Fuel supply apparatus, fuel-flow-rate-control unit, and gas-turbine power generating plant

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9441545-B2
Application number	US-201213728661-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2012
Priority date	Jan 13, 2012
Publication date	Sep 13, 2016
Grant date	Sep 13, 2016

Abstract

A fuel supply apparatus is provided with a plurality of flow-rate regulating valves that regulate the flow rate of fuel flowing in a fuel supply line; a calculating section that calculates a required flow-rate coefficient on the basis of at least a fuel pressure in the fuel flow upstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, a pressure determined in advance as a fuel pressure downstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, and the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to one fuel nozzle among different kinds of fuel nozzles, the required flow-rate coefficient being the coefficient of the flow-rate regulating valve corresponding to the one fuel nozzle; and a valve control section that controls the degree-of-opening of the flow-rate regulating valve corresponding to the one fuel nozzle on the basis of the required flow-rate coefficient.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fuel supply apparatus configured to control the flow rates of fuel to be supplied to fuel nozzles provided in a combustor of a gas turbine, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of flow-rate regulating valves which are provided in fuel supply lines that supply fuel to the fuel nozzles and which regulate the flow rates of fuel flowing through the fuel supply lines;
a calculating section that calculates required flow-rate coefficients of the flow-rate regulating valves corresponding to the fuel nozzles on the basis of at least an upstream-side fuel pressure in the fuel flow upstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, a downstream-side fuel pressure obtained using a predetermined relational expression on a basis of at least an operating parameter of a gas-turbine power generating plant including an atmosphere air temperature of the gas turbine, and the flow rates of fuel to be supplied to the fuel nozzles; and
a valve control section that controls the degrees-of-opening of the flow-rate regulating valves on the basis of the required flow-rate coefficients.

2. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a pressure measuring unit that measures a fuel pressure upstream of the flow-rate regulating valves,
wherein the pressure measured by the pressure measuring unit is used as the upstream-side fuel pressure for use in calculating the required flow-rate coefficients.

3. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the fuel nozzles are different kinds of fuel nozzles.

4. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a pressure regulating section which is provided in a common line that supplies fuel to all of the fuel supply lines and which regulates the fuel pressure upstream of the flow-rate regulating valves to a predetermined value,
wherein a predetermined pressure is used as a set value for use in calculating the required flow-rate coefficient.

5. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the one fuel nozzle is calculated from a total flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the combustor, the total flow rate being determined on a basis of a load of the gas turbine, and a fuel distribution ratio among the different kinds of fuel nozzles; and
the upstream-side fuel pressure is a pressure determined on a basis of the total flow rate of fuel.

6. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the one fuel nozzle is calculated from a total flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the combustor, the total flow rate being determined on a basis of a load of the gas turbine, and a fuel distribution ratio among the different kinds of fuel nozzles; and
the downstream-side fuel pressure is determined on the basis of the total flow rate of fuel.

7. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the downstream-side fuel pressure is a pressure calculated on the basis of a pressure in a casing in which the fuel nozzles are disposed; and
the pressure in the casing in which the fuel nozzles are disposed is a pressure obtained using a predetermined relational expression on a basis of an operating parameter of a gas-turbine power generating plant.

8. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 7 , further comprising a correcting section that corrects the required flow-rate coefficients calculated by the calculating section on a basis of at least an actual measured value of the pressure in the casing.

9. A gas-turbine power generating plant comprising:
a compressor that compresses air;
a combustor that generates high-temperature combustion gas by burning a gas mixture of the compressed air and fuel;
a turbine that extracts a rotary driving force from the combustion gas; and
the fuel supply apparatus according to claim 1 that supplies the fuel to the combustor.

10. A fuel-flow-rate control unit configured to control flow rates of fuel to be supplied to fuel nozzles provided in a combustor of a gas turbine, the control unit comprising:
a calculating section that calculates required flow-rate coefficients on the basis of at least an upstream-side fuel pressure in the fuel flow upstream of flow-rate regulating valves that regulate the flow rates of fuel to be supplied to the fuel nozzles, a downstream-side fuel pressure obtained using a predetermined relational expression on a basis of at least an operating parameter of a gas-turbine power generating plant including an atmosphere air temperature of the gas turbine, and the flow rates of fuel to be supplied to the fuel nozzles, the required flow-rate coefficients being coefficients of the flow-rate regulating valves corresponding to the fuel nozzles; and
a valve control section that controls the degrees-of-opening of the flow-rate regulating valves on the basis of the required flow-rate coefficients.

11. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 10 , wherein a measured pressure is used as the upstream-side fuel pressure for use in calculating the required flow-rate coefficients.

12. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 10 , wherein
the fuel nozzles are different kinds of fuel nozzles.

13. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 12 , wherein a predetermined pressure is used as a set value for use in calculating the required flow-rate coefficient.

14. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 13 , wherein
the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the one fuel nozzle is calculated from a total flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the combustor, the total flow rate being determined on a basis of a load of the gas turbine, and a fuel distribution ratio among the different kinds of fuel nozzles; and
the upstream-side fuel pressure is a pressure determined on a basis of the total flow rate of fuel.

15. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 12 , wherein
the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the one fuel nozzle is calculated from a total flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the combustor, the total flow rate being determined on a basis of a load of the gas turbine, and the fuel distribution ratio among the different kinds of fuel nozzles; and
the downstream-side fuel pressure is a pressure determined on the basis of the total flow rate of fuel.

16. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 12 , wherein
the downstream-side fuel pressure is calculated on the basis of a pressure in a casing in which the fuel nozzles are disposed; and
the pressure in the casing in which the fuel nozzles are disposed is a pressure obtained using a predetermined relational expression on a basis of an operating parameter of a gas-turbine power generating plant.

17. The fuel-flow-rate control unit according to claim 16 , further comprising a correcting section that corrects the required flow-rate coefficients calculated by the calculating section on a basis of at least an actual measured value of the pressure in the casing.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd
• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Harada Shoichi

Classifications

• 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

• F02C7/22

  Fuel supply systems · CPC title

• F02C9/40

  specially adapted to the use of a special fuel or a plurality of fuels · CPC title

• F05D2270/304

  Spool rotational speed · CPC title

• F02C9/28 Primary

  Regulating systems responsive to plant or ambient parameters, e.g. temperature, pressure, rotor speed (F02C9/30 - F02C9/38, F02C9/44 take precedence) · CPC title