General Electric Company

Ge Oil & Gas Esp, Inc.

Scott Mordin Hoyte

Eric Gebhardt

Vivek Venugopal Badami

Achalesh Kumar Pandey

Richard Dale Slates

Awadesh Kumar Tiwari

Chayan Mitra

Ayan Banerjee

Mahesh Kumar Asati

Sherrie Ann Clark

Stephen Robert Schmid

Erin K Bauknight

Thomas James Batzinger

Jeremy Daniel Van Dam

Jacob John Kittleson

John Wesley Grant

Samuel David Draper

Michael John Bowman

Aninda Bhattacharya

Sam David Draper

Michael Franklin Hughes

Ravi Yoganatha Babu

Christopher Eugene Long

Mandar Diwakar Godbole

Yoon Seok Choi

Wangming Lu

Wei Ning

Samer Aljabari

Jagmeet Singh

Vikas Handa

Jeremiah Robert Ferguson

Luciano Joseph Cerone

Sam D Draper

A pumping system for use in moving a fluid present within a well casing and through a production tubing is provided. The pumping system includes a housing coupled to the production tubing. The pumping system further includes a first pump coupled to the housing and having a first flow capacity and a second pump coupled to the housing and having a second flow capacity. The second flow capacity is different than the first flow capacity. A motor is coupled to the first pump and the second pump, wherein the motor is configured to selectively operate at least one of the first pump and the second pump based on a flow capacity of the fluid present within the well casing.

Pumping system for a wellbore and methods of assembling the same

A method of operating a pumping system includes an electric motor and a variable speed drive. The method includes the steps of setting a first preference for the operation of the motor, loading a first optimized motor model into the variable speed drive and controlling the motor in accordance with the first preference. The method continues with the steps of monitoring the performance of the motor and setting a second preference for the operation of the motor, wherein the second preference is different from the first preference. The method concludes with the steps of loading a second optimized motor model into the variable speed drive and controlling the motor in accordance with the second preference.

Electric submersible pumping system with permanent magnet motor

An electric submersible pumping system has an electric motor, a pump assembly driven by the electric motor and a sensor module. The sensor module preferably includes a detachable sensor array that can be selectively released from the sensor module. In preferred embodiments, the detachable sensor array includes a self-propelled sensor array vehicle that has a drive motor, a drive mechanism driven by the drive motor and a sensor array. The detachable sensor array provides a wellbore condition signal that can be used to automatically adjust the performance of the electric submersible pumping system.

Forward deployed sensing array for an electric submersible pump

Systems and methods provided herein output an operational advisory based upon a plurality of models derived from a plurality of data, in which the plurality of models comprise at least one of a plant transfer function, a degradation contributor model, or a plant level cost model, and in which the plurality of data is derived from at least one of current plant data, historical plant data, business data, environmental data, component data, degradation contribution data, an optimization goal, or a combination thereof.

Plant control optimization system including visual risk display

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for advising and operating a power plant and related devices. In an embodiment, a power plant operator via a clientrequests from a serveradvisory information regarding a current power plant startup. The clientmay receive custom advisory information based on data of an initial state of the power plant and data from past power plant startups.

Method and system for managing plant operation

A combustion gas measurement apparatus mounted in a gas turbine including: a tunable laser generating a radiation beam passing through a combustion gas path; a controller tuning the laser to emit radiation having at least a first selected wavelength and a second selected wavelength which both correspond to temperature-dependent transitions of a combustion species of the gas, wherein the first selected wavelength and the second selected wavelength are not near absorption peaks of neighboring wavelengths; a detector sensing the radiation beam passing through the combustion gas and generating an absorption signal indicative of an absorption of the beam by the combustion gas at each of the first wavelength and the second wavelength, and a processor executing a program stored on a non-transitory storage medium determining a combustion gas temperature based on a ratio of the adoption signals for the first wavelength and the second wavelength.

