US Patent:
20180149363, May 31, 2018
Inventors:
- Schenectady NY, US
Mihir Lal - Greenville SC, US
James Harper - Greenville SC, US
Douglas Edward Dean - Greenville SC, US
Abhijit Prabhakar Kulkarni - HITEC City, IN
International Classification:
F23R 3/34
F02C 9/26
F02C 9/28
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for tuning combustion dynamics in a combustor. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method includes providing, via at least one sensor, combustion dynamics amplitude data associated with a combustor. Method may allow monitoring, by an equipment controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the combustion dynamics amplitude data. The method may allow detecting at least one change in acoustic pressure amplitude associated with combustion in the combustor. In response to detecting the change in the acoustic pressure amplitude, the method proceeds with determining a fuel split change to at least two fuel circuits configured to supply fuel to the combustor, and applying the fuel split change to the combustor.