Scope of the analysis presented in this work was the improvement in the design of a microturbine for dental applications. The initial choice was an impulse turbine operating in subsonic regime with air as working fluid and a behavior similar to Turgo turbines. The work was performed in several stages: the first step focused on documentation of these turbines, followed by a dimensional study bas...

Turbulent wake of wind turbine will reduce the power output of wind farm. The access to real turbulent wake of wind turbine blades with different spatial and temporal scales is provided by the pulsed Coherent Doppler Lidar (CDL) which operates by transmitting a laser beam and detecting the radiation backscattered by atmospheric aerosol particles. In this paper, the authors discuss the possibili...

1. Abstract Gas turbine engines for aerospace applications have evolved dramatically over the last 50 years through the constant pursuit for better specific fuel consumption, higher thrust-to-weight ratio, lower noise and emissions all while maintaining reliability and affordability. This paper addresses one facet of this inter-disciplinary optimization problem – optimal design of a turbine bla...

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of relative rotation direction on the wake interferences among two tandemwind turbines models. While the oncoming flow conditions were kept in constant during the experiments, turbine power outputs, wind loads acting on the turbines, and wake characteristics behind the turbines were compared quantitatively with turbine models in eit...

In this study, effects of lacing rods location on natural frequencies of last stage of a Steam Turbine Blades (STBs) have been investigated. STBs are critical and important elements in a turbine as well as power plants. One of the most important parameters in turbine blades is lacing rods location. In this paper, first, a three dimensional (3D) scan was used to produce the geometrical model of ...

A permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) variable speed wind turbine connected to an electrolyzer and a battery model system is presented in this paper. Hydrogen gas could be produced from the model system, when a variable wind speed is applied to the PMSG driven variable wind turbine. The simulation results presented shows the nature of some of the variables of the PMSG wind driven turb...

In Pelton turbine, the energy carried by water is converted into kinetic energy by providing nozzle at the end of penstock. The shape of jet affects the force and torque on the bucket and runner of turbine. The nozzle of circular cross section is commonly used. In this paper attempt has been made to study the effect of four different jet shapes on the flow and torque characteristics of Pelton t...

This paper presents a terminal voltage control of a wind turbine Self Excited Induction Generator (SEIG). The wind turbine induction generator system is proposed to supply an isolated static load under widely varying conditions. The terminal voltage had been regulated by adapting the value of the excitation capacitance from Static VAR Compensator (SVC) using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) cont...

In this work, multiple model control of a boiler-turbine system is studied. Multiple linear local models are obtained through piecewise linearization. A bank of Kalman filters is constructed using these local models. States and model parameters used for future predictions within the predictive control are updated online through computation of probability density functions. Simulations show that...