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Changfeng Wu, Clemson, SC US
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| 20100044639 | STABILIZED CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES OF HYDROPHOBIC METAL COMPLEXES AND REPRECIPATION-ENCAPSULATION METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME - In one aspect, the invention relates to stable, luminescent, lanthanide-based nanoparticles and methods for making same. Thus, disclosed are lanthanide-based nanoparticles exhibiting a luminescence brightness of at least about 4%×(3×10 | 02-25-2010 |
Chunyang Wu, Greenville, SC US
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| 20120011854 | FLAME TOLERANT SECONDARY FUEL NOZZLE - A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of primary nozzles configured to diffuse or premix fuel into an air flow through the combustor; and a secondary nozzle configured to premix fuel with the air flow. Each premixing nozzle includes a center body, at least one vane, a burner tube provided around the center body, at least two cooling passages, a fuel cooling passage to cool surfaces of the center body and the at least one vane, and an air cooling passage to cool a wall of the burner tube. The cooling passages prevent the walls of the center body, the vane(s), and the burner tube from overheating during flame holding events. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120085100 | Combustor with a Lean Pre-Nozzle Fuel Injection System - The present application provides for a combustor for combusting a flow of fuel and a flow of air. The combustor may include a number of fuel nozzles, a lean pre-nozzle fuel injection system positioned upstream of the fuel nozzles, and a premixing annulus positioned between the fuel nozzles and the lean pre-nozzle fuel injection system to premix the flow of fuel and the flow of air. | 04-12-2012 |
Chunyang Wu, Greer, SC US
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| 20100162711 | DLN DUAL FUEL PRIMARY NOZZLE - The primary nozzles of a Dry Low NOx (DLN) combustor are configured to alternatively burn a first gas fuel or a second gas fuel, where the two gas fuels may have widely disparate energy content. Natural gas may be the first gas fuel and syngas may be the second gas fuel. An inner fuel circuit and an outer fuel circuit are provided to allow effective control of fuel/air mixing profiles, dynamics, primary pre-ignition and emission control by changing the fuel split between the two fuel circuits. The inner fuel circuit may be run in a diffusion combustion mode on many gas fuels. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110239652 | SEGMENTED ANNULAR RING-MANIFOLD QUATERNARY FUEL DISTRIBUTOR - A combustor section is provided and includes a segmented annular manifold mounted upstream from a fuel nozzle support in a section of a passage through which an oxidizer flows, each segment of the manifold being substantially axially aligned and including a body to accommodate fuel internally that is formed to define injection holes through which the fuel is injected into the passage through which the oxidizer flows upstream of the fuel nozzle support. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239653 | ANNULAR RING-MANIFOLD QUATERNARY FUEL DISTRIBUTOR - A combustor section is provided and includes one or more annular quaternary fuel manifolds mounted within an annular passage defined between a casing and a cap assembly of a combustor through which air and/or a fuel/air mixture flows upstream from a fuel nozzle support, the manifold including a body to accommodate quaternary fuel therein, the body defining injection holes through which the quaternary fuel is injected into a section of the passage at a location upstream from the fuel nozzle support. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120060511 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COOLING A COMBUSTOR CAP - A combustor includes an end cap having a perforated downstream plate and a combustion chamber downstream of the downstream plate. A plenum is in fluid communication with the downstream plate and supplies a cooling medium to the combustion chamber through the perforations in the downstream plate. A method for cooling a combustor includes flowing a cooling medium into a combustor end cap and impinging the cooling medium on a downstream plate in the combustor end cap. The method further includes flowing the cooling medium into a combustion chamber through perforations in the downstream plate. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120079829 | TURBOMACHINE INCLUDING A MIXING TUBE ELEMENT HAVING A VORTEX GENERATOR - A turbomachine includes a compressor section, a combustor operatively connected to the compressor section, an end cover mounted to the combustor, and an injection nozzle assembly operatively connected to the combustor. The injection nozzle assembly includes a plurality of mixing tube elements. Each of the plurality of mixing tube elements includes a conduit having a first fluid inlet, a second fluid inlet arranged downstream from the first fluid inlet, a discharge end arranged downstream from the first and second fluid inlets, and a vortex generator arranged between the first and second fluid inlets. The vortex generator is configured and disposed to create multiple vortices within the conduit to mix first and second fluids passing through each of the plurality of mixing tube elements. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120167578 | FLAME HOLDING INHIBITOR FOR A LEAN PRE-NOZZLE FUEL INJECTION DIFFUSER AND RELATED METHOD - A flame holding inhibitor includes a base portion and an upstanding support extending away from the base portion; at least one delta-wing-shaped flap on the upstanding support, each having a relatively pointed end and a relatively broad end. | 07-05-2012 |
Jennifer D. Wu, Mt. Pleasant, SC US
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| 20120315287 | MIC-BINDING ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The technology described herein relates to antibodies and/or polypeptides which bind to MIC and inhibit MIC shedding. Methods of using such antibodies and/or polypeptides for the treatment of cancer are also described herein. | 12-13-2012 |
Licia Wu, Cayce, SC US
