General Electric Company

Cummins Enterprise LLC

Bl Technologies, Inc.

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Andrew Philip Shapiro

Jerome Johnson Tiemann

Irfan Hussaini

Honggang Wang

Chandra Sekher Yerramalli

Matthew Joseph Alinger

Anthony John Dean

Walter Whipple

Richard Louis Hart

Reza Sarrafi-Nour

Rihua Xiong

Badri Narayan Ramamurthi

Darren Bawden Hickey

Anil Raj Duggal

Timothy Scott Shaffer

Bang M Kim

Hua Wang

Chang Wei

Xiwang Qi

Donald E Woodmansee

Dacong Weng

Joseph James Salvo

Hai Yang

Bruce P Biederman

Roy F Thornton

Shu Ching Quek

Qunjian Huang

Jun Jie Cai

Jinghua Liu

Shengxian Wang

Eayre Bruce Voorhees

Rong Fan

Steven Paraszczak

Hareesh Kumar Reddy Kommepalli

Narendra Digamber Joshi

Gary Michael Itzel

Robert James Perry

Charles Dominic Iacovangelo

Curtis Alan Johnson

James Manio Silva

Thomas James Batzinger

Victor John Morgan

James Alfred Day

Mohamed Rahmane

Dong-Sil Park

Vitali Victor Lissianski

Michael Alan Vallance

Ralph Teichmann

Timothy Mark Sivavec

Todd Alan Anderson

Waseem Ibrahim Faidi

Imdad Imam

Jacob John Kittleson

Samuel Vincent DuPlessis

Wei Cai

David Charles Bogdan, Jr

Stanley Frank Simpson

James Albert Tallman

Richard Scott Bourgeois

Patrick Hammel Hart

Youssef El-Shoubary

Richard DeVos

John Brian McDermott

Harry Israel Ringermacher

Matthew Alexander Lehar

Elihu Calvin Jerabek

Steven Alfred Tysoe

Andrew Maxwell Peter

Harish Radhakrishna Acharya

Zijun Xia

Keith Garrette Brown

Daguang Zheng

Roger Allen Shisler

Teresa Grocela Rocha

Stephen Duane Sanborn

Ching-Jen Tang

Jie Guan

Nishith Pramod Vora

Jalal Hunain Zia

Lorina June White

Haiyan Sun

Stephane Renou

Irina Pavlovna Spiry

Jian Wu

George Edward Williams

Andrzej Michal May

Chengqian Zhang

Vinod Kumar Pareek

Guillermo Daniel Zappi

Laura Michele Hudy

Sauri Gudlavalleti

Craig Stringer

Xianguo Yu

Martin Scott Mershon

Scott Russell King

Xiangdong Kong

Shiguang Li

Douglas F Westerkamp

Roger W Haskell

Gregory John Parker

A component includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface, and at least one plenum defined interiorly to the outer wall and configured to receive a cooling fluid therein. The component also includes a coating system disposed on the exterior surface. The coating system has a thickness. The component further includes a plurality of adaptive cooling openings defined in the outer wall. Each of the adaptive cooling openings extends from a first end inflow communication with the at least one plenum, outward through the exterior surface and to a second end covered underneath at least a portion of the thickness of the coating system.

Coated components having adaptive cooling openings and methods of making the same

A fuel cell system is disclosed, which includes an anode recirculation loop having a fuel cell stack for generating power, a flowmeter, a current sensor and a processor. The flowmeter is configured for measuring a fuel flow rate provided into the anode recirculation loop. The current sensor is configured for measuring a current drawn from the fuel cell stack. The processor is configured for determining a steam to carbon ratio in the anode recirculation loop based on the measured fuel flow rate and the measured current. The fuel cell system further includes a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature in the anode recirculation loop. The process is configured for determining the steam to carbon ration further based on the measured temperature. A method for operating the fuel cell system and a fuel cell power plant are also disclosed.

