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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2011
Alston I. Scipio, Atlanta, GA (US);
Thomas John Freeman, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ryan Eric Obenhoff, Atlanta, GA (US);
Sanji Ekanayake, Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Anthony Cocca, Atlanta, GA (US);
Mike Yarnold, Atlanta, GA (US);
Douglas Corbin Warwick, Atlanta, GA (US);
Joseph Klosinski, Atlanta, GA (US);
Alston I. Scipio, Atlanta, GA (US);
Thomas John Freeman, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ryan Eric Obenhoff, Atlanta, GA (US);
Sanji Ekanayake, Atlanta, GA (US);
Michael Anthony Cocca, Atlanta, GA (US);
Mike Yarnold, Atlanta, GA (US);
Douglas Corbin Warwick, Atlanta, GA (US);
Joseph Klosinski, Atlanta, GA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine system includes a compressor protection subsystem; a hibernation mode subsystem; and a control subsystem that controls the compressor subsystem and the hibernation subsystem. At partial loads on the turbine system, the compressor protection subsystem maintains an air flow through a compressor at an airflow coefficient for the partial load above a minimum flow rate coefficient where aeromechanical stresses occur in the compressor. The air fuel ratio in a combustor is maintained where exhaust gas emission components from the turbine are maintained below a predetermined component emission level while operating at partial loads.