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Increasing concerns about energy and emissions from fuel consumption in gas turbines has attracted many researchers to protect the environment and reduce pollutants in the world. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the increasing efficiency of three-stroke gas turbine operation based on the technical analysis of the operation of three-axis gas turbine cycles with non-design condi...

In this paper, lean blow-out limits in a double swirl GT model combustor were investigated experimentally for liquid petroleum gas fuel. The curve was extracted different configurations. While burner could operate reasonably under ultra-lean conditions, two sets of operating one with low flow rate and another high rate, are identified studied terms pollutant. Results showed that while the flame...

This paper reports a comparative study of burning Thai rice husk, sunflower shells and fine rubberwood sawdust as well as co-firing of the sawdust and shredded eucalyptus bark in the swirling fluidizedbed combustor (SFBC). All experiments for firing individual fuels were performed for the combustor heat input of ∼300 kWth. However, in the co-firing tests, the fuel mixture was delivered at a fix...