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Improved ceramic heat exchanger material

Description: Various ceramic materials in the form of small, monolithic bars were screened as candidate materials in heat exchanger structures for automotive gas turbine engines. The material finally selected consists of 60 w/o* petalite (LAS) and 40 w/o of a recrystallizable glass which converts during thermal processing to cordierite (MAS). This new material, GE-3200, was fabricated by Coors Porcelain Company into a circular honeycomb structure 53.3 cm diameter and 10.2 cm thick (21'' x 4'') and having 69… more
Date: November 1, 1977
Creator: Rauch, H. W., Sr.
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Cooperative Research and Development for Advanced Microturbines Program on Advanced Integrated Microturbine System

Description: The Advanced Integrated Microturbine Systems (AIMS) project was kicked off in October of 2000 to develop the next generation microturbine system. The overall objective of the project was to develop a design for a 40% electrical efficiency microturbine system and demonstrate many of the enabling technologies. The project was initiated as a collaborative effort between several units of GE, Elliott Energy Systems, Turbo Genset, Oak Ridge National Lab and Kyocera. Since the inception of the project… more
Date: May 30, 2007
Creator: Bowman, Michael J.
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Solair heater program: solair applications study. Final report

Description: General Electric has designed and tested a low-cost solar system using a vacuum tube solar air heater under ERDA Contract E(11-1)-2705. This contract extension has been provided to evaluate various applications of this solar collector. The evaluation identified attractive applications, evaluated corresponding control procedures, estimated system performance, compared economically insolation and insulation, and evaluated the repackaging of off-the-shelf equipment for improved cost effectiveness.… more
Date: December 1, 1977
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Grover Cleveland School, Boston, Massachusetts. Refurbishment and status report

Description: The solar heating system is a retrofit installation on the roof of the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Boston. The system consists of a 4600 square foot solar collector array, a 2,000 gallon thermal energy storage (TES) tank, two liquid-to-air heating coils, three pumps (one being redundant), and various associated motorized valves, piping, controls, etc. The school's existing heating system utilized roof-mounted, electrically-heated air handlers to provide forced circulation of warm air. The… more
Date: April 1, 1977
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Solair heater program: solair applications study test program. Final report

Description: Three prototypes of low cost solar forced air heating using evacuated tube collectors for application to hot water and space heating were tested in various climates in the US during the period winter/spring 1976/1977. The data acquisition and data analysis are reported. (MHR)
Date: December 1, 1977
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Harsh-Environment Packaging for Downhole Gas and Oil Exploration

Description: This research into new packaging materials and methods for elevated temperatures and harsh environment electronics focused on gaining a basic understanding of current state-of-the-art in electronics packaging used in industry today, formulating the thermal-mechanical models of the material interactions and developing test structures to confirm these models. Discussions were initiated with the major General Electric (GE) businesses that currently sell into markets requiring high temperature elec… more
Date: August 31, 2007
Creator: Bansal, Shubhra; Cho, Junghyun; Durocher, Kevin; Kapusta, Chris; Knobloch, Aaron; Shaddock, David et al.
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Harsh-Environment Solid-State Gamma Detector for Down-hole Gas and Oil Exploration

Description: The goal of this program was to develop a revolutionary solid-state gamma-ray detector suitable for use in down-hole gas and oil exploration. This advanced detector would employ wide-bandgap semiconductor technology to extend the gamma sensor's temperature capability up to 200 C as well as extended reliability, which significantly exceeds current designs based on photomultiplier tubes. In Phase II, project tasks were focused on optimization of the final APD design, growing and characterizing th… more
Date: August 10, 2007
Creator: Sandvik, Peter; Soloviev, Stanislav; Andarawis, Emad; Cha, Ho-Young; Rose, Jim; Durocher, Kevin et al.
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Distributed Fiber Optic Gas Sensing for Harsh Environment