Fuel cell system, operating method thereof and fuel cell power plant

A formed substrate assembly includes an air flow form plate, a fuel flow form plate, and an anode. The fuel flow form plate is positioned over the air flow form plate. The fuel flow form plate partially defines a plurality of first channels. The fuel flow form plate also defines a plurality of second channels. The plurality of second channels defines a plurality of apertures, where a portion of the apertures extend from the plurality of second channels to the plurality of first channels. The anode is positioned over the fuel flow form plate. The anode partially defines the plurality of first channels such that the fuel flow form plate and the anode define the plurality of first channels. The portion of the plurality of apertures is configured to channel a flow of fuel from the plurality of second channels to the plurality of first channels.

System and method for solid oxide fuel cells with staged fuel supply

A fuel cell system and a control method thereof are disclosed. The system includes a fuel cell stack having an anode and a cathode, an anode recirculation loop including the anode, a fuel supply device for providing a fuel gas via a fuel feed path, an air supply device for providing air to the cathode, an anode blower and a switching element. The loop has a first path and a second path, and the anode is arranged in the second path. During normal operation of the system, the fuel feed path and the first path are combined to form the second path, and the second path is split into the first path and a fuel exhaust path. The anode blower is configured for driving circulation through the loop. The switching element is located in at least one of the first path and the combining point and is configured to force the fuel gas to flow through the second path to the fuel exhaust path in the event of failure of the anode blower.

Fuel cell system and control method thereof

Power generation systems and associated methods for generating electric power using a cascaded fuel cell are provided. The power generation system may include a first fuel cell, a second fuel cell, a splitting mechanism, a first fuel path, and a second fuel path. The First fuel cell is configured to generate first anode and first cathode tail gas streams. The splitting mechanism is configured to split the first anode tail gas stream into first and second portions. The first fuel path is configured to receive hydrocarbon fuel stream downstream of splitting mechanism, mix with the first portion to form a mixed stream, and circulate the mixed stream to the first fuel cell. The second fuel path is configured to feed the second portion to the second fuel cell. The first and second fuel cells are configured to generate electric power by using the mixed stream and the second portion respectively.

Power generation system using cascaded fuel cells and associated methods thereof

A reverse osmosis unit for processing a feed solution is provided. The unit includes a pressure vessel includes an inlet end, an outlet end, and a vessel body extending between the inlet end and the outlet end. The reverse osmosis unit further includes a plurality of first membrane modules positioned within the pressure vessel. Each first membrane module of the plurality of first membrane modules has a first salt permeance value. At least one second membrane module is positioned within the pressure vessel and coupled in flow communication to the plurality of first membrane modules. The at least one second membrane module has a second salt permeance value that is different from the first salt permeance value.

Reverse osmosis system for use with a wellbore and methods of assembling the same

An integrated fuel cell and engine combustor assembly includes an engine combustor having a combustion chamber fluidly coupled with a compressor and a turbine. The assembly also includes a fuel cell stack circumferentially extending around the combustion chamber of the combustor. The fuel cell stack includes fuel cells configured to generate electric current. The fuel cell stack is positioned to receive discharged air from the compressor and fuel from a fuel manifold. The fuel cells in the fuel cell stack generate electric current using the discharged air and at least some of the fuel. The fuel cell stack is positioned to radially direct partially oxidized fuel from the fuel cells into the combustion chamber of the combustor. The combustor combusts the partially oxidized fuel into one or more gaseous combustion products that are directed into and drive the downstream turbine.

Integrated fuel cell and engine combustor assembly

A system includes a first plurality of fuel cell stacks configured to generate a first portion of an electric potential and a second plurality of fuel cell stacks configured to generate a second portion of the electric potential. The system includes a positive electrical bus bar conductively coupled with the first plurality of fuel cell stacks and configured to power an electrical load using the generated electric potential. The system includes a negative electrical bus bar conductively coupled with the second plurality of fuel cell stacks and configured to electrical load using the generated electric potential. The positive electrical bus bar is elongated and extends between the first plurality of fuel cell stacks and the negative electrical bus bar is elongated and extends between the second plurality of fuel cell stacks.

