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Granted Patent B2
US 9,175,606 · App. 12/996,864 · Granted Nov 3, 2015

Method for rinsing a fuel system of a gas turbine and associated fuel system

Inventors: Carsten Bassmann (Neuss, DE); Volker Ertle (Hattingen, DE); Michael Nienhaus (Borken, DE); Horst Uwe Rauh (Essen, DE); Damian Razowski (Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE); Uwe Scheuer (Mülheim, DE); Ulrich Wagner (Engelskirchen, DE)
Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
F02C7/232F02C7/222F23K5/18F01D25/002F05D2260/607F23K2301/203F23N2027/04Y10T137/0424
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Patent No.
US 9,175,606
App. No.
12/996,864
Granted
Nov 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for flushing a section of a fuel system of a burner of a gas turbine is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a feed line for feeding fuel from a fuel source to the burner, providing a first feed point close to the burner and a second feed point remote from the burner in the feed line in each case for feeding a medium into the feed line, feeding the medium via the first feed point, and discharging, via the burner, the fuel which is in the feed line between the first feed point and the burner, and also feeding the medium via the second feed point, and discharging, via the first feed point, the fuel which is in the feed line between the second feed point and the first feed point.

Claims (25)

1. A method for flushing a section of a fuel system of a burner of a gas turbine, comprising:

providing a feed line for feeding fuel from a fuel source to the burner;

providing a first feed point which is close to the burner and a second feed point which is remote from the burner in the feed line in each case for feeding a medium into the feed line via a first feed line or via a second feed line, respectively;

feeding the medium via the first feed point, and discharging via the burner, the fuel which is in the feed line between the first feed point and the burner; and

feeding the medium via the second feed point and discharging via the first feed point the fuel which is in the feed line between the second feed point and the first feed point into the first feed line,

wherein the fuel which is discharged into the first feed line is fed into a drainage line which branches off from the first feed line between the first feed point and a second control element, and

wherein the second control element is provided in a flow connection with the first feed line upstream of the first feed point for adjusting the throughflow to the first feed point,

wherein a third control element is provided in the second feed line upstream of the second feed point for adjusting the throughflow to the second feed point.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the feeding of the medium via the second feed point is carried out after the feeding of the medium via the first feed point.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fuel which is in the feed line between the second feed point and the first feed point is discharged via the first feed point into the drainage line.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein water is used as the medium.

5. A fuel system of a burner of a gas turbine, comprising:

a feed line for feeding fuel from a fuel source to the burner;

a first feed point which is close to the burner;

a second feed point which is remote from the burner;

a first control element,

wherein the first feed point and the second feed point are provided in each case for feeding a medium into the feed line,

wherein the first control element is provided in the feed line between the first feed point and the burner,

wherein a first feed line is led to the first feed point,

wherein a second feed line is led to the second feed point,

wherein a second control element is provided in a flow connection with the first feed line upstream of the first feed point for adjusting the throughflow to the first feed point,

wherein a third control element is provided in the second feed line upstream of the second feed point for adjusting the throughflow to the second feed point, and

wherein a discharge line, with a fourth control element arranged therein, is branched off from the first feed line between the first feed point and the second control element.

6. The fuel system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a fifth control element is provided in the feed line between the second feed point and the first feed point.

7. The fuel system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the second, third, fourth, and fifth control elements are grouped together as a multifunction control element, forming a constructional module.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2021
From: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 055950/0027 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 7, 2011
From: BASSMANN, CARSTEN; ERTLE, VOLKER; NIENHAUS, MICHAEL; RAUH, HORST UWE; RAZOWSKI, DAMIAN; SCHEUER, UWE; WAGNER, ULRICH
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 025910/0430 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2008 027 409 · Jun 9, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110146807A1 · Jun 23, 2011