Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, 2003 — 171 p. The influence of freestream turbulence representative of the flow downstream of a modern gas turbine combustor and first stage vane on turbine blade heat transfer has been measured and analytically modeled in a linear, transonic turbine cascade. Measurements were performed on a high turning, transonic...
ASME, New York, USA, 2003. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-7918-0192-6. This book provides a thorough description of an aerodynamic design and analysis systems for Axial-Flow Compressors. It describes the basic fluid dynamic and thermodynamic principles, empirical models and numerical methods used for the full range of procedures and analytical tools that an engineer needs for virtually any...
ASME Press, New York, 2005. — 404 p. — ISBN13: 978-0791802410. This book provides a thorough description of actual, working aerodynamic design and analysis systems, for both axial-flow and radial-flow turbines. It describes the basic fluid dynamic and thermodynamic principles, empirical models and numerical methods used for the full range of procedures and analytical tools that...
Bachmann Rolf, Nielsen Henrik, Warner Judy, Kehlhofer Rolf, Kehlhofer Rolf 2nd edition. — Tusla, Okla. PennWell, 1997. — 388 p. This book is a good overview of the combined cycle process. It saves the equations for the end of the book and spends most of the text discussing concepts. The case studies at the end of the book are particularly interesting. The section on Integrated...
GE Energy, Atlanta, GA, 2010. — 60 p. Maintenance costs and availability are two of the most important concerns to a heavy-duty gas turbine equipment owner. Therefore, a well thought out maintenance program that optimizes the owner’s costs and maximizes equipment availability should be instituted. For this maintenance program to be effective, owners should develop a general...
Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht, 2013. VIII, 69 p. 32 illus. — ISBN: 978-1-4471-4859-3, ISBN: 978-1-4471-4860-9 (eBook) — (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology). Presents the methodology, calculation procedures and tools used to support enterprise planning for adapting power stations to dual-fuel gas-steam combined-cycle technologies Analyzes the...
InTech, 2011 p. 526 p. ISBN: 9789533076119. Gas turbine engines will still represent a key technology in the next 20-year energy scenarios, either in stand-alone applications or in combination with other power generation equipment. This book intends in fact to provide an updated picture as well as a perspective vision of some of the major improvements that characterize the gas...
Second Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2009. 433 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-164100-5 Steam Turbines shows how to select, improve, operate, and maintain high-quality mechanical drive steam turbines-with maximum efficiency and minimum downtime. This new Second Edition offers authoritative information on the operating characteristics, design features, reliability, and maintenance of all steam...
Third edition. Gulf professional publishing, 2006. 955 p. — ISBN: 0-88415-732-6. The gas turbine is a power plant that produces a great amount of energy for its size and weight and thus has found increasing service in the past 20 years in the petrochemical industry and utilities throughout the world. The gas turbine's compactness, weight, and multiple fuel applications make it...
Second Edition. — Gulf Professional Publishing, 2002. 799 p. — ISBN: 0884157326. The gas turbine is a power plant that produces a great amount of energy for its size and weight and thus has found increasing service in the past 20 years in the petrochemical industry and utilities throughout the world. The gas turbine's compactness, weight, and multiple fuel applications make it...
4th Edition. — Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, 2012. XXXIV, 956 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-383842-1. Key Features The most comprehensive one-stop source of information on industrial gas turbines, with vital background, maintenance information, legislative details and calculations combined in an essential all-in-one reference Written by an industry-leading consultant and trainer and...
Elsevier, 2016. — 97 p. Natural gas is the second most important fossil fuel for generating electricity after coal. Its exploitation as an energy source for electrical power generation dates from the early part of the 20th century. However it was in the latter part of the century that capacity accelerated alongside the development of efficient gas turbine-based power stations....
Camden Miniature Steam Services, 2003. 40 p. — ISBN: 0-9536523-2-7. Nikola Tesla is famous for the Tesla Coil, but another of his inventions is the subject of this book and had nothing to do with electricity, other than as a possible means of generating it. This was his Disc Turbine for which a British Patent, which also covered a compressor variant, was granted in 1910. Unlike...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020. — 545 p. This book covers the design, analysis, and optimization of the cleanest, most efficient fossil fuel-fired electric power generation technology at present and in the foreseeable future. The book contains a wealth of first principles-based calculation methods comprising key formulae, charts, rules of thumb, and other tools developed by the...
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011. X, 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61470-610-6 (eBook). Comprehensive Techno-Economic Evaluation of Gas Turbine Repowering Systems for Utilizing Waste Heat from a Small Scale Refuse Incineration Plant Pyong Sik Pak In-Service Degradation of Gas Turbine Nozzles and Moving Blades Zdzislaw Mazur, Alejandro Hernández-Rossette, Alberto Luna-Ramírez, Rafael...
Pergamon Press, 1975. — 111 p. This book is a companion volume to Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery, Second Edition (FMTT2) and is primarily concerned with the detailed solutions of the unworked problems set in that volume.
