Method of regulating the rotational speed of a gas turbine during load disconnection

• US 5,680,753 A
• Filed: 05/11/1995
• Issued: 10/28/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd. (Alstom SA)
• Original Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Muller, Gerhard, Hollinger, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): KOCZO JR, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US08/439,245
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 60/39.03, 60/39.091, 60/734, 60/737, 60/738, 60/739, 60/746, 60/747
• US Class Current: 60/779
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 9/46 Emergency fuel control
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2270/091 in particular sudden load loss
• CPC Class Codes: F23R 3/343 Pilot flames, i.e. fuel nozzles or injectors using only a very small proportion of the total fuel to insure continuous combustion ignition in gas-turbine plants F02C7/264; pilot flame igniters F23Q9/00

Abstract

In a method of regulating the rotational speed of a gas turbine during load disconnection, the fuel line (8) of which to the combustion chamber (10) can be controlled via regulating valves (5) and via burner control valves (6), and the combustion chamber of which is operated with premixing burners (11), some of the premixing burners are used as idling premixing burners (11a) and the rest are operated only as main burners. During load disconnection, the main burners are shut off by means of the burner control valve (6), and the idling premixing burners are supplied with fuel via a regulated bypass line (3).

Claims

1. A method for regulating the rotational speed of a gas turbine during load disconnection, wherein the gas turbine includes a combustion chamber having a plurality of premixing burners, a first group of premixing burners operated as main burners and a second group of premixing burners operated as idling burners, a main fuel line to the combustion chamber having a regulating valve to control a flow of fuel to said plurality of premixing burners, the main line branching into a first branch for the first group and a second branch for the second group, the first branch having a shut-off valve, and wherein a bypass line having regulating means is connected to the main line to bypass the regulating valve, the method comprising the steps, upon load disconnection, of:

closing the shut-off valve in the first branch;

closing the regulating valve; and

supplying fuel to the idling premixing burners through the bypass line to maintain operation of the idling premixing burners.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bypass line includes, in a flow direction, a normally open first bypass valve and a normally closed second bypass valve, and wherein the step of supplying fuel through the bypass line includes:

maintaining the first bypass valve open; and

opening the second bypass valve to allow fuel to flow through the bypass line.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising the step of regulating the flow of fuel through the bypass line.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of regulating the flow of fuel through the bypass line while fuel is supplied through the bypass line.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising the step of:

adjusting a fuel flow to the idling burners to stabilize a rotational speed of the turbine;

after the rotational speed is stabilized, actuating the first bypass valve to a closed position;

responsive to closing movement the first bypass valve, opening the regulating valve in the main line, wherein the main line is opened and the regulating valve resumes control of the fuel flow to the burners; and

then

closing the second valve in the bypass line.