Gas Turbine Combustion System With In-Line Fuel Reforming And Methods Of Use Thereof
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsGilbert Otto Kraemer, Jeffrey Scott Goldmeer, John Thomas Herbon, Ertan Yilmaz
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Abstract
A process for providing a fuel supplied to one or more combustors in a gas turbine engine system, comprising: reforming a fraction of the fuel in one or more fuel circuits of the gas turbine combustion system with a plasma reformer system to form at least one of hydrogen and higher order hydrocarbons to be supplied to the one or more combustors with a remaining fraction of the fuel; and controlling at least one of power and fuel flow to the plasma reformer system with an active feedback control system.
Claims19
A process for providing a fuel supplied to one or more combustors in a gas turbine engine system, comprising:
- reforming a fraction of the fuel in one or more fuel circuits of the gas turbine combustion system with a plasma reformer system to form at least one of hydrogen and higher order hydrocarbons to be supplied to the one or more combustors with a remaining fraction of the fuel;
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- controlling at least one of power and fuel flow to the plasma reformer system with an active feedback control system.
A gas turbine engine system, comprising:
- a compressor, a plurality of combustors, and a turbine;
- a fuel system comprising one or more fuel circuits configured to provide fuel to the plurality of combustors;
- a plasma reformer system in fluid communication with the one or more fuel circuits and configured to reform a fraction of the fuel in the one or more fuel circuits;
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- a control system configured to regulate at least one of power and fuel flow to the plasma reformer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.