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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2014
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Heiko Claussen, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Nancy H. Ulerich, Longwood, FL (US);
Zainul Momin, Winter Park, FL (US);
Patrick Ronald Flohr, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, DE;
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
The state of a flame in a subject combustor of a gas turbine engine is acoustically monitored using a dynamic pressure sensor within the subject combustor and one or more additional sensors in nearby combustors. Dynamic pressure sensor output signals from the sensors are cross correlated to identify acoustic oscillations generated by a flame in the subject combustor and received by the sensors. The cross correlation may be constrained by a maximum time delay between correlated components of the signals, based on physical characteristics.