US Patent Issued to Powerphase International on Oct. 6 for "Methods of modifying existing gas turbine engine design to create a combined storage engine and simple cycle peaker product" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,719, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Powerphase International LLC (Hobe Sound, Fla.).

"Methods of modifying existing gas turbine engine design to create a combined storage engine and simple cycle peaker product" was invented by Robert J. Kraft (Tequesta, Fla.) and Joshua J. Kraft (Tequesta, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method of modifying an existing gas turbine to create a storage engine is provided. The gas turbine has a combustor, a compressor section, and a turbine section. The method comprises the step of modifying the compressor section of the gas turbine to form the storage engine. Air supplied to t...