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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2022
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Brandon Wayne Miller, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Brian Lewis Devendorf, Georgetown, MA (US);
Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Mason, OH (US);
Brian Gene Brzek, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Kevin Edward Hinderliter, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Erich Alois Krammer, West Chester, OH (US);
Arthur William Sibbach, Boxford, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for operating a thermal management system of a gas turbine engine. The method includes: operating the gas turbine engine to start-up the gas turbine engine; receiving data indicative of a state of a thermal transport bus of the thermal management system using a sensor, the state of the thermal transport bus including a phase of a thermal fluid within the thermal transport bus; and starting a pump of a pump assembly in response to receiving data indicative of the state of the thermal transport bus of the thermal management system, the pump in fluid communication with the thermal transport bus.