Method and system for real time reporting of boiler adjustment using emission sensor data mapping
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsDean Draxton, Craig Gordon Stephens
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Abstract
A method for displaying a changing combustor condition including: sensing the combustor condition in real time using a sensor array in a gas path of the combustor; generating data from the sensor array representative of the combustor condition at a plurality of positions in the gas path; transmitting the generated data to a computer system proximate to a controller for the combustor; generating a graphical representation of the real time showing combustor conditions in the gas path, and displaying the graphical representation in real time on the computer system.
Claims20
A method of presenting a changing combustor condition comprising:
- a. sensing the combustor condition using a sensor array in a gas path of the combustor;
- b. generating data from the sensor array representative of the combustor condition at a plurality of positions in the gas path;
- c. transmitting the generated data to a computer system proximate to a control interface for the combustor;
- d. generating a graphical representation of the showing combustion product conditions in the gas path;
- e. displaying the graphical representation on the computer system;
- f. adjusting combustion controls at the control interface to change the combustor conditions, and
- g. repeating steps (a) to (d) to accjuire a sequence of graphical representations of the combustion product conditions over a period of time.
A method of presenting a changing combustor condition comprising:
- a. sensing the combustor condition in near real time using a sensor array in a gas path of the combustor;
- b. generating data from the sensor array representative of the combustor condition at a plurality of positions in the gas path;
- c. transmitting the generated data in near real-time to a computer system, where the computer system is at a location proximate to a control interface for the boiler;
- d. generating a graphical representation of the near real time showing combustor conditions in the gas path;
- e. displaying the graphical representation in near real time on the computer system;
- f. repeating steps (a) to (d) periodically to acquire generated data form the sensor array at a plurality of different times, and
- g. displaying a sequence of graphical representations of combustor conditions at each of the different times.
A system for collecting and presenting a changing combustor condition in a boiler comprising:
- a sensor grid located in a combustion product gas path in the boiler, said grid sensing the combustor condition in real time using a sensor array in the gas path and generating data representative of the combustor condition at a plurality of positions in the gas path and at a plurality of different times;
- a network for communicating electronic data;
- a computer system coupled to the network and further comprising a controller and a display, wherein said controller receives the generated data and generates a graphical representations of the real time showing combustor conditions in the gas path and of a sequence of prior combustor conditions in the gas path, and said graphical representation is presented on said display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.