Provided is a controller for use with a gas
turbine engine, which ensures a stable
combustion regardless of the deterioration of the catalyst and elevated characteristics of the
exhaust gas. The controller 6 is used in the engine which comprises a
combustor 2 for combusting a mixture of
compressed air from a compressor 1 and a fuel under the existence of catalyst, the
combustor having a
catalytic combustion unit 21 bearing the catalyst and a pre-burner 7 provided on an upstream side of the
catalytic combustion unit with respect to a flow of the
compressed air for supplying and combusting a pre-heating fuel PF with the
compressed air CA. The controller comprises a memory 6c for memorizing an initial
temperature difference D between inlet and outlet temperatures t1, t2 measured at inlet and outlet of the
catalytic combustion unit with non-deteriorated catalyst accommodated therein, and a pre-burner control for calculating a present
temperature difference between the inlet and outlet temperatures measured in an operation of the gas
turbine engine and controlling an amount of the fuel to be supplied to the pre-burner according to a deterioration Δd of the catalyst which is provided by a difference between the initial and present temperature differences D and d.