Gas turbine, gas turbine control device, and gas turbine cooling method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10267153-B2
Application number	US-201515108048-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2015
Priority date	Feb 3, 2014
Publication date	Apr 23, 2019
Grant date	Apr 23, 2019

Abstract

A gas turbine includes a cooling air supply passage which supplies compressed air bled from a compressor to a disk cavity of a turbine, a cooler side valve in the cooling air supply passage, a temperature measurement unit which measures ambient temperature of the disk cavity, and a control device which adjusts an opening degree of the cooler side valve based on the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit. The control device includes a first valve opening degree setting value and a second valve opening degree setting value larger than the first valve opening degree setting value of the cooler side valve, the first valve opening degree setting value is used when the ambient temperature is lower than a predetermined switching temperature, and the second valve opening degree setting value is used when the ambient temperature is higher than the switching temperature.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gas turbine comprising:
a compressor which compresses air;
a combustor which burns a mixture of a fuel and the air compressed by the compressor;
a turbine which obtains rotational power by a combustion gas generated by the combustor;
a cooling air supply passage which supplies air bled from the compressor to a disk cavity of the turbine;
an opening/closing valve which is provided in the cooling air supply passage;
a temperature measurement unit which measures an ambient temperature of the disk cavity; and
a control device which adjusts an opening degree of the opening/closing valve based on the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit, wherein
the control device includes a first valve opening degree setting value and a second valve opening degree setting value larger than the first valve opening degree setting value of the opening/closing valve,
the second valve opening degree setting value is used when the ambient temperature is higher than a second switching temperature and the first valve opening degree setting value is used when the ambient temperature is lower than a first switching temperature which is lower than the second switching temperature, and
the control device sets a speed at which the first valve opening degree setting value is switched to the second valve opening degree setting value to be faster than a speed at which the second valve opening degree setting value is switched to the first valve opening degree setting value.

2. The gas turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device switches the second valve opening degree setting value to the first valve opening degree setting value when a load reaches a predetermined load after the gas turbine is activated.

3. The gas turbine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the control device switches the second valve opening degree setting value to the first valve opening degree setting value after a predetermined time elapses from a time point at which the load reaches the predetermined load.

4. The gas turbine according to claim 3 ,
wherein the predetermined load is at least 90% or more of a full load.

5. The gas turbine according to claim 3 ,
wherein at least one of the first valve opening degree setting value and the second valve opening degree setting value increases in accordance with an increase in an intake-air temperature of the gas turbine.

6. The gas turbine according to claim 2 ,
wherein the predetermined load is at least 90% or more of a full load.

7. The gas turbine according to claim 6 ,
wherein at least one of the first valve opening degree setting value and the second valve opening degree setting value increases in accordance with an increase in an intake air-temperature of the gas turbine.

8. The gas turbine according to claim 2 ,
wherein at least one of the first valve opening degree setting value and the second valve opening degree setting value increases in accordance with an increase in an intake-air temperature of the gas turbine.

9. The gas turbine according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the first valve opening degree setting value and the second valve opening degree setting value increases in accordance with an increase in an intake-air temperature of the gas turbine.

10. A control device of a gas turbine, the gas turbine comprising:
a compressor which compresses air;
a combustor which burns a mixture of a fuel and compressed air compressed by the compressor;
a turbine which obtains rotational power by a combustion gas generated by the combustor;
a cooling air supply passage which supplies the compressed air bled from the compressor to a disk cavity of the turbine;
an opening/closing valve which is provided in the cooling air supply passage; and
a temperature measurement unit which measures an ambient temperature of the disk cavity,
wherein the control device is configured to
adjust an opening degree of the opening/closing valve based on the ambient temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit,
set a first valve opening degree setting value and a second valve opening degree setting value larger than the first valve opening degree setting value of the opening/closing valve,
set a first switching temperature and a second switching temperature higher than the first switching temperature,
use the second valve opening degree setting value when the ambient temperature is higher than the second switching temperature and use the first valve opening degree setting value when the ambient temperature is lower than the first switching temperature, and
set a speed at which the first valve opening degree setting value is switched to the second valve opening degree setting value to be faster than a speed at which the second valve opening degree setting value is switched to the first valve opening degree setting value.

11. A gas turbine cooling method of cooling a gas turbine including a compressor which compresses air, a combustor which burns a mixture of a fuel and the air compressed by the compressor, a turbine which obtains rotational power by a combustion gas generated by the combustor, a cooling air supply passage which supplies the compressed air bled from the compressor to a disk cavity of the turbine, an opening/closing valve which is provided in the cooling air supply passage, and a control device, the gas turbine cooling method being used by the control device to adjust an opening degree of the opening/closing valve in response to an ambient temperature of the disk cavity, and comprising the steps of:
measuring the ambient temperature of the disk cavity;
setting a first switching temperature and a second switching temperature higher than the first switching temperature, and
using a second valve opening degree setting value when the ambient temperature is higher than the second switching temperature and using a first valve opening degree setting value which is smaller than the second valve opening degree setting value when the ambient temperature is lower than the first switching temperature, and
setting a speed at which the first valve opening degree setting value is switched to the second valve opening degree setting value to be faster than a speed at which the second valve opening degree setting value is switched to the first valve opening degree setting value.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Morimoto Kazuki
• Tanaka Katsunori

Classifications

• F02C9/18

  by bleeding, bypassing or acting on variable working fluid interconnections between turbines or compressors or their stages {(F02C3/113 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• F05D2270/303

  Temperature · CPC title

• F05D2270/80

  Devices generating input signals, e.g. transducers, sensors, cameras or strain gauges · CPC title

• F02C6/08 Primary

  the gas being bled from the gas-turbine compressor · CPC title

• F05D2220/32

  in gas turbines · CPC title