Westinghouse Electric Corporation

The United States of America As Represented by the United States

Stephen J Jennings

Robert A Yannone

Robert L Osborne

Paul H Haley

John F Reuther

J Michael Wittig

Diagnostic apparatus for monitoring a system subject to malfunctions. Estimates are obtained relating normal system operation to operating variables. Estimates are additionally obtained relating specific malfunctions to specific variables. The variables are combined in accordance with predetermined functions to get an indication of a particular malfunction. This indication is modified by a factor related to the normal operation of the system to yield a probability of the occurrence of the malfunction, and which probability is limited to a value less than 100%.

Method and apparatus for the automatic diagnosis of system malfunctions

Two gas turbine power plants are started and accelerated by fuel controls on selection of dead load mode. The startup is coordinated so that one turbine-generator is controlled as the lead unit and it is driven to a speed higher than normal, short of overspeed condition at which time its breaker is closed on an auxiliary bus. Shortly thereafter the second turbine-generator is synchronized to the first and its generator breaker is closed to the auxiliary bus. The two units are then ready for a simultaneous 200% load pickup from the dead load bus. After the load is applied, the lead unit is placed under isochronous control and the follow unit is tracked to the lead unit. Turbine lead/follow roles can be reversed during startup under certain conditions, and predetermined data is exchanged between the controls to enable coordinated dead load pickup operation.

System for operating multiple gas turbines for coordinated dead load

Two sets of hinged control doors for regulating motive steam flow from an evaporator to a condenser alternatively through a set of turbine blades in a steam bypass around the turbine blades. The evaporator has a toroidal shaped casing situated about the turbine's vertical axis of rotation and an outlet opening therein for discharging motive steam into an annular steam flow path defined between the turbine's radially inner and outer casing structures. The turbine blades extend across the steam flow path intermediate the evaporator and condenser. The first set of control doors is arranged to prevent steam access to the upstream side of the turbine blades and the second set of control doors acts as a bypass around the blades so as to maintain equilibrium between the evaporator and condenser during non-rotation of the turbine. The first set of control doors preferably extend, when closed, between the evaporator casing and the turbine's outer casing and, when open, extend away from the axis of rotation. The second set of control doors preferably constitute a portion of the turbine's outer casing downstream from the blades when closed and extend, when open, toward the axis of rotation. The first and second sets of control doors are normally held in the open and closed positions respectively by locking pins which may be retracted upon detecting an abnormal operating condition respectively to permit their closing and opening and provide steam flow from the evaporator to the condenser.

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Radnor, PA, United States of America

Stephen J Jennings