METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR MEASURING A GAS TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN A COMBUSTION CHAMBER

• US 20200132552A1
• Filed: 03/13/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2017
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: BRUMMEL, HANS-GERD, HEESCHE, KAI, STERZING, VOLKMAR
• Application Number:
  US16/493,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20200132552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/1433 using a model or simulation of the system
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/022 using an optical sensor, e.g. in-cylinder light probe
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/026 using an estimation
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1405 Neural network control
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1447 with determination means using an estimation
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2270/8041 Cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 2005/0077 Imaging
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/42 Absorption spectrometry; Double beam spectrometry; Flicker spectrometry; Reflection spectrometry beam switching arrangements G01J3/08
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0014 for sensing the radiation from gases, flames
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0088 in turbines
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/047 Mobile mounting; Scanning arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0802 Optical filters
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0806 Focusing or collimating elements, e.g. lenses or concave mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0808 Convex mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0896 using a light source, e.g. for illuminating a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/58 using absorption; using extinction effect
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/60 using determination of colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/602 using selective, monochromatic or bandpass filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/80 Calibration using comparison with reference sources G01J5/52
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/14 Testing gas-turbine engines or jet-propulsion engines

Abstract

Provided is an optical sensor directed into a combustion chamber is used to selectively sense a predefined spectral range of an optical spectrum for different light paths running through the combustion chamber to measure a gas temperature distribution in the combustion chamber. A spectral intensity is determined for each spectral range and associated with an item of light path information which identifies the light path in question. The spectral intensities determined and and the associated items of light path information are fed as input data to a machine learning routine which is trained to reproduce spatially resolved training temperature distributions. Output data from the machine learning routine are then output as the gas temperature distribution.

Claims

1. A method for measuring a gas temperature distribution in a combustion chamber, wherein

a) in each case a specified spectral range of an optical spectrum is selectively captured for different light paths passing through the combustion chamber using an optical sensor that is directed into the combustion chamber.

b) a respective spectral intensity is ascertained fora respective spectral range and assigned to a light path indication identifying the respective light path.

c) the spectral intensities ascertained and the assigned light path indications are supplied as input data to a machine learning routine that is trained for a reproduction of spatially resolved training temperature distributions, and

d) output data of the machine learning routine are output as gas temperature distribution.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the machine learning routine utilizes at least one of a data-driven trainable regression model, an artificial neural network, a recurrent neural network, a convolutional neural network. an autoencoder, a deep learning architecture, a support-vector machine, a k-nearest neighbors classifier, a physical model and-or a decision tree.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein specific spectral lines of one or more substances, the concentration of which in the combustion chamber is temperature-dependent, are selected as the spectral range

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical spectrum for the different light paths is captured in parallel and direclion-sensitively using a camera as the optical sensor.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spectral range is selected using a spectral filter.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or more laser beams are transmitted through the combustion chamber along different light paths and, after passage through the respective light path, are captured by the optical sensor.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the different light paths are selected via at least one of direction and of position changes of the optical sensor, of a laser directed into the combustion chamber and/or of a mirror and or prism arranged along a respective light path.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the machine learning routine is trained in a calibration phase using a training combustion chamber on the basis of specified temperature distribution data.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a thermody namic model of the combustion chamber is used to ascertain a correlation between further operating data of the combustion chamber and a temperature distribution in the combustion chamber and used for training the machine learning routine.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein further operating data of the combustion chamber are supplied as input data, together with the spectral intensities and the light path indications, to the machine learning routine.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein a soft sensor is trained, on the basis of the further operating data and of the output gas temperature distribution, for a reproduction of the gas temperature distribution on the basis of the further operating data.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a training structure of the trained machine learning routine is specifically extracted and transferred to a soft sensor.

13. An arrangement for measuring a gas temperature distribution in a combustion chamber, configured for performing a method as claimed in claim 1.

14. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having computer readable program code stored therein, said program code executable hv a processor of a computer svstem to implement a method, configured for performing a method as claimed in claim 1.

15. A computer-readable storage medium having a computer program product as claimed in claim 14.