Patent ID: 8015826

Claim:
A turbine engine assembly for a generator, the assembly comprising: a turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section, the combustor section having a primary zone temperature and the turbine engine having a design load; at least one air bleed line in communication with the compressor section; at least one valve for controlling air flow through the at least one air bleed line; a plurality of inlet guide vanes in the compressor section; a controller that upon sensing a decreased operating load first closes the inlet guide vanes and then, in parallel, opens the at least one valve to allow bleed air to flow through the at least one air bleed line and opens the inlet guide vanes to increase compressor inlet flow when an operating load is less than the design load, wherein a flow rate through the at least one air bleed line is increased and compressor inlet flow is increased as the operating load is decreased thereby reducing power delivered to the generator while maintaining the primary zone temperature above a primary zone temperature lower limit, whereby additional inlet flow drawn into the compressor section is dumped out through the bleed line.