GAS TURBINE ENGINES CONSUMING BIOGAS

Millimeter-scale, Mems Gas Turbine Engines

The confluence of market demand for greatly improved compact power sources for portable electronics with the rapidly expanding capability of micromachining technology has made feasible the development of gas turbines in the millimeter-size range. With airfoil spans measured in 100’s of microns rather than meters, these “microengines” have about 1 millionth the air flow of large gas turbines and...

Prognosis of Faults in Gas Turbine Engines

A problem of interest to aircraft engine maintainers is the automatic detection, classification, and prediction (or prognosis) of potential critical component failures in gas turbine engines. Automatic monitoring offers the promise of substantially reducing the cost of repair and replacement of defective parts, and may even result in saving lives. Current processing for prognostic health monito...

Anomaly Detection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines

Symbolic identification for fault detection in aircraft gas turbine engines

This article presents a robust and computationally inexpensive technique of component-level fault detection in aircraft gas-turbine engines. The underlying algorithm is based on a recently developed statistical pattern recognition tool, symbolic dynamic filtering (SDF), that is built upon symbolization of sensor time series data. Fault detection involves abstraction of a language-theoretic desc...

Advanced Thermal Barrier Coatings for Industrial Gas Turbine Engines

Executive Summary 3 Thermal barrier coating (TBC) ceramic topcoats made from Y 2 O 3-stabilized ZrO 2 (YSZ) have been used successfully in gas-turbine engine applications for more than 30 years. YSZ derives its favorable performance from a combination of properties that include low thermal conductivity, high thermal expansion coefficient, and phase stability to relatively high temperatures. Wit...