State determining device, operation controlling device, gas turbine, and state determining method
A state determining device determines a state of a gas turbine connected to an electric generator. The gas turbine includes a compressor that compresses intake air into compression air, a fuel supply device that supplies fuel, a combustor that mixes the compression air supplied from the compressor and the fuel supplied from the fuel supply device and combusts a resultant mixture to generate combustion gas, and a turbine that is rotated with the generated combustion gas.
1. A controlling device comprising:
a state determining device that determines a state of a gas turbine connected to an electric generator, the gas turbine comprising a compressor that compresses intake air into compression air, a fuel supply device that supplies fuel, a combustor that mixes the compression air supplied from the compressor and the fuel supplied from the fuel supply device and combusts a resultant mixture to generate combustion gas, and a turbine that is rotated with the generated combustion gas,
the state determining device including:
a hardware processor configured to
detect a change rate of a fuel-flow instruction value of fuel to be supplied from the fuel supply device to the combustor,
detect a change rate of an output of the electric generator, and
determine whether the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator are proportional to each other based on the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator;
wherein the controlling device is configured to control the gas turbine based on the fuel-flow instruction value and the output of the electric generator, and
wherein the controlling device includes a turbine-inlet-temperature calculating unit configured to calculate an estimation value of a turbine inlet temperature based on a value of the output of the electric generator,
the controlling device changes a value of a detected output of the electric generator to a value with smaller fluctuation when the state determining device has determined that an operation of the gas turbine departs from a predetermined relation, and
the turbine-inlet-temperature calculating unit calculates the estimation value of the turbine inlet temperature based on the changed value with a smaller fluctuation.
2. A gas turbine comprising:
a compressor that compresses intake air into compression air;
a fuel supply device that supplies fuel;
a combustor that mixes the compression air supplied from the compressor and the fuel supplied from the fuel supply device and combusts a resultant mixture to generate combustion gas;
a turbine that is rotated with the generated combustion gas; and
the controlling device according to claim 1 .
3. The controlling device according to claim 1 , wherein
the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value is a difference between a detection value of the fuel-flow instruction value that is latest and a detection value of the fuel-flow instruction value that is before a predetermined time, and
the change rate of the output of the electric generator is a difference between a detection value of the output that is latest and a detection value of the output that is before a predetermined time.
4. The controlling device according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is further configured to determine, when a difference between the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and a value obtained by multiplexing the change rate of the output of the electric generator with a predetermined constant or a difference between a value obtained by multiplexing the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value with a predetermine constant and the change rate of the output of the electric generator is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, that an operation of the gas turbine departs from a relation in which the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator can be regarded as proportional to each other.
5. The controlling device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first-order lag filter and a subtracter, and that outputs a fuel-flow instruction signal that is latest and a fuel-flow instruction signal that is before a predetermined time and that is output from the first-order lag filter.
6. The controlling device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first-order lag filter and a subtracter, and that outputs an output of the electric generator that is latest and an output of the electric generator that is before a predetermined time and that is output from the first-order lag filter.
7. A control device, comprising:
a state determining device that determines a state of a gas turbine connected to an electric generator, the gas turbine comprising a compressor that compresses intake air into compression air, a fuel supply device that supplies fuel, a combustor that mixes the compression air supplied from the compressor and the fuel supplied from the fuel supply device and combusts a resultant mixture to generate combustion gas, and a turbine that is rotated with the generated combustion gas,
the state determining device including:
a hardware processor configured to
detect a change rate of a fuel-flow instruction value of fuel to be supplied from the fuel supply device to the combustor,
detect a change rate of an output of the electric generator, and
determine whether the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator are proportional to each other based on the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator;
wherein the controlling device is configured to control the gas turbine based on the fuel-flow instruction value and the output of the electric generator, and
wherein the controlling device includes a turbine-inlet-temperature calculating unit configured to calculate an estimation value of a turbine inlet temperature based on a value of the output of the electric generator, and
the turbine-inlet-temperature calculating unit uses, when the state determining device determines that the operation of the gas turbine departs from a relation in which the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator are proportional to each other, a fuel-flow instruction value that is before a predetermined time for a value of the output of the electric generator to calculate the estimation value of the turbine inlet temperature.
8. A control device, comprising:
a state determining device that determines a state of a gas turbine connected to an electric generator, the gas turbine comprising a compressor that compresses intake air into compression air, a fuel supply device that supplies fuel, a combustor that mixes the compression air supplied from the compressor and the fuel supplied from the fuel supply device and combusts a resultant mixture to generate combustion gas, and a turbine that is rotated with the generated combustion gas,
the state determining device including:
a hardware processor configured to
detect a change rate of a fuel-flow instruction value of fuel to be supplied from the fuel supply device to the combustor,
detect a change rate of an output of the electric generator, and
determine whether the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator are proportional to each other based on the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator;
wherein the controlling device configured to control the gas turbine based on the fuel-flow instruction value and the output of the electric generator, and
wherein the controlling device includes a turbine-inlet-temperature calculating unit configured to calculate an estimation value of a turbine inlet temperature based on a value of the output of the electric generator, and
the turbine-inlet-temperature calculating unit changes, when the state determining device determines that the operation of the gas turbine departs from a relation in which the change rate of the fuel-flow instruction value and the change rate of the output of the electric generator are proportional to each other, a calculated estimation value of the turbine inlet temperature to a value with smaller fluctuation based on a value of the output of the electric generator.