US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 23 for "Turbine engine including a condenser system" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,895, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine including a condenser system" was invented by Jeffrey D. Rambo (Mason, Ohio) and Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a fan and a turbo-engine having a combustor that combusts compressed air and fuel to generate combustion gases and a power turbine coupled to a shaft for driving the fan. The gas turbine engine includes a direct contact condenser for condensing steam in a first flow into liquid water droplets and to generate a second flow including the liquid wat...