Liquid fluid systems including phase detection sensors for turbine engines
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsArthur William Sibbach, Brandon Wayne Miller
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Abstract
A liquid fuel system for a turbine engine may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor outputs corresponding to one or more phase properties of a fuel supplied to the turbine engine through a fuel pathway, and a controller configured to generate control commands configured to control one or more controllable components of the liquid fuel system based at least in part on the sensor outputs. The one or more sensors may include one or more phase detection sensors. The fuel may include hydrogen. The fuel may have a liquid phase state.
Claims20
A pericritical fluid system comprising:
- a sensor configured to generate a sensor output corresponding to a first phase property of a pericritical fluid flowing through a cooling circuit of a thermal management system associated with a turbine engine, the sensor comprising a phase detection sensor including an acoustic sensor;
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- a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor, the controller configured to generate a control command configured to control a controllable component of the thermal management system based at least in part on the sensor output.
A pericritical fluid system for a thermal management system associated with a turbine engine, the pericritical fluid system comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to generate sensor outputs corresponding to one or more phase properties of a pericritical fluid flowing through a cooling circuit of the thermal management system;
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- a controller communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors, the controller configured to generate control commands configured to control one or more controllable components of the thermal management system based at least in part on the sensor outputs;
- wherein the one or more sensors comprise one or more phase detection sensors including an acoustic sensor, wherein the one or more phase detection sensors further comprise an optical sensor, wherein the optical sensor comprises an infrared spectrometer, the infrared spectrometer comprising an infrared light source, a measurement window configured to be in contact with fuel, and an infrared detector configured to detect infrared light transmitted through the measurement window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.