Industrial Gas Turbines: Performance and Operability
Industrial Gas Turbines: Performance and Operability initially covers the theory of gas turbine performance from a design and off-design point of view, including transient analysis, and gives much detail on these two very important aspects of engine performance. The latter part of the book revisits the earlier chapters, using the simulators to highlight in detail the issues facing industrial gas turbines in the real world. The simulators are effectively virtual engines with respect to performance, deterioration, emissions, control, and life usage.
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Industrial Gas Turbines: Performance and Operability Content
- Foreword
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- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note about the CD-ROM accompanying this book
- CD-ROM: copyright information and terms of use
- Abbreviations and notation
- Introduction
- Part 1 Principles of gas turbine performance
- Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles
- Complex gas turbine cycle
- Compressors
- Axial turbines
- Gas turbine combustion
- Off-design performance prediction
- Behaviour of gas turbines during off-design operation
- Gas turbine performance deterioration
- Part 2 Simulating the performance of a two-shaft gas turbine
- Simulating the effects of ambient temperature on engine performance, emissions and turbine life usage
- the effect of change in ambient pressure on engine performance
- Simulating the effects of engine component deterioration on engine performance
- Power augmentation
- Simulation of engine control system performance
- Part 3 Simulating the performance of a single-shaft gas turbine
- Simulating the effects of ambient temperature on engine performance, emissions and turbine life usage
- the effect of change in ambient pressure on engine performance
- Simulating the effects of engine component deterioration on engine performance
- Power augmentation
- Simulation of engine control system performance
- Simulation exercises
- Appendix: Steady flow energy equation and stagnation properties
- Index
Improving gas turbine performance involves the bringing together and optimization of the disciplines and skills required to achieve an operationally competitive gas turbine engine. Certainly, the design and performance of individual engine components, such as the compressors, combustors and turbine, could alone present an engineer with a worthwhile career. It is, however, the overall performance of the gas turbine that the customer actually purchases.
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