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...

Aircraft engines constitute a comp‌lex system, requiring adequate mon-itoring to ensure flight safety and timely maintenance. The best way to achieve this, is modeling the engine. Therefore, in this paper, a suitable mathematical model from engine controller design point of view, for a specific aero turbine engine is proposed by the aid of MATLAB/Simulink software. The model is capable of reduc...

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...

The OpenSky ADS-B/Mode-S databases have been fully integrated into a computational model that is used to estimate aircraft and rotorcraft engine emissions. This paper demonstrates the basis for method generalisation wide class of types. First, we use mathematical operations (filters machine learning) clean up data generate first-order derivatives. Then, “fly” these trajectories using ancillary ...

The aeroderivate gas turbines are widely used for power generation in the oil and gas industry. In offshore marine platforms, the aeroderivative gas turbines provide the energy required to drive mechanically compressors, pumps and electric generators. Therefore, the study of the performance of aeroderivate gas turbines based on a parametric analysis is relevant to carry out a diagnostic of the ...

Superalloys are a class of materials that possess stable microstructures at elevated temperatures due to the presence of coherent L12 ordered γ’ precipitates spatially aligned along elastically soft directions in a face centered cubic (FCC) γ matrix [1]. Nickel-base superalloys are used in a variety of applications such as in turbine blades of aircraft engines and land-based turbine engine [1]....