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公开(公告)号:CA2859772A1
公开(公告)日:2013-06-27
申请号:CA2859772
申请日:2012-12-19
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: PATTERSON CURTIS , JUAN ALEJANDRO , GOTTFRIED KRISTJAN , FARRELL ERIK
Abstract: Provided herein are multiple variations, applications, and variations for producing electrical power from a flowing fluid such as a gas or liquid under pressure, for example natural gas flowing through a pipeline, by means of one or more positive displacement devices that drive one or more electrical generators. The electrical generators may be immersed in the flow stream together with the positive displacement devices as disclosed, or alternately may be isolated from the flow stream, such as by magnetic coupling, in order to promote longevity and to decrease the risk of accidental discharge or explosion of the fluid in the flow stream. To further decrease such risks, the positive displacement devices may isolate the drive fluid from the environment without the use of dynamic seals.
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公开(公告)号:CA2834285A1
公开(公告)日:2012-11-01
申请号:CA2834285
申请日:2012-04-27
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: FARSHCHIAN SOHEIL
Abstract: A method of controlling operation of a pressure gain combustor comprises: determining a fuel injector duty cycle and a combustion frequency that meets a target load set point and a target fill fraction of the combustor; determining a fuel supply pressure setting, a fuel injector timing setting and an ignition timing setting that achieves the determined fuel injector duty cycle and combustion frequency; and sending a fuel supply pressure control signal with the fuel supply pressure setting to a fuel pressurizing means of the combustor, a fuel injector control signal with the fuel injector timing setting to a fuel injector of the combustor, and an ignition timing control signal with the ignition timing setting to an ignition assembly of the combustor.
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公开(公告)号:CA2803250A1
公开(公告)日:2011-12-22
申请号:CA2803250
申请日:2011-06-17
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: GOTTFRIED KRISTJAN , JUAN ALEJANDRO , PATTERSON CURTIS
Abstract: Disclosed herein are several embodiments for shroud arrangements to be used in rotary engines using a plurality of rotors within the shroud arrangement. At least one of the rotors is not fixed to the shroud.
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公开(公告)号:MX2011002829A
公开(公告)日:2011-04-05
申请号:MX2011002829
申请日:2009-09-17
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: ALEJANDRO JUAN , PATTERSON CURTIS , GOTTFRIED KRISTJAN , FARSHCHIAN SOHEIL
Abstract: Un sistema de movimiento gradual para un ensamble de rotor, en el que el sistema de movimiento gradual puede regular la ubicación rotacional de los rotores de acción, que están configurados para girar alrededor de una flecha, en una forma.
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公开(公告)号:CA2764228A1
公开(公告)日:2010-12-09
申请号:CA2764228
申请日:2010-06-03
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: JUAN ALEJANDRO , PATTERSON CURTIS , FARSHCHIAN SOHEIL
Abstract: The disclosed finger seals are designed to be operational under rotational velocity or a stationary condition. The contact surface of the finger seals is inclined in an axial direction. This incline causes a convergent leakage path between the finger foot surface and the bore. Therefore, the leakage flow passing through this gap exerts hydrodynamic lift on the finger and lifts the finger from the bore surface at design pressure. Since the slope is in the axial direction, the rotational velocity of the bore does not affect the hydrodynamic lift and the finger seals can operate at any rotational speed, unlike prior finger seal where the hydrodynamic lift is generated by rotational velocity. Each finger seal is pressure balanced. The pressure chambers on the two sides of each finger seal are connected through the finger cutouts. The finger seal design is such that the fingers lift and move away from the bore surface in radial direction. Therefore, the angle between the finger seal foot and the bore is constant at any lifted distance. In each seal stack up, in one form, each finger seal is designed with the specific required length to allow sufficient surface area for the hydrodynamic force such that the finger seals would be lifted from the bore surface at the design pressure.
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公开(公告)号:CA2903906A1
公开(公告)日:2014-09-18
申请号:CA2903906
申请日:2014-03-17
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: JUAN ALEJANDRO , PATTERSON CURTIS , FARRELL ERIK , SCOTT STEPHEN , FIOLKA KYLE
Abstract: This disclosure concerns an advanced nutating positive displacement device having a high power to mass ratio and low production cost. This device in one example forms an exemplary pump as will be discussed in detail. The examples disclosed herein are of the rotary positive displacement type, but in a class by themselves. The devices are formed by a nutating rotor having a face comprising lobes and valleys, and a fixed stator also having a face with lobes and valleys. The face of the rotor opposes and cooperates with the face of the stator. The opposing faces define chambers that change volume with rotation of the rotor.
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公开(公告)号:AU2014202553A1
公开(公告)日:2014-06-05
申请号:AU2014202553
申请日:2014-05-12
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: JUAN ALEJANDRO , PATTERSON CURTIS , GOTTFRIED KRISTJAN , FARSHCHIAN SOHEIL
Abstract: A pulse detonation device comprising: a) a mixing chamber in fluid communication with an oxidant inlet, the mixing chamber further in 5 communication with a fuel line, b) a diffuser configured to receive a fuel/oxidant mixture from the mixing chamber, c) a detonation region downstream of the diffuser, where the detonation region is configured with an ignition location that provides sufficient activation energy to ignite the fuel/oxidant mixture, d) whereby the expanding, combusted gas of the fuel/oxidant mixture travels down the 10 detonation region to an exit location.
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公开(公告)号:CA2890151A1
公开(公告)日:2014-05-15
申请号:CA2890151
申请日:2013-11-07
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: JUAN ALEJANDRO
IPC: F23N5/00
Abstract: A pressure gain combustor comprises a detonation chamber, a pre-combustion chamber, an oxidant swirl generator, an expansion-deflection (E-D) nozzle, and an ignition source. The detonation chamber has an upstream intake end and a downstream discharge end, and is configured to allow a supersonic combustion event to propagate therethrough. The pre-combustion chamber has a downstream end in fluid communication with the detonation chamber intake end, an upstream end in communication with a fuel delivery pathway, and a circumferential perimeter between the upstream and downstream ends with an annular opening in communication with an annular oxidant delivery pathway. The oxidant swirl generator is located in the oxidant delivery pathway and comprises vanes configured to cause oxidant flowing past the vanes to flow tangentially into the pre-combustion chamber thereby creating a high swirl velocity zone around the annular opening and a low swirl velocity zone in a central portion of the pre-combustion chamber. The E-D nozzle is positioned in between the pre-combustion chamber and detonation chamber and provides a diffusive fluid pathway therebetween. The ignition source is in communication with the low swirl velocity zone of the pre-combustion chamber. This configuration is expected to provide a combustor with a relatively low total run- up DDT distance and time, thereby enabling high operating frequencies and corresponding high combustor performance.
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公开(公告)号:SG194353A1
公开(公告)日:2013-11-29
申请号:SG2013070081
申请日:2009-09-17
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: JUAN ALEJANDRO , PATTERSON CURTIS , GOTTFRIED KRISTJAN , FARSHCHIAN SOHEIL
Abstract: 70 An indexing system for a rotor assembly where the indexing system can regulate the rotational location of drive rotors that are configured to rotate about a shaft in one form.[FIG .32]
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公开(公告)号:CA2833593A1
公开(公告)日:2012-10-26
申请号:CA2833593
申请日:2012-04-20
Applicant: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: PATTERSON CURTIS , JUAN ALEJANDRO , GOTTFRIED KRISTJAN
Abstract: The present disclosure describes the use of involute curves for use in energy conversion devices, as well as timing or indexing gears. Several different embodiments are shown using rotors of several examples of lobe numbers and shapes.
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