US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Feb. 4 for "Method of operating a gas turbine combustor comprising injecting a diluent into the primary and secondary combustion zones" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,870, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Method of operating a gas turbine combustor comprising injecting a diluent into the primary and secondary combustion zones" was invented by Manampathy G. Giridharan (Mason, Ohio) and Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor for combusting a fuel, and a turbine. Compressed air flows through a combustion liner of the combustor in a bulk airflow direction. The combustor includes a primary fuel nozzle and a secondary fuel nozzle. The secondary fuel nozzle is downstream of ...