Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for detecting leaks in a fuel circuit of a gas turbine fuel supply system
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Application No.: US14967654Application Date: 2015-12-14
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Publication No.: US09933327B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Bouria Faqihi , Abdul Khaliq , James Frederik den Outer , Thomas Earnest Moldenhauer , Michael Lynch , Richard Preston Epley , Steven Castellaw , Sheng Jia Zheng
- 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: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: G01M3/24
- IPC: G01M3/24 ; G01M3/02 ; F01D25/00 ; F01D19/00 ; F02C9/46 ; G01M3/26 ; F02C7/22 ; F02C9/28 ; F01D21/14 ; F02C7/00 ; F02C9/26 ; G01M3/00 ; G01N29/14 ; F02K9/54

Abstract:
A method for detecting leakage at a fluid connection for a gas turbine fuel supply system is disclosed herein. The method includes closing a flow control valve at an upstream end of the fuel supply system and pressurizing the fuel supply system with a compressed medium via a compressed medium supply to a target pressure. The target pressure is less than a pressure threshold of a check valve that is disposed downstream from the compressed medium supply and upstream from a corresponding combustor of the gas turbine. The method further includes pointing a receiver portion of an ultrasonic detection device proximate to at least one tube fitting of the fuel supply system located between the flow control valve and a combustor which is fluidly coupled to the fuel supply system. Detection of an increase in sound level and/or the sound of popping at the tube fitting is indicative of a leak at the tube fitting.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170052087A1 Method for Detecting Leaks In A Fuel Circuit of a Gas Turbine Fuel Supply System Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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