Method for controlling a turbomachine valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10995628-B2
Application number	US-201716463002-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2017
Priority date	Nov 22, 2016
Publication date	May 4, 2021
Grant date	May 4, 2021

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for controlling a control valve ( 20 ) of a turbomachine operating at an engine speed at a cruise value (Vc) and oscillating around the cruise value (Vc) of same, the method being implemented by a calculation unit ( 40 ), and being characterised in that it comprises a step of determining a position control for the control valve ( 20 ), filtered of the oscillations of the engine speed around the cruise value (Vc).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method implemented by a calculation unit, the method comprising:
monitoring, by a monitoring valve that directs air flow from a flow path toward a casing disposed opposite blades in a turbine of a turbomachine, an air flow rate from the flow path; and
receiving a value of an engine speed of the turbomachine at a cruise value, the value of the engine speed oscillating about the cruise value and determining, for the monitoring valve, a position command for the monitoring valve based on the engine speed; and
controlling the monitoring valve based on the determined position command,
wherein the position command is determined by:
receiving data quantifying the engine speed of the turbomachine,
determining a flow rate command from the data quantifying the engine speed,
determining the position command from the flow rate command, and
filtering, from the oscillations of the engine speed about the cruise value, the position command.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the filtering is carried out using a low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency is greater than a frequency associated with the thermal response time of the casing.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the low-pass filter is a first-order filter.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said monitoring valve is configured to supply air to an inside of the casing in order to modify an expansion of the casing.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the cutoff frequency is between 0.05 Hz and 0.15 Hz.

6. The method according to claim 2 , comprising deactivating the filtering by:
determining a gradient of the position command,
comparing the gradient with a deactivation threshold, and
deactivating the filter if the gradient is greater than the deactivation threshold.

7. The method according to claim 2 , comprising activating the filtering by:
determining a gradient of the position command,
comparing the gradient with an activation threshold,
activating the filter if the gradient is smaller than the activation threshold during at least one confirmation period.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the filtering is activated if the gradient is smaller than the activation threshold and if each of the engine speed, an altitude, and a Mach are at respective corresponding values.

9. The method according to claim 2 , wherein filtering the position command comprises filtering the data quantifying the engine speed.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the filtering is carried out using a low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency is less than a frequency of the engine speed oscillations about the cruise value.

11. A system comprising:
a monitoring valve;
a filtration block; and
a calculation unit that is configured to execute the following operations:
monitoring, by the monitoring valve that directs air flow from a flow path toward a casing disposed opposite blades in a turbine of a turbomachine, an air flow rate from the flow path; and
receiving a value of an engine speed of the turbomachine at a cruise value, the value of the engine speed oscillating about the cruise value and determining, for the monitoring valve, a position command for the monitoring valve based on the engine speed; and
controlling the monitoring valve based on the determined position command,
wherein the position command is determined by:
receiving data quantifying the engine speed of the turbomachine,
determining a flow rate command from the data quantifying the engine speed,
determining the position command from the flow rate command, and
filtering, by the filtering block from the oscillations of the engine speed about the cruise value, the position command.

12. A turbomachine comprising the system according to claim 11 .

Assignees

• Safran Aircraft Engines

Inventors

• Mache Florian
• Rodhain Arnaud

Classifications

• F01D9/065

  Fluid supply or removal conduits traversing the working fluid flow, e.g. for lubrication-, cooling-, or sealing fluids (see also F01D25/16, F01D25/24 and F01D25/26) · CPC title

• F05D2270/64

  Hydraulic actuators · CPC title

• F01D11/24 Primary

  by selectively cooling-heating stator or rotor components · CPC title

• F05D2270/44

  active, predictive, or anticipative · CPC title

• F05D2270/20

  to optimize the performance of a machine · CPC title