Gas turbines incur a loss of output power during hot seasons due to high ambient air temperatures, and input air cooling systems are often used to partly offset this problem. Here, results are reported for an investigation of the utilization of a heat pump to cool the inlet air of a gas turbine compressor. The analyses are carried out for two climates: the city of Yazd, Iran, which has a hot, a...

For analysis of the flow field of torque converter’s start operating performance, the paper established a mathematical model and simulated the numerical value of YJ series hydrodynamic torque converter. In view of the partial impact fluid and cavitation phenomenon in processes such as multiple flow area coupling algorithms the sliding mesh method cannot achieve the flow parameters real-time tra...

Hydropower plants may be required to operate in synchronous condenser mode in order to supply reactive power to the grid for compensating the fluctuations introduced by the intermittent renewable energies such wind and solar. When operating in this mode, the tail water in the Francis turbine or pump-turbine is depressed below the runner by injecting pressurized air in order to spin in air to re...