US Patent Issued to General Electric on Sept. 2 for "Combustor size rating for a gas turbine engine using hydrogen fuel" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,007, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustor size rating for a gas turbine engine using hydrogen fuel" was invented by Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati) and Manampathy G. Giridharan (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a hydrogen fuel delivery assembly configured to deliver a hydrogen fuel flow, a compressor section configured to compress air flowing therethrough to provide a compressed air flow, and a combustor including a combustion chamber having a burner length and a burner dome height. The combustion chamber is configured to combust a mixture of the...