IP Library Granted Patent US 7,788,895
Granted Patent B2
US 7,788,895 · App. 11/480,555 · Granted Sep 7, 2010

Flashback-detecting equipment, flashback-detecting method and gas turbine

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Patent No.
US 7,788,895
App. No.
11/480,555
Granted
Sep 7, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

When a temperature of cooling steam being measured by a temperature-measuring device 13 in one combustor 2 - x among combustors 2 - 1 through 2 - 8 is confirmed to be higher than a temperature of a predetermined time before by a predetermined value and temperatures of cooling steams being measured by temperature-measuring devices 13 in combustors 2 - y and 2 - z being adjacent to the combustor 2 - x on both sides are confirmed to be lower than a temperature of a predetermined time before by a predetermined value, an occurrence of a flashback is detected in the combustor 2 - x.

Claims (12)

1. A flashback-detecting method for a gas turbine having at least one combustor which discharges combustion gas, the method comprising:

a first step of measuring a temperature of a cooling fluid circulating so as to cool the combustor; and

a second step of detecting an occurrence of a flashback in the combustor based on the temperature of the cooling fluid measured in the first step.

2. The flashback-detecting method for a gas turbine according to claim 1 , wherein

the second step includes a third step of confirming that a first temperature of the cooling fluid discharged from the combustor being measured at the present moment in the first step is higher than a second temperature of the cooling fluid measured in a first predetermined amount of time before the present moment by a first predetermined temperature or more.

3. The flashback-detecting method for a gas turbine according to claim 1 , the gas turbine having a plurality of combustors located at equally-spaced intervals, wherein the second step includes:

a fourth step of confirming that a third temperature of the cooling fluid discharged from a first combustor included in the combustors being measured at the present moment in the first step is higher than a fourth temperature of the cooling fluid measured in a first predetermined amount of time before the present moment by a first predetermined temperature or more; and

a fifth step of confirming that a fifth temperature of the cooling fluid discharged from second combustors on both sides of the first combustor being measured at the present moment in the first step is higher than a sixth temperature of the cooling fluid measured in the first predetermined amount of time before the present moment by a second predetermined temperature or more.

4. The flashback-detecting method for a gas turbine according to claim 2 , wherein the second step includes a sixth step of confirming that a condition in which the first temperature is higher than the second temperature by the first predetermined temperature or more continues during a second predetermined amount of time.

5. The flashback-detecting method for a gas turbine according to claim 3 , wherein the second step includes:

a seventh step of confirming that a condition in which the first temperature is higher than the second temperature by the first predetermined temperature or more continues during a second predetermined amount of time; and

an eighth step of confirming that a condition in which the third temperature is higher than the fourth temperature by the second predetermined temperature or more continues during the second predetermined amount of time.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035101/0029 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 5, 2006
From: FUJII, KENTARO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 018077/0688 →