Calculation of the Choked Back Pressure for Steam Turbines with Air Cooled Condensers

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...

Imaging at Rye Patch 3 Enhancement Strategies for Air - Cooled Condensers 4 BNL

In an effort to tap the vast geothermal resources of the western United States, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada recently announced a DOE initiative to expand the production and use of energy generated from heat within the earth. The new initiative is known as GeoPowering the West. During a news conference on Capitol Hill, Secretary Richardson also annou...

Steam Turbines for Biomass Plants

Wind tunnel simulation on re-circulation of air-cooled condensers of a power plant

The criteria as well as the methods and measurements of wind tunnel simulation on wind effects on air-cooled condensers in a power plant were discussed. The parameter of recirculation was suggested to describe the wind effects on the efficiency of the condenser. The result of practical project models shows that great wind effects of both wind speed and the angle of the incident flow on the effi...

Avoiding Stressed-Out Steam Turbines

assembly, Pro/ENGINEER CAD geometry was imported into ANSYS Mechanical software and meshed using SOLID185 elements. Frictionless surface-tosurface contact pairs with augmented Lagrangian algorithms were created between mating surfaces. A matching node pattern was maintained at the root and slot pressure faces, where load transfers take place between the two components. As an in-house design pra...