The regenerator glass-ceramic is produced as a honeycomb product for a turbine engine heat exchanger. It is made from a powdered glass frit, which as a slurry can impregnate paper that is wound as alternately corrugated sheets on a wheel. After firing, a porous ceramic regenerator wheel is produced that allows energy to be transferred from hot exhaust gases to the cold intake air in the turbine...

the winD inDustry has experienceD a rapid expansion. As wind farms are aging, their operations and maintenance issues are gaining in significance. The wind industry has been affected by failures of wind turbine components such as main bearings, gearboxes, and generators. Replacement of failed components results in the high cost in energy production. Therefore, research in fault identification a...

Abstract—There is a gap at combustor-turbine interface where leakage flow comes out to prevent hot gas ingestion into the gas turbine nozzle platform. The leakage flow protects the nozzle endwall surface from the hot gas coming from combustor exit. For controlling flow’s stream, the gap’s geometry is transformed by changing fillet radius size. During the operation, step configuration is occurre...

in the course of expansion in turbines steam nucleates to become a two-phase mixture, the liquid consisting of a very large number of extremely small droplets carried by the vapor. formation and subsequent behaviour of the liquid lowers the performance of turbine wet stages. the calculations were carried out assuming that the flow is two dimensional, compressible, turbulent and viscous. a class...

With large expansion plans for the offshore wind turbine industry there has never been a greater need for effective operations and maintenance. The two main problems with the current operations and maintenance of an offshore wind turbine are the cost and availability. In this work a simulation model has been produced of the maintenance process for a wind turbine with the aim of developing a pro...

To investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of an Archimedes spiral wind turbine for urban-usage, both experimental and numerical studies were carried out. The Archimedes spiral blade was designed to produce wind power using drag and lift forces on the blade together. Instantaneous velocity fields were measured by two-dimensional PIV method in the near field of the blade. Mean velocity profi...

Turbo-expander is the most crucial and expensive component in Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power generation systems. The turbine engineering, design and research development process for ORC system is costly, time-consuming, and difficult for new-entrants in the ORC field. This paper investigates the re-design and retrofit of an off-the-shelf turbocharger for use in a 1 kW ORC system. The expande...

Natural gas is currently the natural substitute of petroleum as an energy source, since the foreseen ending up of this latter in the next decades. As a matter of fact, natural gas is easier to handle, less dangerous to be transported, somehow environmentally more friendly. The gas ducts operate with large flow rates over very long distances at high pressures, which are usually lowered in proxim...

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