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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2010
Timothy Russell Bilton, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Dean Matthew Erickson, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Brian Michael Gallagher, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Ravi Praveen Eluripati, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Rakesh Sivasankaran, Karnataka, IN;
Timothy Russell Bilton, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Dean Matthew Erickson, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Brian Michael Gallagher, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Ravi Praveen Eluripati, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Rakesh Sivasankaran, Karnataka, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system is provided and includes first and second water supplies at first and second relatively high and low temperatures, respectively, a heat exchanger, coupled to the water supplies, through which fuel and relative amounts of the water supplies at the first and second temperatures flow for fuel heating and a controller, operably interposed between the water supplies and the heat exchanger, to select and/or modulate the relative amounts of the water supplies permitted to flow through the heat exchanger to heat the fuel to a temperature based on a heating requirement to meet a modified wobbe index (MWI) rating.