General Electric Company

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Vahid Vaezi

Alston Ilford Scipio

Sanji Ekanayake

Richard Alan Huntington

Franklin F Mittricker

Dale Joel Davis

Jason Nathaniel Cook

Douglas Corbin Warwick

Thomas C Billheimer

A system includes an oxidant compressor and a gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine includes a combustor section having a turbine combustor, a turbine driven by combustion products from the turbine combustor, and an exhaust gas compressor driven by the turbine. The exhaust gas compressor is configured to compress and route an exhaust flow to the turbine combustor and the oxidant compressor is configured to compress and route an oxidant flow to the turbine combustor. The gas turbine engine also includes an inlet oxidant heating system configured to route at least one of a first portion of the combustion products, or a second portion of the exhaust flow, or any combination thereof, to an inlet of the oxidant compressor.

System and method for an oxidant heating system

A method and system for measuring a flow profile in a portion of a flow path in a turbine engine is provided. The system includes a mass flow sensor assembly having a plurality of hot wire mass flow sensors, the mass flow sensor assembly disposed in the portion of the flow path at a location where the flow profile is to be measured. The system also includes a controller that converts signals from the temperature sensor, the pressure sensor and the plurality of hot wire mass flow sensors to flow profile measurements.

Systems and methods for measuring a flow profile in a turbine engine flow path

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