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Digital computer control system and method for monitoring and controlling operation of industrial gas turbine apparatus employing expanded parametric control algorithm

  • US 3,866,109 A
  • Filed: 01/26/1973
  • Issued: 02/11/1975
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A gas turbine electric power plant comprising a gas turbine having compressor and combustion and turbine elements, a generator having a field winding and being coupled to said gas turbine for drive power, a fuel system for supplying fuel for said gas turbine combustion elements, means for exciting said generator field winding, a control system including a digital computer and an input/output system therefor, a plurality of sensors disposed to monitor selected turbine parameters and to provide control system inputs representative thereof, means for operating said fuel system to energize said turbine and for controlling said exciting means, means continuously responsive to a control system output for modulating air flow into said compressor, and means for operating said computer to make functionally independent control action determinations for implementation by said fuel system operating means, said exciting means and said air flow modulating means, said modulating means and said fuel system control actions being determined as some function of time varying combinations of control parameters whose values are determined in response to said sensor inputs.

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