General Electric Company

Lockheed Martin Corporation

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Paul Burchell Glaser

Michael Anthony Benjamin

Arthur William Sibbach

Robert James Perry

Daniel George Norton

John Aibangbee Osaheni

Deborah Ann Haitko

Thomas Joseph Fyvie

Gregory Allen O'Neil

Ashish Balkrishna Mhadeshwar

Patrick Edward Pastecki

William James Lawson

Baha Mahmoud Suleiman

Hua Zhang

Grigorii Lev Soloveichik

Geoffrey David Myers

Edward Henry Allen

Susanne Madeline Lee

Douglas Frank Beadie

Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy

Manoharan Venugopal

Sundar Amancherla

Ramakrishna Rao

David Terry Trayhan, Jr

Pierre Montagne

Maher Mohamad Aboujaib

Keegan Saunders O'Donnell

Saratchandra Shanmukh

Jeevankumar Krishnan

Paul Joseph Martin

Hatem Mohamed Mohyeldin Ibrahim Selim

A fuel leak detection system for hydrogen fuel system including a monitored component. The fuel leak detection system including a sensor and controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The sensor is positioned to monitor at least a portion of the monitored component. The sensor is configured (i) to sense a parameter corresponding to a hydrogen fuel leak of the monitored component and (ii) to generate an output. The controller is configured (i) to receive the output of the sensor, (ii) to determine, based on the output of the sensor, if a leak has occurred in the monitored component, and (iii) to generate an output indicating a fuel system leak when the controller determines that the leak has occurred in the monitored component. The monitored component may be a component of one of a fuel tank, a power generator, and a fuel delivery assembly.

Hydrogen fuel leak detection system

A hydrogen fuel including a safety marker and a method and apparatus for adding the safety marker to the hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen fuel may be stored in a tank in a liquid phase and then heated to at least one of a gaseous phase and a supercritical phase. The safety marker may be added to the hydrogen fuel when the hydrogen fuel is in the at least one of the gaseous phase and the supercritical phase after heating the hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen fuel may be delivered in the at least one of the gaseous phase and the supercritical phase to a power generator, such as a gas turbine engine. The safety marker may be a visual safety marker, such as a noble gas, or an odorant.

Safety markers for a hydrogen fuel system

A fuel system for a power generator using hydrogen fuel and a method of recovering a safety marker added to the hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen fuel may be stored in a tank and delivered, in at least one of a gaseous phase and a supercritical phase, to a power generator. The hydrogen fuel is delivered with a fuel delivery assembly and contains at least one safety marker when the fuel is in the fuel delivery assembly. The at least one safety marker is separated from the hydrogen fuel, using, for example, a separator. The at least one safety marker separated from the hydrogen fuel is stored in a safety marker storage tank. The safety marker may be a visual safety marker, such as a noble gas, or an odorant.

Removing safety markers from a hydrogen fuel system

A power generation system includes a combustion system, a liquid supply system, and a vapor supply system. The combustion system is configured to generate power by combusting an alternative fuel. The liquid supply system is configured to channel a liquid alternative fuel to the combustion system. The vapor supply system is configured to channel a vapor alternative fuel to the combustion system. The combustion system is ignited by combusting the liquid alternative fuel from the liquid supply system and is operated by combusting the vapor alternative fuel from the vapor supply system.

System and methods for igniting and operating a gas turbine engine with alternative fuels

In a one embodiment, a gas turbine system that includes a first pump that supplies distillate fuel to a combustor. A second pump that supplies fuel oil to the combustor. A fuel selection unit that controls a first flow of distillate fuel and a second flow of fuel oil to the combustor. A controller that receives feedback from a sensor and in response to the feedback from the sensor controls the fuel selection unit to start the gas turbine system on the fuel oil.

Gas turbine fuel system

Liquid fuel supply system () for a combustion system (), in particular a gas turbine, including at least one storage tank () for liquid fuel supplying at least one injector () connected to a combustion chamber () of the combustion system (), said liquid fuel supply system () including a first piping section () disposed downstream of the tank () and a second piping section () disposed downstream of the first piping section () and upstream of fuel nozzle () in each combustion chamber (), said first piping section () including at least one pressurizing means (), and at least one injecting point or entering () for a water-soluble product, and the second piping section () including a mixing and distribution flow device () configured to create an emulsion and distributing the emulsion flow rate to at least one piping () connected to said nozzle ().

