Gas turbine and method for operating the gas turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9915166-B2
Application number	US-201414777319-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2014
Priority date	Mar 20, 2013
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

A gas turbine includes an intake tract and a compressor having a compressor flow channel. The compressor further includes an inlet guide vane row positioned in the compressor flow channel having inlet guide vanes that can be adjusted. The gas turbine has an icing sensor unit having at least one sensor arranged between a first compressor blade row and a first compressor guide vane row. The first compressor blade row is thereby arranged in the compressor flow channel directly downstream of the inlet guide vane row, and the first compressor guide vane row is arranged directly downstream of the first compressor blade row. A method detects an imminent icing of the compressor, and the compressor is safeguarded therefrom such that at least inlet guide vanes of the inlet guide vane row are adjusted such that the acceleration of an intake air mass flow is reduced.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gas turbine comprising an intake section and a compressor having a compressor flow duct, wherein the compressor has an inlet guide blade row with adjustable inlet guide blades, which is positioned in the compressor flow duct, the gas turbine comprising:
an icing sensor unit arranged between a first compressor rotor blade row and a first compressor guide blade row, wherein the first compressor rotor blade row is arranged immediately downstream of the inlet guide blade row and the first compressor guide blade row is arranged immediately downstream of the first compressor rotor blade row in the compressor flow duct,
wherein the icing sensor unit has at least one air humidity sensor, and
in addition, the icing sensor unit having at least one pressure sensor and one temperature sensor, which are both arranged between the first compressor rotor blade row and the first compressor guide blade row.

2. The gas turbine as claimed in 1 , wherein the air humidity sensor is arranged in the intake section.

3. The gas turbine as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the icing sensor unit has a plurality of pressure sensors arranged in a manner distributed along a circumference between the first compressor rotor blade row and the first compressor guide blade row in the compressor flow duct.

4. The gas turbine as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the icing sensor unit has a plurality of temperature sensors arranged in a manner distributed along a circumference between the first compressor rotor blade row and the first compressor guide blade row in the compressor flow duct.

5. A method for operating a gas turbine, which accelerates an intake air mass flow within a compressor flow duct of a compressor, comprising:
in a first step, an air humidity determination takes place in a compressor inlet region and/or in the compressor flow duct, and a pressure determination takes place in the compressor flow duct between a first compressor rotor blade row and a first compressor guide blade row, and a temperature determination takes place in the compressor flow duct, between the first compressor rotor blade row and the first compressor guide blade row,
in a second step, an icing risk determination is performed, and
in a third step, a blade adjustment takes place such that, when there is a risk of icing, at least inlet guide blades of an inlet guide blade row are set such that the acceleration of the intake air mass flow is reduced and the icing of the compressor is thereby avoided.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 ,
wherein the air humidity determination takes place in a compressor inlet region.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5 ,
wherein, in the air humidity determination and/or the pressure determination and/or the temperature determination, determination takes place from measured values of a plurality of sensors.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Engler Thorsten
• Gorynski Markus
• Gutermuth Manuel
• Kreutzer Philipp
• Link Marco
• Savilius Nicolas
• Suselbeck Kai
• Tertilt Marc

Classifications

• F05D2270/311

  Air humidity · CPC title

• F01D17/08

  responsive to condition of working-fluid, e.g. pressure · CPC title

• F01D9/041

  using blades (F01D5/148 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F05D2240/12

  Fluid guiding means, e.g. vanes · CPC title

• F01D17/085

  to temperature · CPC title