Turbine-compressor assembly and method

US11680517B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Transportation IP Holdings, LLC · US

Inventors

• Neil Xavier Blythe · North East, US
• Pradheepram Ottikkutti · Erie, US
• Rogier Giepman · Garching an der Alz, DE
• Michael Majewski · Joliet, US
• Kevin McElhaney · Erie, US
• Najeeb M. Kuzhiyil · Lawrence Park, US
• Adam Edgar Klingbeil · Ballston Lake, US
• Adam Felton · Grove City, US
• Christopher Joseph Homison · Wattsburg, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 9, 2022
• Grant date: Jun 20, 2023
• Expiry date: Jun 9, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a turbine-compressor assembly of a system having a turbine-compressor device fluidly coupled with a heat source, a compressor, and a turbine via plural valves. A power device may be coupled with the turbine-compressor device. A controller may control operation of the plural valves to control movement of fluids within the assembly to selectively switch between the turbine-compressor device operating in one of plural modes. In a turbine mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device may generate electrical power and direct the electrical power to the power device. In a compressor mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device may receive electrical power from the power device to consume the electrical power.