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Claude P. Seippel
Claude P. Seippel
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In addition to the patent on the axial-flow compressor, Claude received patents covering turbocharging, gas turbine governing, and the pressure311
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In following years, he received patents for a gas turbine for aeronautical use, a device to rotate the wheels of an airplane before landing, methods for mass production of centrifugal blowers for supercharging of combustion engines, a method for regaining mechanical energy, a steam power plant with a feedwater heating system using extraction steam and exhaust gases, a steam generator with pressure firing, and a governing device for turbomachinery. It was also a highly productive period for CIaude's technical publications.
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His patents during this period ranged from devices to prevent overpressure to methods for calculating the allowable operating hours of thermal machines, and from improved blading for axial-flow turbines to a method of apparatus for the operation of nuclear reactors. His output of technical papers during this period was particularly prolific, most of them dealing with gas and steam turbines, but some particularly important ones concerned nuclear power.
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As a memorial to his achievements, Brown Boveri named its main research center at Daetwill after him. In the years before his death he was considered, in the words of a close associate, the "greatest living technical gray eminence of Switzerland." The author is proud to have known Claude Seippel for many years, and feels privileged to have spent hours discussing with him his thoughts on gas turbines and Velox boilers.
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