In order to carry out experimental investigations on radial inflow gas turbine, a special test laboratory was designed and constructed at Sharif University of Technology. This laboratory is introduced in the present paper and experimental procedures are elaborated on. Then, some test results are presented and discussed. The trends of performance characterisitics match our expectation and show g...

In order to carry out experimental investigations on radial inflow gas turbine, a special test laboratory was designed and constructed at Sharif University of Technology. This laboratory is introduced in the present paper and experimental procedures are elaborated on. Then, some test results are presented and discussed. The trends of performance characterisitics match our expectation and show g...

The article contains the results of validation of the numerical computational models of the uncooled turbines of gas turbine plants created in the software suite NUMECA. The findings of the study of impact of the computational mesh dimension, account of the pre-path cavities on the design characteristics of turbines by modeling are represented in this article. As a result, there have been devel...

Intelligent engine condition monitoring and early fault detection is becoming a necessity for modern gas turbines to achieve availability and reliability requirements. Degradation or failure of critical control components, such as the fuel metering valves, negatively affects both reliability and safety. Modelbased approaches for analytics and condition monitoring show great promise with advance...

the paper is devoted to solution of some problems in nuclear power station generating unit intellectual control systems using genetic algorithms on the basis of control system model development, optimizations methods of their direct quality indices and improved integral quadratic estimates. some mathematical vector models were obtained for control system multicriterion quality indices with due ...

Power generation using gas turbine power plants operating on the Brayton cycle suffers from low efficiencies. In this work, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is proposed for integration into a 10 MW gas turbine power plant, operating at 30% efficiency. The SOFC system utilizes four heat exchangers for heat recovery from both the turbine outlet and the fuel cell outlet to ensure a sufficiently high...

A new mechanism responsible for structural life consumption due to resonant fatigue in turbine blades, or vanes, is presented and explained. A rotating blade or vane in a gas turbine can change its contour due to erosion and/or material build up, in any of these instances, the surface pressure distribution occurring on the suction and pressure sides of blades-vanes can suffer substantial modifi...

Helium gas turbine is the key component of the power conversion system for direct cycle High Temperature Gascooled Reactors (HTGR), of which an optimal design is essential for high efficiency. Gas turbine design currently is a multidisciplinary process in which the relationships between constraints, objective functions and variables are very noisy. Due to the ever-increasing complexity of the p...

Gas turbines are increasingly spread throughout the world to provide mechanical and electrical power in consumer and industrial sections. To ensure an accurate control process temperature of gas turbine with no extortionary operator involvement, a proper controller is required. Load frequency control of gas turbine is also regulates the power flow between different areas while holding the frequ...