Fuel supply control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11352959-B2
Application number	US-202016872508-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2020
Priority date	Nov 16, 2017
Publication date	Jun 7, 2022
Grant date	Jun 7, 2022

Abstract

A fuel supply control device controls a fuel supply pump based on a front-rear differential pressure across a metering valve for a fuel supply amount, which is detected by a differential pressure gauge, using parallel flow passages of an orifice and a pressurizing valve as the metering valve, in which the fuel supply control device includes a first control amount generation unit generating a first control amount based on the front-rear differential pressure, a second control amount generation unit generating a second control amount based on the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump, a control amount selection unit, a subtractor, and a control calculation unit, in which the control amount selection unit selects the first control amount in a case where the rotation speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold and select the second control amount in a case where the rotation speed exceeds the threshold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel supply control device for a gas turbine that is configured to control a fuel supply pump on the basis of a front-rear differential pressure across a metering valve for a fuel supply amount, which is detected by a differential pressure gauge, using parallel flow passages of an orifice and a pressurizing valve as the metering valve, the fuel supply control device comprising:
a first control amount generation unit that is configured to generate a first control amount on the basis of the front-rear differential pressure;
a second control amount generation unit that is configured to generate a second control amount on the basis of a rotation speed of the fuel supply pump;
a control amount selection unit that is configured to alternatively select the first control amount or the second control amount on the basis of the rotation speed and to output the selected control amount;
a subtractor that is configured to calculate a deviation of the output of the control amount selection unit from a control target value and to output the deviation; and
a control calculation unit that is configured to calculate an operation amount of the fuel supply pump on the basis of the output of the subtractor,
wherein the control amount selection unit is configured to select the first control amount in a case where the rotation speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold and to select the second control amount instead of the first control amount in a case where the rotation speed exceeds the threshold.

2. The fuel supply control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first control amount generation unit is configured to generate the first control amount on the basis of a differential pressure-fuel supply amount conversion table showing a relationship between the front-rear differential pressure and a flow rate of fuel.

3. The fuel supply control device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount on the basis of a rotation speed-fuel supply amount conversion table showing a relationship between the rotation speed and a flow rate of fuel.

4. The fuel supply control device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by correcting an output of the rotation speed-fuel supply amount conversion table on the basis of an estimation value of leakage amount of fuel acquired in advance about the fuel supply pump.

5. The fuel supply control device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by taking a rotation speed of a motor, which drives the fuel supply pump, as the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump.

6. The fuel supply control device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by taking a rotation speed of a motor, which drives the fuel supply pump, as the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump.

7. The fuel supply control device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by taking a rotation speed of a motor, which drives the fuel supply pump, as the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump.

8. The fuel supply control device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the control calculation unit is configured to calculate the operation amount of the fuel supply pump by performing PID calculation processing on the output of the subtractor.

9. The fuel supply control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount on the basis of a rotation speed-fuel supply amount conversion table showing a relationship between the rotation speed and a flow rate of fuel.

10. The fuel supply control device according to claim 9 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by correcting an output of the rotation speed-fuel supply amount conversion table on the basis of an estimation value of leakage amount of fuel acquired in advance about the fuel supply pump.

11. The fuel supply control device according to claim 10 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by taking a rotation speed of a motor, which drives the fuel supply pump, as the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump.

12. The fuel supply control device according to claim 9 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by taking a rotation speed of a motor, which drives the fuel supply pump, as the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump.

13. The fuel supply control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second control amount generation unit is configured to generate the second control amount by taking a rotation speed of a motor, which drives the fuel supply pump, as the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump.

14. The fuel supply control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control calculation unit is configured to calculate the operation amount of the fuel supply pump by performing PID calculation processing on the output of the subtractor.

15. A fuel supply control device for a gas turbine that is configured to control a fuel supply pump on the basis of a front-rear differential pressure across a metering valve for a fuel supply amount, which is detected by a differential pressure gauge, using parallel flow passages of an orifice and a pressurizing valve as the metering valve, the fuel supply control device comprising:
a first control amount generation unit that is configured to generate a first control amount on the basis of the front-rear differential pressure;
a second control amount generation unit that is configured to generate a second control amount on the basis of a rotation speed of the fuel supply pump;
a control amount selection unit that is configured to alternatively select the first control amount or the second control amount on the basis of a rotation speed of the gas turbine and to output the selected control amount;
a subtractor that is configured to calculate a deviation of the output of the control amount selection unit from a control target value and to output the deviation; and
a control calculation unit that is configured to calculate an operation amount of the fuel supply pump on the basis of the output of the subtractor,
wherein the control amount selection unit is configured to select the first control amount in a case where the rotation speed of the gas turbine is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold and to select the second control amount instead of the first control amount in a case where the rotation speed exceeds the threshold.

16. A fuel supply control device for a gas turbine that is configured to control a fuel supply pump on the basis of a front-rear differential pressure across a metering valve for a fuel supply amount, which is detected by a differential pressure gauge, using parallel flow passages of an orifice and a pressurizing valve as the metering valve, the fuel supply control device comprising:
a first control amount generation unit that is configured to generate a first control amount on the basis of the front-rear differential pressure;
a second control amount generation unit that is configured to generate a second control amount on the basis of a rotation speed of the fuel supply pump;
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Assignees

• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Yamamoto Yasuhiko
• Seki Naoki

Classifications

• F02C9/263 Primary

  by means of fuel metering valves · CPC title

• F05D2260/80

  Diagnostics · CPC title

• F02C7/232 Primary

  Fuel valves {(control of fuel supply by means of fuel metering valves F02C9/263)}; Draining valves or systems (valves in general F16K) · CPC title

• F05D2270/3015

  differential pressure · CPC title

• F05D2270/706

  proportional-integral-differential · CPC title