General Electric Company

Unison Industries, Inc.

Ge Infrastructure Technology, LLC

Ge Aviation Systems Limited

U.S. Department of Energy

General Electric Renovables Espana, S.l.

Daniel Jason Erno

William Dwight Gerstler

Fulton Jose Lopez

Ananda Barua

Darren Lee Hallman

Michael Thomas Kenworthy

Robert Michael Zirin

Arun Karthi Subramaniyan

Jeffrey Douglas Rambo

Brian Magann Rush

David Roger Moore

Thomas Charles Adcock

Norman Arnold Turnquist

Arunkumar Natarajan

Michael Kent Cueman

Thomas Kupiszewski

Anil Raj Duggal

Bugra Han Ertas

Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock

Richard Louis Hart

Robert Arvin Hedeen

Changjie Sun

Stephen Bertram Johnson

Prabhjot Singh

Adam Daniel Minadeo

Peggy Lynn Baehmann

Charles Gerard Woychik

Narendra Digamber Joshi

William Thomas Carter

James Robert Tobin

John McConnell Delvaux

Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov

Weston Blaine Griffin

Todd Alan Anderson

Michael Evans Graham

Vitali Victor Lissianski

Seyed Gholamali Saddoughi

Ljubisa Dragoljub Stevanovic

Andrew Lee Trimmer

Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini

Subhrajit Roychowdhury

Biao Fang

Robert Alan Brittingham

Brian Denver Potter

Ian David Wilson

Kevin Wayne Kinzie

Richard Alfred Beaupre

Anurag Gupta

Ralf Lenigk

Philip Paul Beauchamp

Ken Ivcar Salas Nobrega

James Henry Madge

John Carl Glessner

Gregory Edward Cooper

Murtuza Lokhandwalla

Erin Jean Finehout

Nicolas Kristopher Sabo

Michael Colan Moscinski

Dean David Marschke

Albert Santo Stella

Shashishekara Sitharamarao Talya

Andrew Joseph Wickersham

John Joseph Madelone, Jr

Mark Daniel Doherty

Patrick Daniel Willson

Jared Micheal Iverson

Stefano Lassini

Joseph Robert Coleman

Robert Frank Hoskin

Laura Cerully Dial

Matthew Patrick Boespflug

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

Eyitayo James Owoeye

Justin John Gambone, Jr

Brian Lewis Devendorf

Lana Maria Osusky

Ying Mao

Jeffrey Frederick Magee

Sathyanarayanan Raghavan

Munishwar Ahuja

Neil Richard Garrigan

Priyangu Chunilal Patel

Van Dang

Voramon Supatarawanich Dheeradhada

Ruijie Shi

Pascal Meyer

Grover Andrew Bennett

Uttara Vijay Kumar

Dmytro Floriyovych Opaits

Dmitry Opaits

Christopher Darby Immer

Jeffrey David Erno

K M K Genghis Khan

Zaeem Ashraf Khan

Patrick Jose Lazatin

Justin John Gambone

Olav Rommetveit

Haiyang Qian

A heat exchanger includes a core defining a first passageway for a first fluid flow and a second passageway for a second fluid flow. The core includes an assembly of a plurality of unit cells coupled together. Each unit cell defines a first passageway portion within an interior volume and a second passageway portion at an exterior surface. Each unit cell includes a plurality of first openings into the interior volume and forms the second passageway in volumes between the plurality of unit cells. The assembly is shaped to combine and divide the first fluid in the first passageway portion and combine and divide the second fluid in the second passageway portion during exchange of heat between the first fluid and the second fluid. Each second passageway portion receives the second fluid from three other second passageway portions. The heat exchanger further includes at least one baffle in at least one of the first passageway or the second passageway to route the first fluid flow independently from the second fluid flow.

Multifurcating heat exchanger with independent baffles

An additively manufactured heat exchanger assembly formed of a lattice structure with a plurality of shell structure unit cells. The plurality of shell structure unit cells each include at least one junction and a plurality of connectors coupled to the junction. The junction and the plurality of connectors form an integral surface. The heat exchanger assembly further includes a fluid boundary wall defined within the lattice structure to define an active heat exchanger portion. The active heat exchanger portion includes at least one working fluid contained within the fluid boundary wall. Further, at least one of the plurality of shell structure unit cells extends through and beyond the fluid boundary wall. Further, the shell structure unit cells may be isotropic.

Heat exchanger assembly formed of a lattice structure with a plurality of shell structure unit cells

Methods of additively manufacturing a three-dimensional object include irradiating a first build plane region using a first energy beam defining a beam diameter, the first energy beam travelling along a first oscillating path in a first direction to consolidate a first wall defining a thickness perpendicular to the first direction, wherein a build material adjacent a first side of the first wall and the build material adjacent a second side of the first wall, opposite the first side of the first wall, remains unconsolidated; and wherein the thickness of the first wall is greater than the beam diameter.

