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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Mert Geveci, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Lawrence Meyer, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A control system for a power plant includes a sensor that measures a rotor surface temperature of a steam turbine rotor, where the temperature is a function of exhaust gasses from a heat source for heating steam to a target temperature. The control system includes a controller coupled to the sensor and configured to compute the target temperature using an inverse process model for steam turbine rotor stress dynamics, and based on a reference steam turbine rotor stress and a feedback steam turbine rotor stress, compute a measured steam turbine rotor stress based on a measured surface temperature of the steam turbine rotor, compute an estimated steam turbine rotor stress using a process model for the steam turbine rotor stress dynamics, and based on the target temperature, and compute the feedback steam turbine rotor stress based on the measured steam turbine rotor stress and the estimated steam turbine rotor stress.