General Electric Company

Mallareddy Soudary

Alston Ilford Scipio

Robert Joseph Iasillo

Juergen Gerhard Hoffmann

Maruthi Manohar Jupudi

Praveen Babulal Jain

Tauseef Ahmed Shaikh

KrishnaKumar Pg

Ajith Kizhuthrukovil Radhakrishnan

A method for inhibiting particulate ingress in a combustion system includes acquiring particulate ingress data, determining a probable particulate ingress location on an air inlet of the combustion system in dependence upon the particulate ingress data, and deploying a filter screen at the determined probable particulate ingress location to inhibit particulate ingress at the determined probable particulate ingress location.

System and method for inhibiting particulate and foreign object ingress in combustion systems

A power generation plant including a plurality of combustor cans, one or more sensors configured to measure acoustic vibrations from the plurality of combustor cans, and a controller that includes a processor. The processor is programmed to identify a dominant tone of the measured acoustic vibrations, the dominant tone being a frequency where a highest amount of energy lies, determine, for each of the plurality of combustor cans, a frequency of the dominant tone at predefined time intervals, and determine a degradation status of at least one of the plurality of combustor cans based on the frequency of the dominant tone at each of the predefine time intervals for the at least one of the plurality of combustor cans.

System and method for detecting combustion hardware damage

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Andhra Pradesh, India

Mallareddy Soudary