Second Edition Revised and Expanded. — USA, New York, Marcel Dekker INC, 2003 — 905 p. The original intent of this book — to serve as a reference work in turbomachinery for practicing engineers and graduate students — remains unchanged in this new edition. In this edition the Introduction has been expanded to include new material on the mechanical and thermal design...
Engineering Encyclopedia. — Engineering Encyclopedia. Saudi Aramco, 143 p. The design of major gas turbine components has evolved over the last fifty years into machines with high reliability and availability in addition to increased output. In order to achieve these advances, all of the major gas turbine systems and components have been analyzed and designed to ensure the...
McGraw-Hill. 2005. — 549 p. Condensed extracts from selected chapters of “Gas Turbines: A Handbook of Land, Sea and Air Applications” by Claire Soares, publisher Butterworth Heinemann, BH, (for release information see www.bh.com). The gas turbine is the most versatile item of turbomachinery today. It can be used in several different modes in critical industries such as power...
IDC Technologies, This manual gives a solid review of gas turbines with a focus on fundamental thermodynamics; gas turbine components; materials of construction; bearing, seals and lubrication systems; fuels and fuel supply systems; combustion air filters; control systems and instrumentation and operations and maintenance.
General electric company, 1984. — 421 p. Operation of the combustion ges turbine, es of any rotating power equipment, must include a planned progr am of periodic inspection, with aeoompenying repair and replacement of parts as necessary, to ensure the maximum availability and rellability of the unit. The object of this Maintenanee Section is threefold: 1. To aid the user in...
GE Oil & Gas, 1631 Bently Parkway South, Minden, 2015. — 48 p. A gas turbine is an internal combustion rotary engine that converts fuel into mechanical output power to drive equipment such as electric generators, pumps, and compressors. Gas turbines are widely used in the power generation and the oil and gas industry in production, midstream and downstream applications. A...
5th Edition. — The Fairmont Press, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2014. — XVI, 507 p. — ISBN10: 0-88173-712-7 (The Fairmont Press, Inc.); ISBN13: 978-1-4822-2888-5 (Taylor & Francis Ltd.). Newly revised, this new fifth edition includes a chapter on waste heat recovery and discusses this technology in detail including a the advantages and barriers to waste heat recovery, environmental...
David J. Gingery Publishing LLC, 2004. 48 p. — ISBN: 1878087290. Travel back in time and experience the excitement of the era by building your very own model Tesla Turbine. Read along as Tesla describes in his own words the principles and incredible capabilities of his turbine. Examine the original Turbine patent descriptions and drawings for yourself and gain an even greater...
Gas machinery research council. Southwest Research Institute, 2010 - 122 p. Inlet air filtration systems are essential on any gas turbine. Filtration systems have evolved from simple coarse solid particulate removal systems to complex systems that remove both solid and liquid particles. The development of filtration systems has progressed because gas turbines have become...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 736 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-41665-8. In this essential reference, both students and practitioners in the field will find an accessible discussion of electric power generation with gas turbine power plants, using quantitative and qualitative tools. Beginning with a basic discussion of thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles from a second law...
CRC Press, 1997. 464 p. — SBN 0-8247-9829-5 (hardcover: acid-free paper). This festschrift in honor of Professor Budugur Lakshminarayana's 60th birthday-based on the proceedings of a symposium on Turbomachinery Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer held recently at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park-provides authoritative and conclusive research results as well as...
Second Edition. — CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. — XVII, 843 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4665-6490-9 (eBook - PDF). A comprehensive reference for engineers and researchers, Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology, Second Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect advances in the field made during the past ten years. The second edition retains the...
AvE4EvA, 2015. 167 p. — ISBN10: 953-51-1743-2, ISBN13: 978-953-51-1743-8. This book presents current research in the area of gas turbines for different applications. It is a highly useful book providing a variety of topics ranging from basic understanding about the materials and coatings selection, designing and modeling of gas turbines to advanced technologies for their ever...
GE Energy. Iraq. 2005. — 587. p. Gas Turbine Overview. MS9001EA Gas Turbine Construction. Advanced Gas Turbine Materials and Coatings. Piping Reference Drawings. Oil Systems. Turbine Systems. Heavy Duty GT Operation and Maintenance. MS9001EA Inspection and Maintenance Instructions. MS9001EA Inspection and Maintenance.
PennWell Corporation, 2005. — 505 p. — ISBN: 1-59370-032-6. As traditional fossil fuels are depleted and world demand for power increases, nuclear-generated electricity has a strong future. This volume by a world-renowned scientist should be a must-read for all nuclear power plant personnel. With the widespread deployment of wet-steam turbines at nuclear power plants worldwide,...