Hot gas temperature measurement in gas turbine using tunable diode laser

A system for use in monitoring operation of a rotor assembly is provided. The system includes a plurality of clearance sensors including at least a first clearance sensor configured to measure a distance between the first sensor and a surface of a lockwire tab, and a monitoring unit coupled to the plurality of clearance sensors, the monitoring unit configured to receive measurements from the plurality of clearance sensors, and determine whether a crack exists in the rotor assembly based on the received measurements.

Systems and methods for use in monitoring operation of a rotating component

A method and system for operating a facility having a plurality of equipment combinations wherein each equipment combination is operating interactively with at least one of another of the plurality of equipment combination is provided. The method includes receiving, in real-time, for each of the plurality of equipment combinations, a plurality of measured process parameters, determining at least one derived quantity from the plurality of measured process parameters, and recommending a change to an equipment operation based on the measured process parameters and the derived quantities.

Systems for monitoring machinery

A system for the monitoring and/or controlling emission levels of nitrogen oxide and a reductant from a stream of combustion exhaust, wherein the internal combustion engine includes a SCR unit disposed in the stream of combustion exhaust between an upstream conduit and a downstream conduit, the SCR unit having a catalyst that is configured to catalytically reduce nitrogen oxides contained in the combustion exhaust to elemental nitrogen in the presence of a reductant and oxygen, and wherein the internal combustion engine further includes a reductant injector; the system comprising: a laser absorption spectroscopy unit that is disposed in the downstream conduit and configured to measure the concentration level of at least nitrogen oxide and the reductant in the exhaust; and a control unit.

Systems and apparatus relating to the monitoring and/or controlling of selective catalytic reduction processes

A system for creating a risk analysis for at least one turbomachine includes a database storing characteristics of one or more turbomachines and a processing module coupled to the database that receives the characteristics from the database and creates the risk analysis. The processing module includes a modeling module that creates a representation of the amount of rocking in a particular turbomachine based on the characteristics and a performance modeler coupled to the modeling module and that, based on the representation of the amount of rocking, creates the risk analysis.

Turbomachine airfoil life management system and method

Systems and methods may be provided for exhaust gas recirculation. The systems and methods may include receiving, via an intake section, inlet air at an input of a compressor, generating compressed air at the compressor using the received inlet air, and providing the compressed air from the compressor to a combustor, where the combustor produces combustion involving the compressed air and fuel. The systems and methods may also include receiving combustion products associated with the combustion at a turbine component, where the turbine component releases exhaust gases, and recirculating at least a portion of the exhaust gases to the intake section via a recirculation line, where the recirculated exhaust gases raise a temperature of the inlet air.

Systems and methods for exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) for turbine engines

A method of operating a turbine, the method including the steps of: 1) gathering measured creep data for a blade while the turbine operates at different operating temperatures, the measured creep data comprising at least a measured creep rate for the blade (wherein the different operating temperatures include at least a first operating temperature and a second operating temperature); and 2) given the measured creep data for the blade while the turbine operated at the first operating temperature and the measured creep data for the blade while the turbine operated at the second operating temperature, determining whether operating the turbine at the first operating temperature or the second operating temperature is more economically efficient.

Determining optimal turbine operating temperature based on creep rate data and predicted revenue data

A method for determining the radial deformation of a blade in a turbine that includes: 1) taking an initial measurement of the blade with one or more proximity sensors disposed around the circumference of a stage of blades; 2) after the initial measurement, taking a second measurement of the blade with the one or more proximity sensors; 3) making a determination of the radial deformation of the blade by comparing the initial measurement to the second measurement. The initial measurement and the second measurement may be taken while the turbine is operating.

Method and systems for measuring blade deformation in turbines

Method for monitoring driven machinery

A method of testing a cable is provided. The method includes measuring at least one inductive ratio for the cable, determining an inductive gap from the at least one inductive ratio, measuring a parallel impedance of the cable, and determining a resistance of the cable based on the inductive gap and the parallel impedance.

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