General Electric Company

James Patrick Francis Lyons

Patrick Lee Jansen

Bharat S Bagepalli

James Michael Fogarty

Ronghai Qu

Ralph James Carl, Jr

Corneliu Barbu

Robert Dean King

Kenneth Brakeley Welles

Vitali Victor Lissianski

Mark Edward Cardinal

Matthew Christian Nielsen

Fulton Jose Lopez

Aaron John Avagliano

Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre

Vladimir Zamansky

Kirk Gee Pierce

Aditya Kumar

William E Holley

Thomas Frank Fric

Surinder Prabhjot Singh

Gary Randall Barnes

Ruijie Shi

Richard Anthony Depuy

Peter Rogall

Jivtesh Garg

Shashikanth Suryanarayanan

A plasma-assisted waste gasification system and process for converting waste stream reaction residues into a clean synthesis gas (syngas) is disclosed. The feedstock is fed into a reactor roughly one-third from the bottom through the use of a feed mechanism. The reactor has three zones; a bottom zone where melting occurs, a middle zone where gasification takes place, and a top zone with integrated plasma torches to control the temperature and polish the syngas. The residence times in the three zones are selected to optimize the syngas composition and melted products. The syngas leaves the reactor and is partially quenched with relatively cooler synthesis gas. The partially quenched syngas is further cooled to recover heat for steam generation and/or preheating the waste stream to the reactor. The cold syngas is then processed to remove pollutants. The clean synthesis gas is combusted in power generation equipment to generate electricity, or converted to other fuels by chemical processes.

Plasma-assisted waste gasification system

A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes includes a ship propulsion motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a rotor with an inner rotor core and an outer rotor core; and a double-sided stator with an inner stator side and an outer stator side. The double-sided stator is concentrically disposed between the inner rotor core and the outer rotor core.

Electrical machine with double-sided stator

A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes include a double-sided generator or motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a double-sided rotor with an inner rotor side and an outer rotor side; and a stator with an inner stator core and an outer stator core, wherein the double-sided rotor is concentrically disposed between the inner stator core and the outer stator core.

Electrical machine with double-sided rotor

A method and apparatus of assembling a rotary machine includes providing at least one component. The component is at least one of a rotating member and a stationary member. The method and apparatus also includes coupling the component to a monocoque nacelle structure. The monocoque nacelle structure includes an outer shell that extends over at least a portion of the component.

Methods and apparatus for assembling and operating monocoque rotary machines

A control system for a rotary machine is provided. The rotary machine has at least one rotating member and at least one substantially stationary member positioned such that a clearance gap is defined between a portion of the rotating member and a portion of the substantially stationary member. The control system includes at least one clearance gap dimension measurement apparatus and at least one clearance gap adjustment assembly. The adjustment assembly is coupled in electronic data communication with the measurement apparatus. The control system is configured to process a clearance gap dimension signal and modulate the clearance gap dimension.

Methods and apparatus for controlling rotary machines

The machine includes a rotor with an inner rotor core and an outer rotor core and a double-sided stator with an inner stator side and an outer stator side. The double-sided stator is concentrically disposed between the inner rotor core and the outer rotor core of the wind turbine generator. The double-sided stator is configured to enable at least a portion of magnetic flux to be shared between the inner stator side and the outer stator side. An example of a particularly useful embodiment for the machine includes a ship propulsion motor.

Electrical machine with double-sided lamination stack

A method for controlling power output of a wind turbine generator in response to an anticipated change in wind speed is provided. The method includes sensing wind speed at a desired distance from the wind turbine generator in a direction of the wind. The method further includes controlling pitch of a blade of the wind turbine generator based upon sensed transient wind speed in advance of a change in wind speed at the wind turbine generator.

System and method for upwind speed based control of a wind turbine

An integrated battery monitoring device includes a pair of input leads for coupling across the terminals of a battery cell to be monitored and a sensor for sensing a desired battery cell parameter. A self-contained power supply has the voltage across the battery cell terminals as an input thereto, the self-contained power supply being configured for providing power to the sensor. A pair of output leads communicates data generated by the sensor.

Integrated, self-powered battery monitoring device and system

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Saratoga Springs, NY, United States of America

James Patrick Francis Lyons