General Electric Company

Peter Thomas Harrison

Avinash Vinayak Taware

Michael Richard Durling

Steven Keith Handelsman

Andrew Todd Lehmann

Richard B Hook

William Lee Barrow

John Lewis Moulton

Kenneth Paul Meiners

Teeporn Paul Tanpitukpongse

Kail Lester Linebrink

Richard Bradford Hook

A method of monitoring a physical parameter comprises receiving a sensor signal representative of an actual value from each of a plurality of sensors. The method further comprises calculating confidence value for each sensed value and a weighted average of actual values of the sensor signal by weighting each sensed value by the respective confidence value. The weighted average is used to determine a corresponding value of the sensed parameter.

System and method for sensor validation and fusion

A flameout detection system for an engine that facilitates detection of flameout in the engine in a cost-effective and reliable manner is described. A method implemented by the device includes the steps of detecting a rate of change of gas generator speed, also described as engine deceleration rate, and declaring a flameout if a deceleration rate of the engine is greater than a pre-determined threshold.

Methods and apparatus for detecting turbine engine flameout

A method of detecting partial flame out in a gas turbine engine combustor is provided which involves the steps of establishing a model for performance of the engine during a particular operating mode of the combustor, wherein the model assumes that all fuel supplied during the combustor operating mode is burned, calculating a value for an engine parameter in the model representative of engine performance, obtaining a sensed value for the engine parameter during operation of the engine at the combustor operating mode, and comparing the calculated value of the engine parameter and the sensed value of the engine parameter, wherein partial flame out of the combustor is detected when the sensed value of the engine parameter differs from the calculated value of the engine parameter by a predetermined amount. This method may be modified in order to take into account performance of the specific engine by establishing a reference value for the engine parameter based on the performance of the engine during the combustor operating mode at total fuel burn and comparing the difference of the sensed and calculated value of the engine parameter to the reference value of the engine parameter before determining whether the difference of the sensed and calculated values of the engine parameter differ by the predetermined amount. Alternatively, the predetermined amount may be modified according to any distinction between performance of the engine and the average performance of a gas turbine engine within the same engine line.

System and method of detecting partial flame out in a gas turbine engine

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