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| 20080273206 | Biomimetic Mineralization Method and System - Disclosed are methods and systems that can be quickly and efficiently utilized to examine the kinetics of a growth and development protocol in a controlled environment, for instance in vivo. Disclosed systems can include a synthetic mineralization complex that can nucleate calcium phosphate mineral deposition in a controlled environment, for instance a controlled environment that can mimic a natural environment in which biomineralization takes place. Also disclosed are non-contact optical methods as may be utilized to examine the kinetics of a developing solid phase. Disclosed systems and methods can be beneficially utilized in high throughput screening in the development of drugs for the treatment and prevention of pathological calcifications such as osteoarthritis and atherosclerosis. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090124579 | Systems and Methods For Determination of Compounds for Stimulation or Inhibition of Neocalcification - Disclosed are systems and methods as may be used for development of compounds that can be utilized for prevention of pathological calcification. Disclosed are functional models can represent in great detail the first steps in protein-membrane interaction leading to calcification. Disclosed compounds include those that interfere with pathologic calcification processes and thus may be used as part of a formulation or composition for preventing pathological calcifications. Modeling methods and systems can include in vitro and/or in silico dynamic molecular modeling of biological materials including representative mineralization models in conjunction with substances that can affect normal or pathogenic calcification processes. Disclosed models can examine interactions of biological components involved in calcification including calcium, inorganic phosphate, phosphatidylserine, and annexin-5 protein. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090247647 | Method of Stimulating Proteoglycan Synthesis in Cells - A method of stimulating the production of proteoglycans in a living animal cell comprising administering one or more Vitamin D | 10-01-2009 |
Sheng-Yi Wu, Greer, SC US
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| 20100223931 | PATTERN COOLED COMBUSTOR LINER - A system, in one embodiment, includes a turbine combustor liner. The combustor liner includes a patterned surface at a downstream end portion relative to a downstream direction of combustion along a longitudinal axis of the turbine combustor liner. The patterned surface includes a plurality of discrete protrusions in both axial and circumferential directions about the downstream end portion relative to the longitudinal axis of the turbine combustion liner. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110247339 | COMBUSTOR HAVING A FLOW SLEEVE - A combustor is provided and includes a liner through which fluid fed from at least two injection points flows from a head end to an interior of a transition piece, a first one of the at least two injection points being axially proximate to a fluid impenetrable coupling between the liner and the transition piece and defining apertures disposed in fluid communication with a first passage leading to the head end, and a second one of the at least two injection points being disposed axially between the apertures and the head end and upstream from the apertures relative to a direction of fluid flow through the first passage, the second one of the at least two injection points being formed of openings disposed in fluid communication with a second passage leading to the head end. | 10-13-2011 |
Wengan Wu, Mt. Pleasant, SC US
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| 20090186200 | 2,5-DI(METHOXYANILINO) TEREPHTHALIC ACID POLYMORPHS AND QUINACRIDONES REALIZED THEREFROM - 2,5-di(p-methoxyanilino)terephthalic acid crystal types I and II are made by controlling the pH during the recovery of the oxidized product of the condensation of dimethylsuccinyl succinate with p-methoxyaniline. The resulting 2,5-di(p-methoxyanilino)-terephthalic acid can be converted into 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone or a solid solution thereof having controlled characteristics. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20110209643 | Novel Crystal Forms of Quinacridones Made from 2,9-Dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-Dichloroquinacridone - Novel crystal forms of solid solutions of 2,9-dimethyoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone. The crystal forms may be formed by a process comprising the steps of: a) heating a mixture of 2,5-di(4-methoxyanilino)terephthalic acid, and 2,5-di(4-chloroanilino)terephthalic acid in polyphorsphoric acid at a temperature less than 1050 C to form a mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone; b) combining the mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloro-quinacridone with water; and c) heating the mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone at a temperature not more than 110° C. Another crystal form may be formed by the process of heating a mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone in a polar aprotic solvent. These products are may be used for coloring fibers, plastics, paints, coatings, printing inks, color filters, cosmetics, automotive coatings, textiles, fibers, powder coatings, in-mold coatings, laminate films, and the like. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120260823 | NOVEL CRYSTAL FORMS OF QUINACRIDONES MADE FROM 2,9-DIMETHOXYQUINACRIDONE AND 2,9-DICHLOROQUINACRIDONE - Novel crystal forms of solid solutions of 2,9-dimethyoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone. The crystal forms may be formed by a process comprising the steps of: a) heating a mixture of 2,5-di(4-methoxyanilino)terephthalic acid, and 2,5-di(4-chloroanilino)terephthalic acid in polyphorsphoric acid at a temperature less than 1050 C to form a mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone; b) combining the mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone with water; and c) heating the mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone at a temperature not more than 110° C. Another crystal form may be formed by the process of heating a mixture of 2,9-dimethoxyquinacridone and 2,9-dichloroquinacridone in a polar aprotic solvent. These products are may be used for coloring fibers, plastics, paints, coatings, printing inks, color filters, cosmetics, automotive coatings, textiles, fibers, powder coatings, in-mold coatings, laminate films, and the like. | 10-18-2012 |
Yonnie Wu, Seneca, SC US
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| 20090162277 | Lysophospholipids Solubilized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes - Lipophilic compounds extracted from cell growth mediums, particularly lysophospholipids are used to solubilize single-walled nanotubes. The naturally occurring lysophospholipids were found to readily bond to the exterior wall of the single-walled nanotubes to enhance the biocompatibility of the single-walled nanotubes in therapeutic and diagnostic conditions. The solubilization protocol is simple, highly efficient, and results in a population of coated single-walled nanotubes which are highly stable. | 06-25-2009 |