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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Leonard Charles Angello, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Emerson, East Point, GA (US);
Timothy Charles Lieuwen, Atlanta, GA (US);
David Robert Noble, Vale, NC (US);
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A non-transitory computer readable medium with instructions stored thereon, the instructions executable by one or more processors for calculating base swirl in a gas turbine; and calculating relative swirl in the gas turbine. Also, a method for gas turbine maintenance, comprising identifying a combustor in need of repair or replacement within a gas turbine; and repairing or replacing the combustor; wherein said identifying comprises calculating base swirl of the gas turbine and calculating relative swirl of the gas turbine in order to associate a gas path from a thermocouple to the combustor in need of repair or replacement.