Systems and methods related to detecting flame blowout occurences in gas turbines

A system for controlling an operation of a combustor (13,30) in a gas turbine (27) that includes: an acoustic sensor (62) configured to periodically measure a pressure of the combustor (13,30) and generate a raw data stream having the pressure data points resulting from the periodic measurements; an...

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Main Authors CAFFREY, Paul Oliver, ANDREWS, Peter Frank, REVIERE, Robert Daniel
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 14.11.2018
Subjects
AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
BLASTING
COMBUSTION APPARATUS
COMBUSTION ENGINES
COMBUSTION PROCESSES
CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
GAS-TURBINE PLANTS
HEATING
HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
LIGHTING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
WEAPONS
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Summary:A system for controlling an operation of a combustor (13,30) in a gas turbine (27) that includes: an acoustic sensor (62) configured to periodically measure a pressure of the combustor (13,30) and generate a raw data stream having the pressure data points resulting from the periodic measurements; and a blowout detection unit (75) configured to receive the raw data stream from the acoustic sensor (62). The blowout detection unit (75) may include a processor (81) and a machine-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that cause the processor (81) to execute a procedure related to a detection of a blowout precursor. The procedure may include an ensemble approach in which the detection of the blowout precursor depends upon a outcomes generated respectively by separate detection analytics.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20180171048