Gas Turbine Combustion Consulting
Design, troubleshooting, and emissions compliance for DLN/DLE combustion systems, from engineers who spent their careers inside GE combustors.
Combustion problems rarely announce themselves politely. They show up as a dynamics alarm at 3 a.m., a NOx exceedance letter from the regulator, or a unit that trips on lean blowout every time the grid asks it to turn down. By the time we get the call, someone has usually already tried the obvious fixes.
That is the work we do. ProReadyEngineer's combustion practice is led by Dr. Bassam Abdelnabi, a Ph.D. aerospace engineer with over a decade leading combustion R&D at GE Aerospace and GE Global Research, alongside John Battaglioli, who holds multiple patents in Dry Low NOx combustion and 45 years of power and aviation experience. We have designed combustors, broken them in test cells, certified them, and tuned them in the field.
Because we also build and commission high-pressure combustion test facilities and develop physics-grounded analytics, we can take a problem from first measurement to verified fix without handing it between three different vendors.
Capabilities
DLN/DLE combustion system design, tuning, and troubleshooting
Combustion dynamics diagnosis and mitigation, from sensing to hardware changes
Lean blowout margin assessment and operability mapping
Hydrogen and flex-fuel conversion: H2 blends, syngas, and liquid fuels including crude oil
Emissions mapping campaigns: experimental design, execution, and digital-twin-driven tuning
NOx and CO compliance work, from root cause to verified fix
CFD and conjugate heat transfer analysis of combustor hardware
Combustor test rig design and test campaign planning
Combustion problems we have solved
Common questions
Which combustion systems do you work on?
Industrial gas turbines and aeroderivatives, with deep experience in Dry Low NOx (DLN) and Dry Low Emissions (DLE) systems. Our team includes engineers who designed and patented DLN hardware at GE, and we have worked across GE frames including 6B, 7EA, 9E, 7FA, and 9FA as well as aviation combustors.
Can you help us burn hydrogen in an existing combustor?
Yes. We assess flashback and flameholding risk, flame position shift, dynamics, and NOx behavior for H2 blends up to 100%, then define the hardware and control changes needed. We have hands-on experience with hydrogen, syngas, and liquid fuels including crude oil.
Do you run emissions mapping in the field?
Yes. We design the test matrix, run the mapping campaign, and use digital twin models to tune the engine against its compliance limits. We also teach this as a 5-day course, Gas Turbine Emissions Mapping.
How does an engagement usually start?
With a focused technical call. You describe the problem and constraints; we tell you honestly whether we can help, what we would do first, and what it costs. No long discovery phase before you hear anything useful.
Tell us what your combustor is doing
Dynamics, blowout, emissions, fuel flexibility: describe the symptom and we will tell you what we would check first.