Industrial Gas Turbines Performance and Operability

This important new book provides operators of industrial gas turbines with a review of the principles of gas turbine operation and how they can be used to predict and improve turbine performance. The book is accompanied by a CD that allows readers to simulate aspects of performance such as emissions, changes in pressure, and power augmentation. The author covers the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles as well as simulation of gas turbine performance, emissions, and turbine life assessment for single- and double-shaft gas turbines. Three useful appendices supply convenient tables for stagnation temperatures and pressures along with a simulator user’s guide and various simulation exercises.

Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. Complex gas turbine cycle. Compressors. Axial turbines. Gas turbine combustion. Off-design performance prediction. Behavior of gas turbines during off desing operation. Gas turbine performance deterioration. Principles of engine control systems. Simulation of gas turbine performance, emissions and turbine life assessment (two-shaft gas turbine). Simulating the effect of change in ambient pressure on engine performance. Simulating the effects of engine deterioration on engine performance. Power augmentation. Simulation of engine control system performance. Simulation of gas turbine performance, emissions and turbine life assessment (single-shaft gas turbine). Simulating the effects of ambient pressure on engine performance. Simulating the effect of performance deterioration on engine performance. Power augmentation. Simulation of control system performance. Appendix A: Stagnation temperatures and pressures. Appendix B: Simulator user guide. Appendix C: Simulation exercises.