General Electric Company

Ajit Achuthan

Glenn Scott Claydon

Anis Zribi

Guiju Song

Stacey Joy Kennerly

William James Premerlani

Kevin George Harding

Kanakasabapathi Subramanian

Hua Xia

Christopher Fred Keimel

Donald E Castleberry

John Norton Park

William Andrew Hennessy

Habib Vafi

Mahadevan Balasubramaniam

Marko Klaus Baller

Michael John Utschig

Min-Yi Shih

Kuna Venkat Satya Rama Kishore

Shivappa Ningappa Goravar

Jianming Zheng

Joshua Isaac Wright

Peter Joseph Codella

Kuna Kishore

Jie Jiang

Somashekhar Basavaraj

Wensen Wang

Le Yan

Virendra Vilas Gaikwad

Marcin Alexy

Kristina Margaret Korosi

Wang Wensen

According to one embodiment, a first capacitive element may be provided and associated with a surface where a fouling layer is to be detected. A second capacitive element may also be provided, and a capacitance between the first and second capacitive elements may be used to detect formation of the fouling layer. According to another embodiment, a thermal device is provided proximate to a surface where a fouling layer is to be detected. A detector (e.g., a thermometer or vibration detector) may detect a condition associated with the surface, and formation of the fouling layer may be determined based at least in part on the condition.

Early fouling detection

A system is presented. The system includes detection circuitry configured to detect occurrence of a zero crossing of an alternating source voltage or an alternating load current. The system also includes switching circuitry coupled to the detection circuitry and comprising a micro-electromechanical system switch. Additionally, the system includes control circuitry coupled to the detection circuitry and the switching circuitry and configured to perform arc-less switching of the micro-electromechanical system switch responsive to a detected zero crossing of an alternating source voltage or alternating load current.

Micro-electromechanical system based soft switching

An x-ray detector is provided for use in imaging systems. The x-ray detector includes a detector subsystem configured to output electrical signals in response to reception of x-rays. The detector subsystem includes an imaging panel, a support layer and a low density core disposed between the imaging panel and the support layer.

Digital x-ray detectors

A interferometer-based fouling detection system and method are described. The system may include a fiber optic cable, a light source in communication with the fiber optic cable, at least one photo detector in communication with the fiber optic cable, and at least one interferometric spectrometer. The fiber optic cable may include a long period grating and a fiber Bragg grating or it may include a facet edge. The system may instead include a fiber optic cable, a light source in communication with the fiber optic cable, at least one photo detector in communication with the fiber optic cable, a fiber coupler, a reference probe including a mirror, a sample probe, and an interferometer.

Interferometer-based real time early fouling detection system and method

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