IP Library Granted Patent US 9,726,085
Granted Patent B2
US 9,726,085 · App. 14/445,627 · Granted Aug 8, 2017

Method for controlling a gas turbine group

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Patent No.
US 9,726,085
App. No.
14/445,627
Granted
Aug 8, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a gas turbine group including, a first combustion chamber, a first turbine connected, a second combustion chamber, a second turbine, and a load. The method includes: measuring a temperature TAT1 at an outlet of the first turbine; determining a ratio S1R of a fuel mass flow feeding a pilot flame of the first combustion chamber to a total fuel mass flow feeding the first combustion chamber based upon the measured temperature TAT1 in accordance with a predetermined mapping table between ratio S1R and temperature TAT1; adopting the larger one between the determined ratio S1R and a predetermined booster ratio S1R to be used in the controlling fuel flow feeding the first combustion chamber of the gas turbine group. Pulsation behavior of the gas turbine group may be improved. High pulsation during fast de-loading of the gas turbine group is substantially is decreased, avoiding potential damage to the parts of the gas turbine group.

Claims (14)

1. A method for controlling a gas turbine group comprising, in a flow direction of a working fluid, a first combustion chamber, a first turbine connected downstream of the first combustion chamber, a second combustion chamber connected downstream of the first turbine which operates by autoignition, a second turbine connected downstream of the second combustion chamber, and a load connected to be driven by the first and second turbines, the method comprising:

measuring a temperature TAT1 at an outlet of the first turbine;

determining a ratio S1R of a fuel mass flow feeding a pilot flame of the first combustion chamber to a total fuel mass flow feeding the first combustion chamber based upon the measured temperature TAT1 in accordance with a predetermined mapping table between ratio SIR and temperature TAT1;

adopting the larger one between the determined ratio S1R and a predetermined booster ratio S1R to be used in the controlling fuel mass flow feeding the first combustion chamber of the gas turbine group.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

measuring a de-loading gradient of the load when the load is decreasing;

determining that the measured de-loading gradient is greater than a predetermined de-loading gradient by which the load is subject to a regular de-loading process.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined mapping table are determined in a commissioning procedure, wherein the commissioning procedure comprises:

determining a first pulsation frequency and a second pulsation frequency larger than the first pulsation frequency at a given inlet guided vane in the gas turbine group;

measuring a discrete temperature TAT1 according to the discretely varying ratio S1R when the first or second pulsation frequency is observed in the gas turbine during the commissioning procedure of the gas turbine, where the ratio S1R corresponding to the maximum of the temperature TAT1 is determined as the nose ratio S1R;

storing the temperature TAT1 and corresponding ratio S1R as the mapping table for subsequent use.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined booster ratio S1R equals to 1.1 to 1.5 times of the nose ratio S1R.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined booster ratio S1R equals to 1.2 to 1.4 times of the nose ratio S1R.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined booster ratio S1R equals to 1.3 times of the nose ratio S1R.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2017
From: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
To: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
Reel/Frame 041686/0884 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 22, 2016
From: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
To: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Reel/Frame 038216/0193 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2014
From: LIPARI, SEBASTIAN; SINGLA, GHISLAIN; MEEUWISSEN, THIEMO; FERREIRA-PROVIDAKIS, THEODOROS
To: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
Reel/Frame 034061/0624 →