Method and apparatus for categorizing the operating mode of a gas turbine

摘要

A method is disclosed for categorizing an operating mode of a gas turbine comprising: monitoring at least one operating condition of the gas turbine; using the operating condition to categorize an operating mode of the gas turbine into one of the plurality of predetermined operating modes, and assigning a value to the categorized operating mode where the value is a number that is a power of a predetermined base number.