Methods and apparatus for controlling liquid flow to a turbine fogging array. Some implementations are generally directed toward adjusting the output of a variable output pump that supplies water to the turbine fogging array. In some of those implementations, the output is adjusted based on a determined target pump output value that is indicative of a pump output required to change the moisture content of intake air of a combustion turbine to meet a target humidity value. Some implementations are generally directed toward actuating at least one control valve of a plurality of control valves that control liquid throughput to one or more fogging nozzles of a fogging array.

The present embodiments disclose a method of running an air inlet system upstream of one or more inlet air filters of a device protected by air filtration, wherein the method comprises: regulating the relative air humidity of the inlet air at the one or more inlet air filters in dependence of the inlet air filters differential pressure.

Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for determining an optimal engine inlet area to minimize spillage drag. An algorithm may utilize aircraft parameters, aircraft performance charts, and engine models to determine the engine inlet area as a function of engine air mass flow, airspeed, and air density at current ambient conditions.

Herein provided are systems and methods for operating an aircraft engine during inclement weather. At least one image of a location substantially in line with a heading of the aircraft is acquired. Based on the at least one image, an inclement weather condition in the location is detected. An alert mode of the engine is triggered upon detecting the inclement weather condition. Responsive to the alert mode being triggered, at least one predetermined performance parameter of the engine is monitored. Upon detecting a change in the at least one predetermined performance parameter beyond a predetermined threshold, at least one operating condition of the engine is altered.

An anti-ice arrangement for a gas turbine engine may comprise an engine static structure, a fan blade housed for rotation within the engine static structure, and a magnetic field source mounted in close proximity to the fan blade and configured for inducing eddy currents in the fan blade to increase a surface temperature of the fan blade.

A method for determining an engine heath of an aircraft engine includes determining, by one or more control devices, the aircraft engine is operating in a bleed off condition; determining, by the one or more control devices, a first engine health modifier value while the aircraft engine is operating in the bleed off condition, the first of engine health modifier value including a compressor leakage flow value; determining, by the one or more control devices, a second plurality of engine health modifier values while the aircraft engine is operating in a bleed on condition; and determining, by the one or more control devices, an engine health parameter using at least one of the second plurality of engine health modifier values determined while the aircraft engine is operating in the bleed on condition and the compressor leakage flow value determined while the aircraft engine was operating in the bleed off condition.

The present embodiments disclose a system for reducing inlet air temperature of a device, including: an air inlet, a fogging system that provides air cooling, wherein the fogging system includes at least one low pressure rotary atomiser working at a pressure that is, for example, between 0.5 and 6 bar, and one or more air filters.

The present invention provides a deep learning regulation and control and assembly method and device for large-scale high-speed rotary equipment based on dynamic vibration response properties. The present invention starts from geometrical deviation of multiple stages of rotor/stator of an aircraft engine, amount of unbalance of rotor/stator, rigidity of rotor/stator and vibration amplitude of rotor/stator, considers the influence of the area of the assembly contact surface between two stages of rotors/stators, and sets the rotation speed of rotor/stator to be the climbing rotation speed to obtain vibration amplitude parameters. According to the calculation method of the coaxiality, amount of unbalance, rigidity and vibration amplitude of multiple stages of rotor/stator, an objective function taking assembly phases as variables is established, a Monte Carlo method is used to solve the objective function, and a probability density function is solved according to a drawn distribution function to obtain the probability relationship between the contact surface runout of the rotor/stator of the aircraft engine and the final coaxiality, amount of unbalance, rigidity and vibration amplitude of multiple stages of rotor/stator, thereby realizing assembly optimization and distribution of tolerances of multiple stages of rotor/stator.

In an embodiment, a method includes flowing an exhaust gas from a turbine of a gas turbine system to an exhaust gas compressor of the gas turbine system via an exhaust recirculation path; evaluating moist flow parameters of the exhaust gas within an inlet section of the exhaust gas compressor using a controller comprising non-transitory media programmed with instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions; and modulating cooling of the exhaust gas within the exhaust recirculation path, heating of the exhaust gas within the inlet section of the exhaust gas compressor, or both, based on the evaluation.

An auxiliary power unit (APU) control system for an aircraft is disclosed. The APU control system includes an APU, one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory stores data comprising a database and program code that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the APU control system to receive a one or more ambient signals indicative of an air density value and one or more power signals indicative of a specific amount of power generated by the APU. The APU control system is further caused to determine a variable rotational speed of the APU based on the air density value and instruct the APU to operate at the variable rotational speed. The APU continues to generate the specific amount of power when operating at the variable rotational speed.