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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2011
Vijay Anand Raghavendran Nenmeni, Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Joseph Alexander, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Paul William Plummer, Houston, TX (US);
Timothy Lee Janssen, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Vijay Anand Raghavendran Nenmeni, Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Joseph Alexander, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Paul William Plummer, Houston, TX (US);
Timothy Lee Janssen, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that allows air to be extracted from a plurality of gas turbine engines and fed to a downstream process, even in situations in which one or more of the gas turbine engines are operating in a part load condition. For example, in an embodiment, a method includes monitoring signals representative of a header pressure of a header, or a pressure of extraction air flow from one or more gas turbine engines to the header, or both, and maintaining substantially continuous flows of extraction air from the gas turbine engines to the header. The substantially continuous flows are maintained when the gas turbine engines are under symmetric and asymmetric load conditions.