A method to determine the economic cost of gas turbine compressor fouling was developed. The method is based on the calculation of the influence of the drop of compressor performances (isentropic efficiency, pressure ratio and air mass flow) on Heat Rate and full load power of the gas turbine. A statistical procedure to quantify the drop of compressor performances with fouling and to obtain amb...

Gas turbine engine efficiency can be increased by the improvements of the cooling air system. In this study, gas turbine preswirl cooling system is computationally analyzed using a validated three-dimensional quasi-steady model. In the first phase of the study, the system is analyzed with respect to different operating conditions, for understanding its behavior. In this part, the dependence of ...

In this study, operation of compressor station has been investigated by exergy approach. Exergy analysis is a thermodynamic method which shows the irreversibility of a system quantitatively. Gas compressors are used to compensate the pressure drop along the gas pipeline significantly. The compression process causes temperature rise of gas; in this regard gas cooler is applied to reduce the temp...

The off-design performance of a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant for power generation is of great importance. In this work, a detailed mathematical model is developed for a triple-pressure reheat combined cycle power plant. Using the model, CCGT off-design operation and efficiency are studied under four gas turbine (GT) strategies. Controlling the turbine inlet temperature (TIT) gives be...

This paper summarises the work of a 5-year research programme into the heat transfer within cavities adjacent to the main annulus of a gas turbine. The work has been a collaboration between several gas turbine manufacturers, also involving a number of universities working together. The principal objective of the study has been to develop and validate computer modelling methods of the cooling fl...

Many practical applications, such as the fuel control of a gas turbine engine, can be modeled by a feedback connection of a linear controller in series with a Hammerstein system, where the nonlinearity provides a representation of the control element or actuator. An iterative gradient-based method is proposed to simultaneously identify the nonlinear fuel valve characteristic and a low-order lin...

Performance of a gas turbine is mainly depends on the inlet air temperature. The power output of a gas turbine depends on the mass flow rate of air. Now days the atmosphere temperature is hot, so the air is less density, the mass flow rate will reduce and automatically the power output will reduce. A reduce of 1°C temperature of inlet air increases the power output by approximately 0.7MW. To re...

マイク ロガスター ビン ・固体酸化物形燃料電池 ハ イブ リッ ドシステムの部分負荷特性の評価* 君 島 真 仁*1, 笠 木 伸 英*2 Performance Evaluation of Micro Gas Turbine-Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Hybrid System under Part-Load Conditions Shinji KIMIJIMA*3 and Nobuhide KASAGI *3 Department of Machinery and Control Systems, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 307 Fukasaku, Minuma-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama, 337-8570 Japan Design-point and part-load characteri...

The Burlington, Vermont gasifier is the first commercial scale demonstration of Future Energy Resources SilvaGas biomass gasification process. The gasification plant is the largest operation of its type in the United States. The Burlington plant is coupled to the McNeil station of the Burlington Electric Department and is being used to evaluate and demonstrate the gasification technology both a...

Degradation Prognostics in Gas Turbine Engines Using Neural Networks