Patents by Inventor Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling
Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11028784Abstract: A control system for a gas turbine includes a controller. The controller includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of signals from sensors disposed in the gas turbine engine system, wherein the gas turbine system engine comprises a compressor section fluidly coupled to a gas turbine section. The processor is additionally configured to derive a vanadium content in a gas turbine engine fuel based on at least one of the plurality of signals. The processor is also configured to determine if a control curve should be adjusted based on the vanadium content in the gas turbine engine fuel, and if it is determined that the control curve should be adjusted, then deriving an adjustment to the control curve based on the vanadium content, and applying the adjustment to the control curve to derive an adjusted control curve.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Pugalenthi Nandagopal, Vikram Muralidharan, Veerappan Muthaiah, Harold Jordan, Jr., Maher Mohamad Aboujaib, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Sanyu Victoria Nakibuuka Njuki, Pierre Montagne, Sven Sébastien Catrin, Ezio M. Pena Saavedra, Laurent Balcer, Dmitry Sokolov
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Patent number: 10907547Abstract: A system includes a turbine combustor and one or more supply circuits configured to supply one or more fluids to the turbine combustor. The one or more supply circuits include at least a liquid fuel supply circuit fluidly coupled to a liquid fuel source and configured to supply a liquid fuel from the liquid fuel source to the turbine combustor. The system also includes a corrosion inhibitor injection system including a magnesium source storing a magnesium-based inhibitor that includes magnesium oxide (MgO) and an yttrium source storing an yttrium-based inhibitor that includes yttrium oxide (Y2O3). The corrosion inhibitor injection system is fluidly coupled to the turbine combustor and the one or more supply circuits, and is configured to inject the magnesium-based inhibitor and the yttrium-based inhibitor as vanadium corrosion inhibitors into the turbine combustor or the one or more supply circuits.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Pierre Olivier Montagne, Sundar Amancherla, Krishnamurthy Anand, David Terry Trayhan, Jr., Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Maher Aboujaib, Abdurrahman Abdallah Khalidi
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Publication number: 20200088110Abstract: A control system for a gas turbine includes a controller. The controller includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of signals from sensors disposed in the gas turbine engine system, wherein the gas turbine system engine comprises a compressor section fluidly coupled to a gas turbine section. The processor is additionally configured to derive a vanadium content in a gas turbine engine fuel based on at least one of the plurality of signals. The processor is also configured to determine if a control curve should be adjusted based on the vanadium content in the gas turbine engine fuel, and if it is determined that the control curve should be adjusted, then deriving an adjustment to the control curve based on the vanadium content, and applying the adjustment to the control curve to derive an adjusted control curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Pugalenthi Nandagopal, Vikram Muralidharan, Veerappan Muthaiah, Harold Jordan, JR., Maher Mohamad Aboujaib, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Sanyu Victoria Nakibuuka Njuki, Pierre Montagne, Sven Sébastien Catrin, Ezio M. Pena Saavedra, Laurent Balcer, Dmitry Sokolov
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Publication number: 20190040800Abstract: A system includes a turbine combustor and one or more supply circuits configured to supply one or more fluids to the turbine combustor. The one or more supply circuits include at least a liquid fuel supply circuit fluidly coupled to a liquid fuel source and configured to supply a liquid fuel from the liquid fuel source to the turbine combustor. The system also includes a corrosion inhibitor injection system including a magnesium source storing a magnesium-based inhibitor that includes magnesium oxide (MgO) and an yttrium source storing an yttrium-based inhibitor that includes yttrium oxide (Y2O3). The corrosion inhibitor injection system is fluidly coupled to the turbine combustor and the one or more supply circuits, and is configured to inject the magnesium-based inhibitor and the yttrium-based inhibitor as vanadium corrosion inhibitors into the turbine combustor or the one or more supply circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Pierre Olivier MONTAGNE, Sundar AMANCHERLA, Krishnamurthy ANAND, David Terry TRAYHAN, JR., Matthieu Paul Frederic VIERLING, Maher ABOUJAIB, Abdurrahman Abdallah KHALIDI
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Patent number: 10184091Abstract: A process based on the combined use of yttrium and magnesium to inhibit vanadium corrosion of high temperature parts of thermal equipment. The combined use of yttrium and magnesium, applied in a variable yttrium/magnesium ratio, compared with conventional magnesium inhibition, may reduce emission of magnesium vanadate and minimize losses of performance due to fouling of the high temperature parts, including in the presence of alkali metals. Further, compared with inhibition based on yttrium alone, it may reduce the inhibition cost and reinforce the protection against combined vanadium pentoxide and sodium sulfate corrosion.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Pierre Olivier Montagne, Sundar Amancherla, Krishnamurthy Anand, David Terry Trayhan, Jr., Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Maher Aboujaib, Abdurrahman Abdallah Khalidi
