Turbine engine starting fuel control
CA 1067984 A · Owner: General Motors Corporation · Inventors: Schroff, Dennis E.
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Abstract of the Disclosure An engine start control circuit and fuel system for a gas turbine engine with a burner having a prevaporization chamber has metered fuel flow through a pilot and main fuel flow system in which a pilot nozzle of the air assist type is used to ignite fuel from a main fuel manifold that is supplied to the prevaporization chamber as a wall film of fuel. Control means are provided to energize the pilot fuel system to light the main fuel when the burner inlet temperature is below a predetermined set temperature corresponding to a temperature at which good fuel vaporization will occur on the walls of the prevaporization chamber. The control means also includes means …
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- Granted December 11, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 11, 1996.
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