Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Martin Stapper

Werner Krebs

Oliver Schneider

Berthold Köstlin

Matthias Hase

Birgit Grüger

Marco Larson

Martin Bennauer

Andreas Pahl

Thorsten Engler

Martin Ophey

Philipp Kreutzer

David Veltmann

Martin Lenze

Thomas Kerstiens

Hans-Georg Gamm

Rosa-Eos Mühlhölzer

Joachim Skoczowski

Elke Henschel

Marian-Peter Pieczyk

Susanne Haas

Marc Reinberg

Marc Schäfer

Florian Purps

Jan-Dirk Beiler

Joachim Skoczowsky

David Barkowski

Marc SCHÄFER

Peter Dietrich

A method for operating a gas turbine plant having a gas turbine and an electric generator driven by the gas turbine. The method includes detecting an instantaneous power of the gas turbine plant; comparing the detected instantaneous power with a power limit value; and limiting the instantaneous power when the result of the comparison is that the detected instantaneous power is equal to or greater than the power limit value. A step of detecting at least one operating parameter of the gas turbine plant and a step of determining the power limit value as a function of the at least one detected operating parameter are then implemented, wherein the at least one operating parameter of the gas turbine plant includes an ambient pressure and the power limit value is increased when the ambient pressure increases.

Variable power limit control for gas turbines

A method for testing an overspeed protection apparatus of a single-shaft system that includes: a) operating the system at nominal speed and under electrical load, wherein the load is selected to be low enough that, after dropping the load, the speed of the system rises such that the speed remains below steam turbine threshold speed lower than gas turbine threshold speed, such that first overspeed protection is triggered when the speed of the steam turbine reaches the steam turbine threshold speed, and second overspeed protection is triggered when the speed of the gas turbine reaches the gas turbine threshold speed; b) dropping the load; c) increasing the mass flow of the steam introduced into the steam turbine and/or of the fuel introduced into the gas turbine such that the speed of the steam turbine reaches the steam turbine threshold speed; d) testing whether the first overspeed protection is triggered.

Method for testing an overspeed protection apparatus of a single-shaft system

A machine component including a base body produced from a base material is provided. The base body is equipped in a partial region of the surface thereof with a plating made of an application material having a greater hardness and/or viscosity as compared to the base material. The plating is foamed by a number of plating elements that are applied to the base body in the longitudinal direction thereof in a tilted manner relative to the main flow direction of a hot gas flowing through the base body.

Machine component and gas turbine

A machine component with a base body made of a base material, a part of the surface of which has been equipped with cladding material having a hardness greater in comparison to the base material. The cladding material is segmented and made up of a number of cladding segments that are spaced apart on the machine component. Each cladding segment may be disposed within a respective recess on the surface of the base body forming strips of the base body and material, and each such strip is disposed between consecutive segments forming a continuous surface.

Armor-plated machine components and gas turbines

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Martin Stapper