General Electric Company

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Steven C Castellaw

David August Snider

Mark William Pinson

Thomas Earnest Moldenhauer

Bouria Mohamed Faqihi

James Frederik Den Outer

Michael John Lynch

Sheng Jia Zheng

Robert Walter Arnold

Richard Preston Epley

Abdul Khaliq

Christopher Grant Cooper

Mark Mitchell

A method of igniting liquid fuel in a turbomachine combustor is provided. The method includes a step of initiating a flow of gaseous fuel from a gaseous fuel supply to a gaseous fuel nozzle. The method further includes a step of initiating a flow of liquid fuel from a liquid fuel supply to a primary liquid fuel cartridge. After initiating both the flow of gaseous fuel and the flow of liquid fuel, the method includes a step of igniting the flow of gaseous fuel and the flow of liquid fuel with an igniter. The method further includes a step of terminating the flow of gaseous fuel from the gaseous fuel supply to the gaseous fuel nozzle.

Methods of igniting liquid fuel in a turbomachine

A method for detecting leakage at a fluid connection for a gas turbine fuel supply system is disclosed herein. The method includes closing a flow control valve at an upstream end of the fuel supply system and pressurizing the fuel supply system with a compressed medium via a compressed medium supply to a target pressure. The target pressure is less than a pressure threshold of a check valve that is disposed downstream from the compressed medium supply and upstream from a corresponding combustor of the gas turbine. The method further includes pointing a receiver portion of an ultrasonic detection device proximate to at least one tube fitting of the fuel supply system located between the flow control valve and a combustor which is fluidly coupled to the fuel supply system. Detection of an increase in sound level and/or the sound of popping at the tube fitting is indicative of a leak at the tube fitting.

Method for detecting leaks in a fuel circuit of a gas turbine fuel supply system

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Steven C Castellaw