Systems for supplying liquid fuel emulsion to a combustion system of a gas turbine

A turbine engine comprising includes at least one combustor, a liquid fuel supply system, and a fuel additive injection system. The combustor is configured to combust liquid fuel. The liquid fuel supply system is configured to channel liquid fuel through at least one fuel line to the at least one combustor. The fuel additive injection system is coupled in fluid communication with the liquid fuel supply system. The fuel additive injection system includes a recirculation circuit configured to recirculate at least a portion of liquid fuel to the liquid fuel supply system. The fuel additive injection system is configured to channel chemical additive through the recirculation circuit for mixing with the at least a portion of liquid fuel to generate an additive fuel mixture configured to inhibit coke formation in the liquid fuel supply system.

Fuel additive injection system and methods for inhibiting coke formation

Systems and methods for rejecting waste heat generated by one or more operating systems installed on an aircraft employ an endothermic fuel that can participate in endothermic catalytic cracking at temperatures below about 80&#xb0; C. when exposed to a cracking catalyst that contains a superacid operative to induce low-temperature catalytic cracking of the branched alkanes. The endothermic fuel contains an effective amount of the branched alkanes so that a net endothermic effect is realized when the fuel is exposed to the cracking catalyst. The low-temperature, heat-consuming cracking of the branched alkanes increases the heat sink capacity of the endothermic fuel.

Systems and methods for using an endothermic fuel with a high heat sink capacity for aircraft waste heat rejection

A heat sink is used to absorb heat produced by a vehicle. The heat sink uses an endothermic catalytic alcohol dehydrogenation reaction to assist with the absorption of excess heat produced in the electronics of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the alcohol can be pre-heated by absorbing heat from various components of the vehicle. Excess heat from the various components or from the vehicle engine can be used to vaporize the reaction fluids in order to further absorb additional heat. Reaction fluids can also be sent to the vehicle's engine/burner for use as a supplemental fuel.

Catalytic alcohol dehydrogenation heat sink for mobile application

A system for rejecting heat from equipment using endothermic isomerization. includes a heat exchanger configured to receive an elevated-temperature process fluid and an isomerization compound capable of endothermic isomerization. When the system is in operation, heat from the elevated temperature process fluid is transferred to the isomerization compound and the isomerization compound endothermically isomerizes to a higher energy state form. A vehicle includes an engine and a body. The body houses a catalytic heat exchanger having an output in fluid communication with the engine, a pump for urging an isomerization compound into the heat exchanger, and a heat sink controller for controlling the pump. A method for rejecting heat from equipment using endothermic isomerization includes providing a compound capable of endothermic isomerization and transferring heat from a process fluid to the compound, such that the compound endothermically isomerizes to a higher energy level isomer.

System and method for rejecting heat from equipment via endothermic isomerization

Disclosed herein is a sorbent composition including an adsorbent support; and a metal component comprising a transition metal, wherein the metal component is impregnated on a surface of the adsorbent support; and wherein the metal component effects the removal of sulfur and vanadium from a hydrocarbon fuel. Also disclosed herein is a sorbent composition comprising an adsorbent support, wherein a surface of the adsorbent support has been chemically modified to comprise functional groups; and wherein the adsorbent support effects the removal of sulfur and vanadium from a hydrocarbon fuel.

Surface modified sorbent

A method of regenerating adsorbent material includes providing a spent adsorbent material and contacting the adsorbent material with a solvent composition to facilitate removing oil and impurities from the spent solvent material.

Methods for regeneration of adsorbent material

A system to detect a plurality of elements is proposed. The system includes one or more X-ray sources for transmitting X-rays towards a sample and also includes plurality of photon detectors. An array of crystals are arranged in a curvature with appropriate geometry for receiving a plurality of photon energies emitted from the sample and focusing the photon energy on the plurality of detectors. The plurality of photon detectors are spatially arranged at Bragg angles corresponding to signature photon energies to detect the plurality of elements simultaneously.

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