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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sanji Ekanayake, Mableton, GA (US);
Thomas C. Billheimer, Atlanta, GA (US);
Douglas Corbin Warwick, Roswell, GA (US);
Alston Ilford Scipio, Mableton, GA (US);
Dale J. Davis, Greenville, SC (US);
Jason Nathaniel Cook, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Vahid Vaezi, Greer, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for measuring a flow profile in a portion of a flow path in a turbine engine is provided. The system includes a mass flow sensor assembly having a plurality of hot wire mass flow sensors, the mass flow sensor assembly disposed in the portion of the flow path at a location where the flow profile is to be measured. The system also includes a controller that converts signals from the temperature sensor, the pressure sensor and the plurality of hot wire mass flow sensors to flow profile measurements.