General Electric Company

Jeffrey Wayne Litzler

Sridhar Adibhatla

Steven Edward Nolte

A pipe fault detection system is provided for a gas turbine engine having a compressor and a turbine. The pipe fault detection system includes a cooling manifold configured to direct cooling air from the compressor to the turbine. The cooling manifold includes at least two cooling pipes, a sensor configured to detect an operating condition indicative of a pipe break, and a controller configured to control the amount of cooling air through the cooling manifold in response to the operating condition detected by the sensor.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Jeffrey Wayne Litzler