This paper presents a survey of engine health monitoring systems for commercial aircraft. The state of practice is explored first, with the purpose of identifying the shortcomings of current systems. The state of the research to address these shortcomings is them surveyed to explore the alternatives. Research and monitoring applications for various other types of engines provide a good basis fo...

The wind industry has had a chronic problem with the reliability of its gearboxes [1], [2]. Experience has shown that premature gearbox failure is a leading maintenance cost driver that can easily consume the profit margin from a wind turbine operation. Condition monitoring is already understood to have potential to mitigate this risk by managing gearbox maintenance through the promises of reli...

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...

On the influence of fuel sulfur induced stable negative ion formation on the total concentration of ions emitted by an aircraft gas turbine engine: comparison of model and experiment A. Sorokin 2, , F. Arnold, and P. Mirabel Atmospheric Physics Division, MPIK, P.O. Box 103980, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany CGS of the Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS 1, rue Blessig, F-67084 Strasbourg, France Per...

A novelty detection approach to condition monitoring of aerospace gas-turbine engines is presented, providing a consistent framework for onand off-line analysis, each with differing typical implementation constraints. On-line techniques are introduced for observing abnormality in engine behaviour during aircraft flights, and are shown to provide early warning of engine events in real-time. Off-...

Because of its unique properties, beryllium has become widely used in a variety of industrial applications, including inertial guidance systems, turbine rotor blades, laser tubes, rocket engine liners, springs, aircraft brakes and landing gear, ball bearings, injection and blow mold tooling, electrical contacts, automotive electronics, X-ray tube windows, spark plugs, electrical components, cer...

In the article there was presented a quality assessment of parameters selection of bypass turbine engine for a multipurpose aircraft. It was assumed that the assessment criterion results from the energy-consumption of a flight. The criteria of energy-consumption range were defined as the relation of sum of energy supplied to the aircraft on the driven stages to the distance during a mission. Th...

In the Modern scenario, the naturally available resources for power generation are being depleted at an alarming rate; firstly due to wastage of power at consumer end, secondly due to inefficiency of various power system components. A Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) integrates two cycles- Brayton cycle (Gas Turbine) and Rankine cycle (Steam Turbine) with the objective of increasing overall pl...