Turbine-compressor assembly and method

US12152530B2 · 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
• Roy James Primus · Niskayuna, US
• Thomas Michael Lavertu · Ballston Lake, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 8, 2023
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2024
• Expiry date: May 8, 2043

Classification

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

Abstract

A turbine-compressor assembly includes a turbine-compressor device fluidly coupled with a heat source, a compressor, and a turbine via plural valves. A power device is coupled with the turbine-compressor device via a shaft. A controller can control operation of the plural valves to control the movement of fluids within the assembly to selectively switch between the turbine-compressor device operating in one of plural operating modes. In a first mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device can generate electrical power and direct the electrical power to the power device to control an amount of power provided to or extracted from the shaft by the power device. In a second mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device can receive electrical power from the power device to consumer the electrical power.