Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Combined with regulation of power output feature
Patent
1988-04-28
1990-11-06
Casaregola, Louis J.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Combined with regulation of power output feature
415119, F02C 7057
Patent
active
049675508
ABSTRACT:
A control system actively controls at least one troublesome mode of an unsteady motion phenomenon in turbomachinery in order to enable an increase in the operating range of the turbomachinery. For example, rotor blade flutter or rotating stall may be controlled in a turbocompressor. The control system has a control bandwidth which is at least partly coexstensive with the bandwidth of the unsteady motion phenomenon and operates by passing sensor signals related to the unsteady motion phenomenon from a sensor array in the turbomachine to a mode filter which produces a signal or signals which are related to the troublesome mode or modes. The selected mode signals are amplified and phase-shifted by time-variable amounts so as to produce control signals having controlled amplitude and phase relationship to the troublesome mode. Actuators in an actuator array are continuously driven by the control signals and produce physical effects in the turbomachine which act counter to the troublesome mode without exciting others.
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Acton Elizabeth
Cargill Alexander M.
Eatwell Graham P.
Ross Colin F.
Casaregola Louis J.
Rolls-Royce plc
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