Additive manufacturing methods and systems

A heat exchanger for a gas turbine engine includes an outer shell extending between a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The outer shell defines a first fluid chamber, a first fluid inlet adjacent the first end, and a first fluid outlet adjacent the second end. The outer shell also defines a first plurality of second fluid inlet openings located between the first end and the second end and a second fluid outlet adjacent the second end. The heat exchanger includes a manifold disposed within the outer shell. The manifold defines a second fluid chamber and a second plurality of second fluid inlet openings. The heat exchanger defines a first fluid pathway and a second fluid pathway.

Heat exchangers for gas turbine engines

A topping cycle fuel cell unit includes a support plate having internal flow passages that extend to combustion outlets, a first electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a second electrode layer. The second electrode layer is configured to be coupled to another support plate of another fuel cell unit. The internal flow passages are configured to receive and direct air across the first electrolyte layer or the second electrolyte layer and to receive and direct fuel across another of the first electrolyte layer or the second electrolyte layer such that the first electrode layer, the electrolyte layer, and the second electrode layer create electric current. The internal flow passages are configured to direct at least some of the air and at least some of the fuel to the combustion outlets where the at least some air and the at least some fuel is combusted.

Integrated fuel cell and combustion system

A carbon dioxide (CO) capture system and method for removing COfrom an inlet gas including a first fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a first fluid stream, such as an inlet gas containing CO, and a second fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a second fluid stream, such as steam, an outlet providing for the flow of a COdepleted stream from the COcapture system, an outlet providing for the flow of a COstream from the COcapture system and a concentrator in fluid communication with the first fluid stream. The system further including a first contactor and a second contactor. Each of the first contactor and the second contactor defining therein a first fluidically-isolated, sorbent-integrated, fluid domain for flow of the first fluid stream and COadsorption and a second fluidically-isolated fluid domain for flow of the second fluid stream to assist in desorption.

Carbon dioxide capture with system of contactors each having fluidically-isolated, thermally-connected, parallel fluid domains

A water recovery system including a first fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a first fluid stream, such as a humidified inlet gas, into the system and a second fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a second fluid stream, such as a gas having a temperature greater than the humidified inlet gas, into the system. At least one contactor is in fluid communication with the first fluid stream inlet and the second fluid stream inlet. The at least one contactor defining therein a first fluidically-isolated, sorbent-integrated, fluid domain for flow of the first fluid stream and water adsorption, a second fluidically-isolated fluid domain for flow of the second fluid stream wherein the second fluidically-isolated fluid domain is in thermal communication with the first fluidically-isolated, sorbent-integrated, fluid domain and a third fluidically-isolated fluid domain for capture of a condensate and recycling of latent heat of condensation back to the first fluidically-isolated, sorbent-integrated, fluid domain.

Water recovery system including integrated contactor with thermally-enhanced recovery

A heat exchanger is provided that can include furcating unit cells coupled with each other. Each of the unit cells can be elongated along an axis and include a sidewall that defines annular ring openings on opposite ends of the unit cell along the axis. The sidewall also can define undulating annular rings between the annular ring openings and axially separated from each other along the axis. The sidewall can further define angled openings into the unit cell both above and below each of the undulating annular rings. At least a first opening of the annular ring openings and the angled openings can be configured to be an inlet to receive a first fluid into the unit cell and at least a second opening of the annular ring openings and the angled openings configured to be an outlet through which the first fluid exits the unit cell.

Heat exchanger including furcating unit cells

An article of manufacture includes a part structure formed via a first additive manufacturing process and a floating structure within the part structure which is mechanically decoupled from the part structure. The floating structure is formed concurrently with the part structure via the first additive manufacturing process.

Powder removal floating structures

Carbon dioxide capture system and method of capturing carbon dioxide

A thermal structure for management of thermal energy, the thermal structure including: a first wall structure defining a first cavity; a second wall structure defining a second cavity, the second cavity in fluid communication with the first cavity; and a barrier cavity defined at least in-part by the first wall structure and the second wall structure, wherein the barrier cavity is disposed between the first cavity and the second cavity and includes a pressurized barrier fluid therein or is configured to receive the pressurized barrier fluid during operation of the thermal structure.

Pressure equilibrated thermal insulation gap

A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger provides a first plurality of tubes and a second plurality of flow passages which furcate near one of the first and second manifolds into two or more furcated flow passages and subsequently converge to exit the heat exchanger. The plurality of furcated flow passages are intertwined, reducing the distance between flow passages containing each fluid therebetween to improve thermal transfer. Further, the furcations create changes of direction of the fluid to re-establish new thermal boundary layers within the flow passages to further reduce resistance to thermal transfer.

Multi-branch furcating flow heat exchanger

A heat exchange module, a heat exchanger and a method for additively manufacturing the heat exchanger are provided. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of stacked heat exchange modules defining a flow passageway. Each heat exchange module defining a substantially curved closed geometry defining a central axis that extends along the axial direction. Each heat exchange module includes a first heat exchanging fluid inlet, a first heat exchanging fluid outlet and a plurality of heat exchange tubes fluidly coupling the first heat exchanging fluid inlet and the first heat exchanging fluid outlet. The plurality of heat exchange tubes defining a plurality of first heat exchanging fluid flow passages of equal length and a plurality of second heat exchanging fluid flow passages of equal hydraulic diameter.

Circular crossflow heat exchanger

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