EDWARD VINCENT SOMERS
Engineers in Murrysville, PA

4148185, Apr 10, 1979

Aug 15, 1977

5/824591

Edward V. Somers - Murrysville PA

Westinghouse Electric Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

F02C 318

60 3917

A gas turbine power generating system comprising, in the preferred embodiment, three gas turbine engines in series-connected flow communication employing high pressure hydrogen and oxygen as the fuel. Pre-heated pressurized steam (or a steam and water mixture) is fed to the initial gas turbine combustor for combustion coolant. Steam, consisting of the products of combustion plus the vaporized coolant, is exhausted from the first turbine into the combustor of the next turbine for re-heating via the combustion therein of the high pressure hydrogen and oxygen. The exhaust steam from the intermediate turbine is in turn re-heated in the combustor of the final turbine. The final exhaust steam is then passed through a recuperative heat exchanger to pre-heat the pressurized cooling water so that, when injected into the first combustor, it is vaporized prior to entering the first turbine.

4342816, Aug 3, 1982

Apr 22, 1981

6/256419

Richard E. Kothmann - Churchill Boro PA
Edward V. Somers - Murrysville PA

The United States of America as represented by the United States
Department of Energy - Washington DC

H01M 800

429 13

Arrangements of stacks of fuel cells and ducts, for fuel cells operating with separate fuel, oxidant and coolant streams. An even number of stacks are arranged generally end-to-end in a loop. Ducts located at the juncture of consecutive stacks of the loop feed oxidant or fuel to or from the two consecutive stacks, each individual duct communicating with two stacks. A coolant fluid flows from outside the loop, into and through cooling channels of the stack, and is discharged into an enclosure duct formed within the loop by the stacks and seals at the junctures at the stacks.

4374184, Feb 15, 1983

Sep 29, 1981

6/306810

Edward V. Somers - Murrysville PA
Arnold O. Isenberg - Pittsburgh PA

Westinghouse Electric Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

H01M 806

429 17

Solid oxide electrolyte fuel cell generators which are operable to reform in-situ a gaseous medium and to utilize the products of the reformation as fuel. A portion of the reformation preferably occurs along an electrochemically inactive extension of each fuel cell.

4812373, Mar 14, 1989

Apr 16, 1986

6/852865

Ralph E. Grimble - Finleyville PA
Edward V. Somers - Murrysville PA

Westinghouse Electric Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

H01M 818

429 19

A fuel cell generator is made containing a plurality of fuel cells and fuel feed conduits exterior to and disposed between the fuel cells to distribute unreformed fuel feed to the exterior surface of the fuel cells, where the exterior surface of the fuel cells is effective to reform the fuel feed.