Gas turbine inlet fogging and overspray (high-fogging) have been considered the most cost-effective means of boosting a gas turbine’s total power output, especially under hot or dry weather conditions. The result of employing fogging or overspray is indisputably clear − total power output is increased; however, development of the theory and explanation of the phenomena associated with fogging a...

A fuzzy system is developed using a linearized performance model of the gas turbine engine for performing gas turbine fault isolation from noisy measurements. By using a priori information about measurement uncertainties and through design variable linking, the design of the fuzzy system is posed as an optimization problem with low number of design variables which can be solved using the geneti...

SumTime-Turbine produces textual summaries of archived timeseries data from gas turbines. These summaries should help experts understand large data sets that cannot be visually presented in a single graphical display. SumTime-Turbine is based on pattern detection, knowledge-based temporal abstraction (KBTA), and natural language generation (NLG) technology. A prototype version of the system has...

This paper shows an improvisation for gas turbine power plants. It incorporates a hydraulic compressor to compress air prior to combustion. The aim is to reduce in-house consumption of the power generated in the turbine, thus increasing the overall efficiency of the power plant. The proposed compressor could also be used in different scenarios.

This paper presents fuzzy logic control of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) wind turbine in a sample power system. DFIG consists of a common induction generator with slip ring and a partial scale power electronic converter. Fuzzy logic controller is applied to rotor side converter for active power control and voltage regulation of wind turbine. Wind turbine and its control unit are describ...

The efficiency test is an important indicator to evaluate the energy conversion performance of a hydraulic turbine. For hydropower stations which do not have the direct flow measurement conditions, whether the characteristic curve of a turbine obtained through similarity theory conversion by using the comprehensive characteristic curve of the turbine can correctly reflect the operating performa...

Determination of the starter torque-speed diagram is a major task in the design or selection of a proper gas turbine starter. In this paper, the maximum power of the MGT-40 gas turbine starter was calculated based on the dynamics of the rotor, start-up logic, and compressor map. In a recent research, the pressure ratio was assumed as a linear function of the rotor speed and the required sta...