Power enhancement technologies for gas turbines such as inlet fogging, interstage water injection, saturation cooling, inlet chillers, and combustor injection are being used by end users without evaluating the potentially negative effects these devices may have on the operational integrity of the gas turbine. Specifically, the effect of these add-on devices, off-design operating conditions, non...

Combustion chambers of micro gas-turbines are generally operated under very lean global air-fuel ratios for two main reasons: to constrain the production pollutants (NOx), and cool-down metal walls with cooling air. The abundancy oxygen contained in air flowing over surfaces, together high temperatures due combustion, constitute an oxidizing environment. thin oxide layer can crack alternating s...

Introduction Gasifying biomass to produce a combustible gas provides the possibility for much more efficient overall conversion of a given biomass resource into electric power than is possible with traditional combustion-based technologies. In particular, gasified biomass can be used to power internal combustion engines (ICEs), gas turbines, and fuel cells, all of which are able to produce elec...

The cycles of the steam-injection gas-turbine systems are studied. The analyses of the parametric effects and the optimal operating conditions for the steam-injection gas-turbine (STIG) system and the regenerative steam-injection gas-turbine (RSTIG) system are investigated to ensure the maximum performance. Using the analytic model, the performance parameters of the system such as thermal effic...

MIT is developing micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based gas turbine engines, turbogenerators, and rocket engines. Fabricated in large numbers in parallel using semiconductor manufacturing techniques, these engines-on-a-chip are based on micro-high speed rotating machinery with power densities approaching those of their more familiar, full-sized brethren. The micro-gas turbine is a 2 cm ...