US 12,215,637 B2
Liquid fuel system for a turbomachine
Baha Suleiman, Dammam (SA); Hatem M. Selim, Dammam (SA); Majed Sammak, Dammam (SA); Alaaeldin Elsaeed Dawood, Dammam (SA); and Abdurrahman Abdallah Khalidi, Dubai (AE)
Assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/943,506.
Prior Publication US 2024/0084743 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. F02C 9/40 (2006.01); F02C 3/30 (2006.01); F02C 7/224 (2006.01)
CPC F02C 9/40 (2013.01) [F02C 3/30 (2013.01); F02C 7/224 (2013.01); F05D 2260/213 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid fuel system for a turbomachine, the liquid fuel system comprising:
an accessory system having a flow divider, wherein the flow divider includes an input line and a plurality of outlet lines each fluidly coupled to a combustion can of a plurality of combustion cans in a combustion section;
a mixing unit disposed upstream of the flow divider and in fluid communication with the input line;
a plurality of liquid fuel supply systems, each liquid fuel supply system fluidly coupled to the mixing unit; and
a controller communicatively coupled to the mixing unit and the plurality of liquid fuel supply systems, the controller comprising memory and one or more processors, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the liquid fuel system to perform operations including:
providing two or more liquid fuels from the plurality of liquid fuel supply systems to the mixing unit, wherein the two or more liquid fuels comprise a first liquid fuel from a first liquid fuel supply system of the plurality of liquid fuel supply systems and a second liquid fuel from a second liquid fuel supply system of the plurality of liquid fuel supply systems, the second liquid fuel having a different chemical composition than the first liquid fuel;
mixing, with the mixing unit, the two or more liquid fuels to create a liquid fuel mixture; and
providing the liquid fuel mixture to each combustion can of the plurality of combustion cans in the combustion section of the turbomachine.