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Patent number: 9976488Abstract: A method of operating of a gas turbine engine to inhibit vanadic corrosion of the gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine burns a vanadium-contaminated fuel and includes a component configured to be in contact with combustion gases. The method includes introducing into a combustion system of the gas turbine engine a first oxide and at least one second oxide. The first oxide includes magnesium oxide, and the at least one second oxide includes at least one of aluminum oxide, iron (III) oxide, titanium dioxide, and silicon dioxide. The method further includes cleaning at least a portion of the component using a cleaning agent containing a liquid vector and at least one descaling material that is suspended in the liquid vector. The at least one descaling material is an inorganic material.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: GE Energy Products France SNCInventors: Dmitry Sokolov, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Christophe Fabrice Verdy, Michel Marie Raymond Moliere
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Publication number: 20170158978Abstract: A process based on the combined use of yttrium and magnesium to inhibit vanadium corrosion of high temperature parts of thermal equipment. The combined use of yttrium and magnesium, applied in a variable yttrium/magnesium ratio, compared with conventional magnesium inhibition, may reduce emission of magnesium vanadate and minimize losses of performance due to fouling of the high temperature parts, including in the presence of alkali metals. Further, compared with inhibition based on yttrium alone, it may reduce the inhibition cost and reinforce the protection against combined vanadium pentoxide and sodium sulfate corrosion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Pierre Olivier Montagne, Sundar Amancherla, Krishnamurthy Anand, David Terry Trayhan, JR., Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Maher Aboujaib, Abdurrahman Abdallah Khalidi
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Publication number: 20150300263Abstract: A method of operating of a gas turbine engine to inhibit vanadic corrosion of the gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine burns a vanadium-contaminated fuel and includes a component configured to be in contact with combustion gases. The method includes introducing into a combustion system of the gas turbine engine a first oxide and at least one second oxide. The first oxide includes magnesium oxide, and the at least one second oxide includes at least one of aluminum oxide, iron (III) oxide, titanium dioxide, and silicon dioxide. The method further includes cleaning at least a portion of the component using a cleaning agent containing a liquid vector and at least one descaling material that is suspended in the liquid vector. The at least one descaling material is an inorganic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Dmitry Sokolov, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Christophe Fabrice Verdy, Michel Marie Raymond Moliere
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Patent number: 8355819Abstract: In operating a gas turbine, there can be a difference between the desired heating value of the fuel and the actual needs of the fuel for the supplied fuel to be ignited. In one aspect, fuel parameters related to the molecular weight of the fuel such as specific gravity and pressure drop are determined. Ignitability of the fuel is calculated based on the fuel parameters and adjusted as necessary to bring the fuel's ignitability to designed values. The fuel's ignitability can be calculated without actually igniting the fuel and also without direct knowledge of the fuel's calorific value or its composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Kirzhner, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Nicolas Pourron, Denis Michel Martin
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Publication number: 20120102914Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for compensating fuel composition variations in a gas turbine. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for compensating for fuel composition variations in a turbine. The method can include: monitoring at least one fuel parameter associated with a turbine combustor; monitoring one or more combustion dynamics characteristics associated with the turbine combustor; monitoring one or more performance and emissions characteristics associated with the turbine; estimating fuel composition based at least in part on the at least one fuel parameter, the one or more combustion dynamics characteristics, and the one or more performance and emissions characteristics, and adjusting at least one fuel parameter based at least in part on the estimated fuel composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Joseph Kirzhner, Matthieu Paul Frederic Vierling, Nicolas Pourron, Denis Michel Martin, Predrag Popovic
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Publication number: 20120079831Abstract: In operating a gas turbine, there can be a difference between the desired heating value of the fuel and the actual needs of the fuel for the supplied fuel to be ignited. In one aspect, fuel parameters related to the molecular weight of the fuel such as specific gravity and pressure drop are determined. Ignitability of the fuel is calculated based on the fuel parameters and adjusted as necessary to bring the fuel's ignitability to designed values. The fuel's ignitability can be calculated without actually igniting the fuel and also without direct knowledge of the fuel's calorific value or its composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Inventors: Joseph KIRZHNER, Matthieu Paul Frederic VIERLING, Nicolas POURRON, Denis Michel MARTIN