A Pressurized Air Receiver for Solar-driven Gas Turbines

Optimization the Efficiency of Gas Turbines for Air Pollution Reduction

Increasing concerns about energy and emissions from fuel consumption in gas turbines has attracted many researchers to protect the environment and reduce pollutants in the world. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the increasing efficiency of three-stroke gas turbine operation based on the technical analysis of the operation of three-axis gas turbine cycles with non-design condi...

Data - Driven Models for Reliability Prognostics of Gas Turbines

This thesis develops three data-driven models of a commercially operating gas turbine, and applies inference techniques for reliability prognostics. The models focus on capturing feature signals (continuous state) and operating modes (discrete state) that are representative of the remaining useful life of the solid welded rotor. The first model derives its structure from a non-Bayesian parametr...

An Air-Based Cavity-Receiver for Solar Trough Concentrators

A cylindrical cavity-receiver containing a tubular absorber that uses air as the heat transfer fluid is proposed for a novel solar trough concentrator design. A numerical heat transfer model is developed to determine the receiver’s absorption efficiency and pumping power requirement. The 2D steady-state energy conservation equation coupling radiation, convection and conduction heat transfer is ...

Ultra Micro Gas Turbines

Multidiscipinary Optimization For Gas Turbines Design

State-of-the-art aeronautic Low Pressure gas Turbines (LPTs) are already characterized by high quality standards, thus they offer very narrow margins of improvement. Typical design process starts with a Concept Design (CD) phase, defined using mean-line 1D and other loworder tools, and evolves through a Preliminary Design (PD) phase, which allows the geometric definition in details. In this fra...