ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,919, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Power Systems Mfg. LLC (Jupiter, Fla.).
"Exhaust cooling injection for improved turndown" was invented by Hany Rizkalla (Stuart, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine including an exhaust bleed (ExB) system and methods of operating the same to achieve increased turndown while maintaining emissions under a compliance limit. The method includes continuously decreasing a load of the gas turbine engine below a base load, and, as the load is continually decreased, continuously determining a reference load. When the reference load reaches a first threshold value, the method include...