Integrated fuel cell systems

A method for operating a power generation system including a fuel-cell is presented. The method includes detecting a water deficient condition of the fuel-cell. The method further includes operating, in response to detecting the water deficient condition of the fuel-cell, at least one auxiliary load of the power generation system via use of an electrical current generated by the fuel-cell to maintain a steam-carbon ratio in the fuel-cell above a threshold steam-carbon ratio value. A control sub-system for operating the power generation system is also presented. Moreover, a power generation system including the fuel-cell, the least one auxiliary load, and the control sub-system is presented.

Method and control sub-system for operating a power generation system having a fuel-cell

The present application provides combined cycle fuel cell systems that include a fuel cell, such as a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC), comprising an anode that generates a tail gas and a cathode that generates cathode exhaust. The system or plant may include adding fuel, such as processed or refined tail gas, to the inlet air stream of a reformer to heat the reformer. The system or plant may include removing water from the tail gas and recycling the removed water into an inlet fuel stream. The inlet air stream may be the cathode exhaust stream of the fuel cell, and the inlet fuel stream may be input hydrocarbon fuel that is directed to the reformer to produce hydrogen-rich reformate. The system or plant may direct some of the processed or refined tail gas to a bottoming cycle.

Solid-oxide fuel cell systems

A system for controlling a flow rate ratio includes a fuel cell comprising an anode for generating a tail gas and having an inlet and an outlet; a fuel reformer for mixing a fuel with the tail gas from the outlet of the anode to generate a reformed stream which is split into first and second branch streams at a splitting position, the first branch stream returned to the inlet of the anode; a cooler for removing heat from the second branch stream; a bottoming cycle including an external or internal combustion engine driven in response to the cooled second branch stream; a measuring device for measuring differential pressures of two of the main stream, the first branch stream and the second branch stream; and a controlling device for controlling a flow rate ratio of the first branch stream to the main stream in response to the measured differential pressures.

System and method for controlling flow rate ratio

A power generation system including a first fuel cell configured to generate a first anode tail gas stream is presented. The system includes at least one fuel reformer configured to receive the first anode tail gas stream, mix the first anode tail gas stream with a reformer fuel stream to form a reformed stream; a splitting mechanism to split the reformed stream into a first portion and a second portion; and a fuel path configured to circulate the first portion to an anode inlet of the first fuel cell, such that the first fuel cell is configured to generate a first electric power, at least in part, by using the first portion as a fuel. The system includes a second fuel cell configured to receive the second portion, and to generate a second electric power, at least in part, by using the second portion as a fuel.

Power generation systems and methods utilizing cascaded fuel cells

A power generation system includes a fuel cell including an anode that generates a tail gas. The system also includes a hydrocarbon fuel reforming system that mixes a hydrocarbon fuel with the fuel cell tail gas and to convert the hydrocarbon fuel and fuel tail gas into a reformed fuel stream including CO. The reforming system further splits the reformed fuel stream into a first portion and a second portion. The system further includes a COremoval system coupled in flow communication with the reforming system. The system also includes a first reformed fuel path coupled to the reforming system. The first path channels the first portion of the reformed fuel stream to an anode inlet. The system further includes a second reformed fuel path coupled to the reforming system. The second path channels the second portion of the reformed fuel stream to the COremoval system.

Fuel cell reforming system with carbon dioxide removal

A method for processing a flowback composition stream from a well head includes controlling a first flow rate of the flow back composition stream to a second flow rate by regulating the flowback composition stream from a first pressure to a second pressure. The method also includes separating the flowback composition stream into a first gas stream and a condensed stream. The method includes discharging the condensed stream to a degasser and degassing a carbon dioxide rich gas from the condensed stream. The method also includes mixing the carbon dioxide rich gas stream with the first gas stream to produce a second gas stream. The method includes controlling a third flow rate of the second gas stream by regulating a third pressure of the second gas stream to a fourth pressure that is different than the third pressure.

Modular assembly for processing a flowback composition stream and methods of processing the same

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Andrew Philip Shapiro