🔍 Key Concepts

• Trace the fuel flow path in Section B of the illustration from the fuel supply up to the bypass regulator and then to the engine fuel manifold. • Focus on the component actually labeled Bypass Regulator – this is the device that controls/limits the service pressure to the engine. • Think about a realistic service pressure for a marine gas turbine fuel supply line (before the nozzles), and which of the four values is most typical for that part of the system.

💭 Think About

• Which component in the diagram is responsible for maintaining a nearly constant fuel pressure upstream of the metering and control devices? • Looking at typical light‑fuel systems, which choice would be high enough to ensure good atomization and control, but not so high that it would only be found inside the very high‑pressure injector circuit? • If you rule out the value that seems too low for a turbine and the one that seems more like injector‑tip pressure, which of the remaining values best fits a regulated service pressure?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify that you are reading the pressure before the metering valve and combustion nozzles, not the final injection pressure at the nozzles. • Confirm that the bypass regulator in the illustration is the device setting this pressure and that it returns excess fuel back to the pump inlet or a low‑pressure line. • Double‑check that the selected value is a realistic service system pressure for a marine gas turbine, not for a diesel common‑rail or nozzle tip pressure.