Gas Turbine Handbook Principles and Practice
This fourth edition of Gas Turbine Handbook Principles and Practice a bestseller provides a fundamental understanding of the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The book explores the full spectrum of gas turbine hardware, typical application scenarios, and operating parameters, controls, inlet treatments, inspection, troubleshooting, and also more. It includes a new chapter on gas turbine acoustics and noise control and an expanded section on the use of inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. The author emphasizes strategies that help readers avoid problems before they occur and includes tips on how to diagnose problems in their early stages and also analyze failures to prevent their recurrence.
Gas Turbine Handbook Principles and Practice 4th edition provides detail information on the centrifugal compressor similar to that provided on the axial compressor. Considerably more sketches (or compressor maps referred to in this text) employed to give the reader a better understanding of the compression process and the parameters that impact that process. While knowledge of thermodynamics provides the foundation for understanding compression theory it is not essential to the appreciation of how various parameters influence the compression process.
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Gas Turbine Handbook Principles and Practice Product Details
- Hardcover: 450 pages
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- Publisher: CRC Press; 4 edition (February 11, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439801916
- ISBN-13: 978-1439801918
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Early flight engine pioneers used the centrifugal design because tooling and manufacturing capability was not sufficiently developed to produce the axial components. The approach of the microturbine designer is to minimize cost (through use of existing hardware and higher rotor speeds). That this is accomplished is apparent when we see that microturbines utilize existing gas turbines and turbocharger components. These components are the turbo-expander and also the centrifugal compressor.
The 4th edition also includes recent pictures of the components used on inlet fogger systems (Chapter 8, Gas Turbine Inlet Treatment) in a power augmentation application.
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