Gas turbine combustion profile monitoring

KW Miller, L Yu, R Iasillo - US Patent 9,791,351, 2017 - Google Patents
Systems and methods for gas turbine combustion profile monitoring are disclosed. In one
embodiment, a method for detecting an anomaly in a combustion section of a gas turbine is …

Controlling apparatus and starting method

M Tobo, BD Cao, A Ishikawa, M Dejima… - US Patent App. 14 …, 2015 - Google Patents
A controlling apparatus to control a combined cycle power-generating plant, the combined
cycle power-generating plant including: a gas turbine; an heat recovery steam generator; …

Methods and apparatus to optimize steam turbine ramp rates

X Cheng, FC Huff, MJ Novacek, RR Rao - US Patent 10,267,182, 2019 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatus to optimize turbine ramp rates are disclosed herein. An example
method includes predicting a setpoint for a turbine rotor over a prediction horizon. The …

Methods and apparatus to optimize steam header blending and gas turbine loading in combined cycle power plants

RR Rao, X Cheng, FC Huff, JN Adams - US Patent 10,781,723, 2020 - Google Patents
US10781723B2 - Methods and apparatus to optimize steam header blending and gas
turbine loading in combined cycle power plants - Google Patents US10781723B2 …

Method for low load operation of a power plant with a once-through boiler

V Schüle, S Hellweg, R Leithner… - US Patent 10,196,939, 2019 - Google Patents
The once-through boiler includes a water supply and at least an economizer, an evaporator
superheater. No valves are provided between the economizer, the evaporator and the …

System and method for predicting and enhancing power plant startup time

RK Verma, VS Muralidharan, PK Yadav… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more
processor-executable instructions wherein the one or more instructions when executed by a …

Plant control apparatus and plant starting-up method

M Tobo, K Nakamura, S Yoshida - US Patent App. 14/665,131, 2015 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a plant control apparatus controls a com bined cycle power generation
plant. The plant includes a gas turbine, an exhaust heat recovery boiler including an evapo …

Modeling and control of gas cycle power plant operation with variant control profile

N Tralshawala, DS Ewens, D Wang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for oper ating a combined cycle power
plant (CCPP). The method may include creating a variant control profile for the CCPP for a …

Methods and apparatus to optimize steam header blending and gas turbine loading in combined cycle power plants

RR Rao, X Cheng, FC Huff, JN Adams - US Patent 11,391,185, 2022 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatus to optimize ramp rates in combined cycle power plants are
disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein includes predicting a first setpoint for …

Combined cycle power plant system and related control systems and program products

AK Tiwari, WF Seely - US Patent 9,863,286, 2018 - Google Patents
Various embodiments include a system having: at least one computing device configured to
monitor a combined-cycle (CC) power plant during a transient event by performing actions …