General Electric Company

Maruthi Manohar Jupudi

Jalal Hunain Zia

Deoras Prabhudharwadkar

Alston Ilford Scipio

Bradly Aaron Kippel

Rebecca Evelyn Hefner

Christopher Joseph Homison

Paul Mathew

Juergen Gerhard Hoffmann

Pavan Kumar Singh Thakur

Nagesh Laxminarayana Kurella

Murali Krishna Kalaga

Majed Sammak

Bouria Mohamed Faqihi

Abdurrahman Abdallah Khalidi

Kamel Abdelkader Tayebi

Mallareddy Soudary

Ashok Kumar Balumuri

Sumith Unniyattil

Jose Antonio Cuevas Alvarez

Chandrakanth Alahari

Mitigating particulate intrusion to an air intake system of a gas turbine system with intrusion protective coatings tailored to locale of operation. A particulate intrusion protective coating is applied to a surface of a component of the air intake system to mitigate ingress of particulates within the air intake system and the gas turbine system. The particulate intrusion protective coating includes one or more particulate ingress influencing properties tailored to the common attributes of the particulates associated with the locale of operation of the gas turbine engine and the air intake system. The particulate ingress influencing properties affect rebounding and coalescing characteristics of the particulates at a point of impact with the applied surface having the particulate intrusion protective coating, entraining the particulates at the point of impact and inhibiting further ingress along an inlet air flow path of the air intake system into the gas turbine engine.

System and method for mitigating particulate intrusion to an air intake system of a gas turbine system with intrusion protective coatings tailored to locale of operation

A control system for turbine systems configured to utilize an intelligent model of particulate presence and accumulation within turbine systems to address engine maintenance, erosion, corrosion, and parts failure mitigation is disclosed. The control system may build an intelligent model of fluid flow based on the data value measured by at least one sensor and based on a database of known data values to provide an estimation of amount of ingress of air intake particles into the turbine system, fouling within the turbine system, erosion of at least a portion of the turbine system, and performance degradation rate of the turbine system.

Turbine system with particulate presence and accumulation model for particulate ingress detection

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

An evaporative cooling system for a gas turbine includes a first plurality of evaporative cooling media, spaced from the other evaporative cooling media. The system also includes a plurality of valves, with water flowing through at least one valve to fully wet at least one evaporative cooling medium. In one mode of operation, at least one evaporative cooling medium remains dry.

Variable evaporative cooling system

A turbocharger system includes a low pressure turbocharger (LPT) that includes an LPT compressor and an LPT turbine. The turbocharger system is configured to divide ambient air compressed by the LPT compressor into a heat exchanger flow and an HPT compressor inlet flow. The turbocharger system also includes a high pressure turbocharger (HPT) that includes an HPT compressor and an HPT turbine. The HPT compressor is configured to further compress the HPT compressor inlet flow, which is then channeled to a rotary machine as auxiliary compressed air. The turbocharger system further includes a heat exchanger configured to place the heat exchanger flow into thermal communication with exhaust gases associated with the rotary machine. The discharged heat exchanger flow is divided into parallel streams, and the LPT turbine and the HPT turbine are each configured to be driven by a respective one of the parallel streams.

Turbocharger system for a rotary machine and method of assembling the same

Certain embodiments of the disclosure may include systems and methods for tracking the quality and efficiency of the machine instructions to operate an associated controller. The method may include: receiving, by at least one processor, a plurality of rules associated with an optimization procedure for a plurality of machine instructions for operating an associated controller; determining an evaluation, by the at least one processor, for the plurality of machine instructions based at least in part on the plurality of rules; and outputting the evaluation.

Systems and methods for tracking the quality and efficiency of machine instructions for operating an associated controller

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