Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for measuring eccentricity of gas turbine casing relative to rotor
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Application No.: US15933614Application Date: 2018-03-23
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Publication No.: US10663280B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Travis Edwin Lipstein , Sandra Beverly Kolvick
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- Main IPC: G01B7/312
- IPC: G01B7/312 ; F01D21/00 ; G01M15/14 ; G01B5/24 ; G01B17/00 ; G01B21/24 ; G01B11/26 ; G01B7/28 ; G01B15/00 ; G01B11/24

Abstract:
A system and method for determining eccentricity of a casing and a rotor of a gas turbine includes a plurality of stationary distance detectors coupled to the casing at known circumferential positions and a rotating distance detector coupled to the rotor or a blade in or near an axial plane defined by the stationary distance detectors. The stationary distance detectors transmit wireless signals to one another to determine a first series of distance measurements between each pair of stationary distance detectors. The rotating distance detector transmits wireless signals to each of the stationary distance detectors, as the rotor is spun, to generate a second series of distance measurements. The measurements are transmitted, over a wireless local area network, to a remote computing device that processes the distance measurements into an eccentricity plot. An optional base station may be used to generate the wireless network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190293405A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ECCENTRICITY OF GAS TURBINE CASING RELATIVE TO ROTOR Public/Granted day:2019-09-26
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