Hydrogen fuel system for a gas turbine engine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMustafa Dindar, Scott Alan Schimmels
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Abstract
A method of operating a fuel management unit for a fuel system. The method including: receiving data indicative of a state of an exhaust assembly using a sensor of the fuel system, the state of the exhaust assembly including a temperature of a working gas flow within the exhaust assembly; determining an amount of a hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase to provide to a hydrogen delivery assembly in response to receiving data indicative of the state of the exhaust assembly; and directing one or more components to provide the determined amount of the hydrogen fuel to the hydrogen delivery assembly.
Claims20
A method of operating a fuel management unit for a fuel system, the method comprising:
- receiving data indicative of a state of an exhaust assembly using a sensor of the fuel system, the state of the exhaust assembly comprising a temperature of a working gas flow within the exhaust assembly;
- determining an amount of a hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase to provide to a hydrogen delivery assembly in response to receiving data indicative of the state of the exhaust assembly;
- directing one or more components to provide the determined amount of the hydrogen fuel in the liquid phase to the hydrogen delivery assembly;
- converting, with the hydrogen deliver assembly, the determined amount of hydrogen fuel in the liquid phase to hydrogen fuel in a gaseous phase;
- determining an amount of hydrogen fuel converted to the gaseous phase;
- and
- comparing the amount of hydrogen fuel converted to the gaseous phase to a desired amount of hydrogen fuel in the gaseous phase.
A gas turbine engine comprising:
- a turbomachine comprising a combustion section and an exhaust assembly arranged in serial flow order, the turbomachine further comprising a sensor;
- a fuel system comprising a hydrogen delivery assembly positioned in thermal communication with the exhaust assembly and in fluid communication with the combustion section;
- and
- a controller comprising a non-transitory memory and one or more processors, the non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the gas turbine engine to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving data indicative of a state of the exhaust assembly using the sensor of the turbomachine;
- determining an amount of a hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase to provide to the hydrogen delivery assembly in response to receiving data indicative of the state of the exhaust assembly;
- and
- directing one or more components to provide the determined amount of the hydrogen fuel in the liquid phase to the hydrogen delivery assembly;
- converting, with the hydrogen deliver assembly, the determined amount of hydrogen fuel in the liquid phase to hydrogen fuel in a gaseous phase;
- determining an amount of hydrogen fuel converted to the gaseous phase;
- and
- comparing the amount of hydrogen fuel converted to the gaseous phase to a desired amount of hydrogen fuel in the gaseous phase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.