In this paper, the statistical analyses are presented to study the thermal efficiency and power output of gas turbine (GT) power plants. For analyzing gas turbine operation and performance, a novel approach is developed utilizing the response surface methodology (RSM) which is based on the central composite design (CCD) method. An attempt is made to study the effect of some operational factors ...

Conical Rotary Compressor (CRC) is a screw type Positive Displacement Machine (PDM) consisting of one inner rotor rotating inside an outer rotor. The conical internal meshing rotors with the feature variable pitch and profile have inherent capability to operation at high pressure ratio due built-in volume low leakage. CRC has potential run in various applications such as Heating, Ventilation, A...

The effect of a regenerative heat exchanger in a gas turbine is analyzed using a regenerative Brayton cycle model, where all fluid friction losses in the compressor is quantified by an isentropic efficiency term and all global irreversibilities in the heat exchanger are taken into account by means of an effective efficiency. This analysis, which generalizes that reported by Gordon and Huleihil ...

This paper reports density and speed of sound data for solutions of the ionic liquids (ILs) [C4mim]Cl and [C4mim][CF3SO3] in aqueous solution of 0.05 w/w amino acids of alanine, serine and proline at T = (288.15, 298.15, 308.15 and 318.15) K. From the experimental data measured, the apparent molar volume (Vϕ), isentropic compressibility ( ), and apparent molar isentropic compression ( ) have be...

In this paper, we construct spherically symmetric solutions of the equations of compressible flow, which are important in the theory of explosion waves in air, water, and other media. Following McVittie [1], we write a general solution form, in terms of velocity potential, as a product of a function of time and a function of a similarity variable. First, we find solutions to the equations of mo...

We study the asymptotic behavior of compressible isentropic flow through porous medium with general L∞ initial data. The model system is the compressible Euler equation with frictional damping. As t → ∞, the density is conjectured to obey to the well-known porous medium equation and the momentum is expected to be formulated by Darcy’s law. Recent progress gives a definte answer to this conjectu...

In this paper, we study the steady solutions of Euler-Poisson equations in bounded domains with prescribed angular velocity. This models a rotating Newtonian star consisting of a compressible perfect fluid with given equation of state P = eSργ . When the domain is a ball and the angular velocity is constant, we obtain both existence and non-existence theorems, depending on the adiabatic gas con...

It is seen how to write the standard form of the four partial differential equations in four unknowns of anisotropic thermoelasticity as a single equation in one variable, in terms of isothermal and isentropic wave operators. This equation, of diffusive type, is of the eighth order in the space derivatives and seventh order in the time derivatives and so is parabolic in character. After having ...

Conventional Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) using ambient air as their coolant cannot fully utilize the greater temperature differential available to them during the colder months. However, changing the working fluid composition so its boiling temperature matches the ambient temperature as it changes has been shown to have potential to increase year-round electricity generation. Previous researc...