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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2021
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Brandon Wayne Miller, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Mason, OH (US);
Daniel Alan Niergarth, Norwood, OH (US);
Scott Alan Schimmels, Miamisburg, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting an airflow fault condition in a gas turbine engine, the method including: operating the gas turbine engine with a thermal transport bus having an intermediary heat exchange fluid flowing therethrough; determining a performance characteristic of the intermediary heat exchange fluid in the thermal transport bus is outside of a predetermined range, wherein the performance characteristic includes a temperature, a pressure, a flowrate, or a combination thereof; and indicating an airflow fault condition in response to determining the performance characteristic is outside of the predetermined range.