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Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

Fred W Taylor

Scott Bohanan

Jim Jordan

John A Marchetti

Matthew Winslow

Amy Mayo

A system and a method for drone detection and collision avoidance, particularly for use in an aircraft, is provided. The system includes, but is not limited to a sensor, a processor, and an avoidance unit comprising a control unit. The sensor is configured to detect a drone signal in a predetermined space and to transmit the drone signal to the processor. The processor is configured to determine the presence of a drone in the predetermined space based on the drone signal. The processor is configured to transmit a command to the avoidance unit when the processor determines the presence of a drone. The control unit is configured to receive the command and to generate a warning signal in response to receiving the command.

Systems, aircrafts and methods for drone detection and collision avoidance

A flash reactor unit includes a housing shaped to define a chamber therein in which gases and particulate matter are continuously circulated. A stream of hot, high velocity exhaust gas from a combustion chamber turbine is introduced into the chamber proximate the bottom thereof such that the gases are directed upwardly into the chamber. A cooling liquid such as, for example, sanitary waste liquid, is sprayed into the chamber proximate the top thereof. At the same time metallic waste objects, such as tin cans, are introduced to the chamber with the hot gases continuously circulating the metallic objects to thereby expose substantially all of the surface area of the objects to the chemicals in the hot gases and the liquid sanitary waste. The surfaces of the metallic objects form a reaction surface for generating insoluble salts from the hot gases, the metallic objects and the liquid wastes. The metallic objects are continuously ejected from the chamber as more metallic objects are introduced therein. The insoluble salts and hot gases are exhausted from the chamber, cooled and then separated.

Flash reactor unit

An evaporator-condenser unit is disclosed which includes an elongated enclosed chamber into which hot gases are injected to form a cyclonic stream therein. The hot gases impinge and pass around a substantial plurality of tubes containing relatively cool sanitary liquid waste. Condensation thereby forms on the tubes and is blown by the cyclonic action of the hot gas stream to the outer periphery of the cyclonic chamber where the condensation is collected and conveyed away from the chamber. At the same time, the heat from the hot gases is transferred to the liquid sanitary waste which is converted into steam in a steam expansion chest at the top of the cyclonic chamber. The steam is compressed and injected back into the hot gas stream flowing into the cyclonic chamber. The steam is then condensed on the tubes and conveyed away for appropriate utilization. Clogging of the tubes by solid matter contained within the liquid waste is prevented by means of a periodic blow down operation which forces the material in each of the tubes under high pressure into the steam expansion chest. The steam expansion chest includes a sump which collects the liquid and solid waste and conveys same away from the evaporator-condenser unit. The cooled gases after passing through and about the plurality of tubes is conducted away from the cyclonic chamber to a discharge stack.

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Bartow, FL, United States of America

Fred W Taylor