The Fairmont Press, Inc., CRC Press, 2007. 537 p. — ISBN: 0881735485. This book presents the newest approaches to design and operation of new steam turbines, along with modern techniques for refurbishment of aging units, for fossil fuel power plants. Recent engineering breakthroughs have led to potential increases in power plant efficiency, deriving both from qualitative...
International Association of Engineering Insurers 38th Annual Conference – Moscow, 2005 — 46 p/ Steam turbines provide a means of converting saturated, superheated, or supercritical steam from boilers or heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) into rotational torque and power. Consequently steam turbines are utilized to drive a variety of equipment types of numerous sizes and...
Cranfield University, 2007. — 227 p. This work presents a model of the fouling mechanism and the evaluation of compressor washing on line. The results of this research were obtained from experimental and computational models. The experimental model analyzed the localization of the particle deposition on the blade surface and the change of the surface roughness condition. The...
Elsevier UK, 2015. — 155 p. Squirrel-cage fans are strange. Precious electricity produced by gas and steam turbines is lost to the very inefficient forward-curved fans of the heating and ventilating industry. The research studies on gas and steam turbines are expensive and very competitive worldwide. On the contrary, forward-curved squirrel-cage fans are cheap and simple to...
CRC Press, 2018. — 327 p. This book is an outgrowth of several years of teaching an undergraduate course on turbomachinery at the University of Portland. It provides an introduction to the subject and is suitable as a single-semester course for seniors and first-year graduate students in disciplines such as mechanical, aerospace, petroleum, and chemical engineering. The...
Scrivener Publishing, Beverly, MA. 2016 — 323 p. If you operate steam turbines in your plant you are probably asking: Why do I need a whole book devoted to steam turbine operations? Th e short answer is because we all want our steam turbines to operate reliably and safely during their lifetimes and to avoid nasty surprises, such as massive failures, unexpected outages or...
The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005. – 554 p. ISBN: 0-07-146704-1 This book is written to meet the needs of students in engineering colleges and practicing engineers in a large variety of industries where turbo-machines are used. All the material has been specifically tailored for college undergraduate and graduate level design engineering and vibration of rotating machine courses....
CRC Press, 2007. 624 p. — ISBN: 1845692055. Industrial gas turbines: Performance and operability explains important aspects of gas turbine performance such as performance deterioration, service life and engine emissions. Traditionally, gas turbine performance has been taught from a design perspective with insufficient attention paid to the operational issues of a specific site....
PennWell, 2001. — 576 p. — ISBN: 0-87814-787-X; ISBN13: 978-0-87814-787-8. William P. Saunders, prominent expert in the field of steam turbines, brings the information and expertise of his seminars to this long-awaited practical approach to steam turbine maintenance and repair. This authoritative guide affords anyone seeking information on turbine steam path maintenance and...
Zürich, 2003 — 239 p. This work presents the results of detailed unsteady flow measurements in a rotating two stage shrouded axial turbine. The turbine was built at the Laboratory of Turbomachinery at the ETH Zurich as part of this thesis. The design, the rig engineering and the manufacturing of the turbine was one significant task of this work. The resulting very precise...
2nd edition. — USA, Wiley, The Ohio State University, 2019. — 592 p. Turbomachines are important machines in our industrial civilization. Steam turbines are used to generate electricity at central station power plants, whether fueled by coal or uranium. Gas turbines and axial compressors are found in jet engines. Aero-derivative gas turbines are used to generate electricity...
Training Manual, Cakerawala Platform, 103 p There are many different types of turbines in use in the world today. Some forms are old, like the Waterwheel (hydraulic turbine) and Windmill. Others are of more recent origin, Steam Turbines date from the 19th century while Gas Turbines date from the 20th century. Gas Turbines were originally conceived as a means of aircraft...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 376 p. — (Cambridge Aerospace Series). — ISBN: 978-1-107-17009-4. This long-awaited, physics-first and design-oriented text describes and explains the underlying flow and heat transfer theory of secondary air systems. An applications-oriented focus throughout the book provides the reader with robust solution techniques, state-of-the-art...
InTech, 2012. 246 p. — ISBN: 9535104643, 9789535104643. The open exchange of scientific results and ideas will hopefully lead to improved reliability of gas turbines. A wide range of issues related to analysis of gas turbines and their engineering applications are considered in the book. Analytical and experimental methods are employed to identify failures and quantify...
2nd edition. — Blackwell Science Ltd, Malden, MA. 2004 — 657 p. Performance is the end product that a gas turbine company sells. Furthermore, it is the thread which sews all other gas turbine technologies together. Gas turbine performance may be summarised as: The thrust or shaft power delivered for a given fuel flow, life, weight, emissions, engine diameter and cost. This must...
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, 2002. — 842 p. Turbomachines, which comprise turbines, compressors and fans, are used in electricpower generation, aircraft propulsion and a wide variety of medium and heavy industries.The importance of this class of machines can be understood by the examples of2000 MW steam turbines, turbojet engines, etc.This book is a self-contained...
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