser, the combination of which circulate a working fluid to generate electrical power. The embodiments can harvest residual energy in the working fluid to improve efficiency and to reduce power loss that can derive from the pump as well as other auxiliary loads (e.g., fans). In one embodiment, the system incorporates members that operate in response to the working fluid, often in the higher pressure vapor form that occurs after evaporation and/or power generation stages. These members can include mechanical elements, for example, that have motive action (e.g., reciprocate, rotate, etc.) that is useful to satisfy operating and power requirements of auxiliary loads. For the pressurization stage, these mechanical elements may embody a piston-and-cylinder arrangement (or other rotary or linear positive displacement arrangement) that generates motion that can drive the pump. |
235 |
PUMPING APPARATUS |
US15028060 |
2014-10-07 |
US20160236947A1 |
2016-08-18 |
Boris LIBERMAN; Herman WEISS; Tomer EFRAT |
A pumping apparatus for a water treatment plant, the pumping apparatus comprising a gas supply, at least one gas turbine 11 connected to the gas supply, the at least one gas turbine connected to drive at least one primary pump 12 through a reduction gear train 13 and clutch 14, a waste heat boiler 26 having a feed water input, the waste heat boiler having an exhaust gas input 26a to receive exhaust gas from the at least one gas turbine 11 and generate steam from the feed water, the waste heat boiler having an steam output 18, the apparatus further comprising at least one steam turbine 20, the at least one steam turbine connected to drive at least one secondary pump 21, the at least one steam turbine being connected to the steam output 18 of the waste heat boiler, the at least one steam turbine 20 further having an exhaust steam output 27, the apparatus further comprising a condensing apparatus 28 to receive steam from the exhaust steam output and generate a feed water stream at a feed water output, the feed water outlet being connected to the feed water input of the waste heat boiler 26. |
236 |
Electric power generation |
US13534367 |
2012-06-27 |
US09391254B2 |
2016-07-12 |
Daniel Lessard |
Apparatus for electric power generation. A system includes a boiler for heating a fluid, the boiler directing a first portion of the heated fluid to a turbine for the generation of electric power and a second portion of the heated fluid to a thermoelectric (TE) generator, and a condenser connected to the turbine that condenses hot fluid emitted from the turbine and feeds the condensed fluid to the TE generator, the TE generator generating electric power from a difference in temperature of the second portion of the heated fluid and the condensed fluid from the turbine. |
237 |
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL FECAL WASTE AND GARBAGE PROCESSOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS |
US14542521 |
2014-11-14 |
US20160138433A1 |
2016-05-19 |
Peter Janicki |
At least one aspect of the technology provides a self-contained processing facility configured to convert organic, high water-content waste, such as fecal sludge and garbage, into electricity while also generating and collecting potable water. |
238 |
GAS TURBINE PLANT WITH IMPROVED FLEXIBILITY |
US14761942 |
2014-01-14 |
US20150361883A1 |
2015-12-17 |
Uwe Lenk; Alexander Tremel |
A gas turbine plant includes a gas turbine having a compressor, a combustion chamber and an expander; and a water-steam circuit which is thermally connected to the gas turbine such that during the operation of the gas turbine, waste gas drawn off therefrom transfers heat to the water-steam circuit in order to generate steam. The water-steam circuit is further thermally connected to a heat accumulator which in turn is thermally connected to a container for storing water. The container is fluidically coupled to the gas turbine such that water can be supplied from the container to the gas turbine during the operation of the latter in order to increase output. A flash valve is connected between the container and the gas turbine, the valve being designed to reduce the pressure of the water taken from the container to a lower pressure level. |
239 |
STEAM CONDITIONING SYSTEM |
US14710852 |
2015-05-13 |
US20150330260A1 |
2015-11-19 |
Akhilesh Vidyutkumar Bapat; Indresh Rampall; Vytautas Vincas Maciunas |
A steam conditioning system for discharging bypass steam into a condenser of a steam powered generating plant and other uses. The system includes a steam conditioning device comprising an inner evaporative core and an outer shell. The core may be formed of a tubular piping section disposed at least partially inside the outer shell forming an annular space therebetween. An inlet end of the core receives steam from a piping header fluidly connected to an upstream desuperheating pressure reducing station which injects liquid coolant into the steam stream. Steam discharges through the core outlet end into the outer shell, reverses direction, and flows into the condenser. In one embodiment, the steam conditioning device may be disposed inside the dome of the condenser except for the inlet end. The device intends to increase flow residence time to evaporate entrained carryover coolant droplets in the incoming steam before release to the condenser. |
240 |
POWER GENERATION SYSTEM, POWER GENERATION METHOD |
US14654714 |
2013-12-27 |
US20150318763A1 |
2015-11-05 |
Yutaka KUBOTA; Takao SAKURAI; Toyotaka HIRAO; Naoki KOBAYASHI |
This power generation system is provided with a medium circuit, a circulation pump, an evaporator which evaporates a medium, an expander configured to be driven using the medium evaporated by the evaporator, a condenser configured to condense the medium discharged from the expander, a generator configured to be driven by the expander to generate power, a cooling system configured to cool the generator using the medium taken out from the medium circuit at a downstream side of the condenser, and a gas-liquid separator configured to separate the medium heated as a consequence of cooling the generator by the cooling system into gas and liquid phases, wherein the gas phase of the medium is flowed into the medium circuit at an upstream side of the condenser, and the liquid phase of the medium is flowed into the medium circuit at the downstream side of the condenser. |