Description: This report summarizes work to develop a novel distributed fiber-optic micro-sensor that is capable of detecting common fossil fuel gases in harsh environments. During the 32-month research and development (R&D) program, GE Global Research successfully synthesized sensing materials using two techniques: sol-gel based fiber surface coating and magnetron sputtering based fiber micro-sensor integration. Palladium nanocrystalline embedded silica matrix material (nc-Pd/Silica), nanocrystalline p… more
Date: March 14, 2008
Creator: Wu, Juntao
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Feasibility Study of Hydrogen Production from Existing Nuclear Power Plants Using Alkaline Electrolysis

Description: The mid-range industrial market currently consumes 4.2 million metric tons of hydrogen per year and has an annual growth rate of 15% industries in this range require between 100 and 1000 kilograms of hydrogen per day and comprise a wide range of operations such as food hydrogenation, electronic chip fabrication, metals processing and nuclear reactor chemistry modulation.
Date: December 31, 2008
Creator: Swalla, Dana R.
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Energy use in office buildings

Description: This is the report on Task IB, Familiarization with Additional Data Collection Plans of Annual Survey of BOMA Member and Non-Member Buildings in 20 Cities, of the Energy Use in Office Buildings project. The purpose of the work was to monitor and understand the efforts of the Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) in gathering an energy-use-oriented data base. In order to obtain an improved data base encompassing a broad spectrum of office space and with information suitab… more
Date: October 1, 1980
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Product Characterization for Entrained Flow Coal/Biomass Co-Gasification

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL) is exploring affordable technologies and processes to convert domestic coal and biomass resources to high-quality liquid hydrocarbon fuels. This interest is primarily motivated by the need to increase energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Gasification technologies represent clean, flexible and efficient conversion pathways to utilize coal and biomass resources. Substantial experi… more
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Maghzi, Shawn; Subramanian, Ramanathan; Rizeq, George; Singh, Surinder; McDermott, John; Eiteneer, Boris et al.
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Clean and Efficient Diesel Engine

Description: Task 1 was to design study for fuel-efficient system configuration. The objective of task 1 was to perform a system design study of locomotive engine configurations leading to a 5% improvement in fuel efficiency. Modeling studies were conducted in GT-Power to perform this task. GT-Power is an engine simulation tool that facilitates modeling of engine components and their system level interactions. It provides the capability to evaluate a variety of engine technologies such as exhaust gas circul… more
Date: December 31, 2010
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Advanced Hybrid Propulsion and Energy Management System for High Efficiency, Off Highway, 240 Ton Class, Diesel Electric Haul Trucks

Description: The objective of this project is to reduce the fuel consumption of off-highway vehicles, specifically large tonnage mine haul trucks. A hybrid energy storage and management system will be added to a conventional diesel-electric truck that will allow capture of braking energy normally dissipated in grid resistors as heat. The captured energy will be used during acceleration and motoring, reducing the diesel engine load, thus conserving fuel. The project will work towards a system validation of t… more
Date: December 31, 2008
Creator: Richter, Tim; Slezak, Lee; Johnson, Chris; Young, Henry & Funcannon, Dan
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Product Characterization for Entrained Flow Coal/Biomass Co-Gasification

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL) is exploring affordable technologies and processes to convert domestic coal and biomass resources to high-quality liquid hydrocarbon fuels. This interest is primarily motivated by the need to increase energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Gasification technologies represent clean, flexible and efficient conversion pathways to utilize coal and biomass resources. Substantial expe… more
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Maghzi, Shawn; Subramanian, Ramanathan; Rizeq, George; Singh, Surinder; McDermott, John; Eiteneer, Boris et al.
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Novel High Capacity Oligomers for Low Cost CO2 Capture

Description: The novel concept of using a molecule possessing both physi-sorbing and chemi-sorbing properties for post-combustion CO2 capture was explored and mixtures of aminosilicones and hydroxyterminated polyethers had the best performance characteristics of materials examined. The optimal solvent composition was a 60/40 blend of GAP-1/TEG and a continuous bench-top absorption/desorption unit was constructed and operated. Plant and process models were developed for this new system based on an existing c… more
Date: September 30, 2010
Creator: Perry, Robert; Grocela-Rocha, Teresa; O'Brien, Michael; Genovese, Sarah; Wood, Benjamin; Lewis, Larry et al.
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Novel Nanophosphors for High Efficiency Fluorescent Lamps

Description: This is the Final Report of the Novel Nanophosphors for High Efficiency Fluorescent Lamps, Department of Energy (DOE). The overall goal of this three-year program is to develop novel hybrid phosphors by coating commercially available lamp phosphors with highly stable wide band-gap nanocrystalline phosphors (NCP). The prime technical approach is the development of NCP quantum-splitting phosphor (QSP) and ultra-violet (UV) emitting phosphors with quantum efficiencies exceeding that of the convent… more
Date: March 31, 2007
Creator: Srivatava, Alok
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Seca Coal-Based Systems Program

Description: This report summarizes the progress made during the August 1, 2006 - May 31, 2008 award period under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC26-05NT42614 for the U. S. Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (USDOE/NETL) entitled 'SECA Coal Based Systems'. The initial overall objective of this program was to design, develop, and demonstrate multi-MW integrated gasification fuel cell (IGFC) power plants with >50% overall efficiency from coal (HHV) to AC power. The focus of the program w… more
Date: May 31, 2008
Creator: Alinger, Matthew
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Integrated Sensing and Controls for Coal Gasification - Development of Model-Based Controls for GE's Gasifier and Syngas Cooler

Description: This report summarizes the achievements and final results of this program. The objective of this program is to develop a comprehensive systems approach to integrated design of sensing and control systems for an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) plant, using advanced model-based techniques. In particular, this program is focused on the model-based sensing and control system design for the core gasification section of an IGCC plant. The overall approach consists of (i) developing a fi… more
Date: December 30, 2010
Creator: Kumar, Aditya
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Melt Infiltrated Ceramic Matrix Composites for Shrouds and Combustor Liners of Advanced Industrial Gas Turbines

Description: This report covers work performed under the Advanced Materials for Advanced Industrial Gas Turbines (AMAIGT) program by GE Global Research and its collaborators from 2000 through 2010. A first stage shroud for a 7FA-class gas turbine engine utilizing HiPerComp{reg_sign}* ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material was developed. The design, fabrication, rig testing and engine testing of this shroud system are described. Through two field engine tests, the latter of which is still in progress at a J… more
Date: January 7, 2011
Creator: Corman, Gregory; Luthra, Krishan; Jonkowski, Jill; Mavec, Joseph; Bakke, Paul; Haught, Debbie et al.
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Premixer Design for High Hydrogen Fuels

Description: This 21-month project translated DLN technology to the unique properties of high hydrogen content IGCC fuels, and yielded designs in preparation for a future testing and validation phase. Fundamental flame characterization, mixing, and flame property measurement experiments were conducted to tailor computational design tools and criteria to create a framework for predicting nozzle operability (e.g., flame stabilization, emissions, resistance to flashback/flame-holding and auto-ignition). This f… more
Date: December 16, 2005
Creator: Lacy, Benjamin P.; McManus, Keith R.; Varatharajan, Balachandar & Shome, Biswadip
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Systems Study for Improving Gas Turbine Performance for Coal/IGCC Application

Description: This study identifies vital gas turbine (GT) parameters and quantifies their influence in meeting the DOE Turbine Program overall Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) plant goals of 50% net HHV efficiency, $1000/kW capital cost, and low emissions. The project analytically evaluates GE advanced F class air cooled technology level gas turbine conceptual cycle designs and determines their influence on IGCC plant level performance including impact of Carbon capture. This report summarizes … more
Date: December 16, 2005
Creator: Anand, Ashok K.
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Hybrid 320 Ton Off Highway Haul Truck: Quarterly Technical Status Report 11, DOE/AL68080-TSR11

Description: This eleventh quarterly status report for the Hybrid Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) project, DOE Award DE-FC04-02AL68080 presents the project status at the end of June 2005, and covers activities in the eleventh project quarter, April 2005-June 2005.
Date: September 26, 2005
Creator: Richter, Tim
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