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Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook
By: Meherwan P. BoyceImprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
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The Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook has been the standard for engineers involved in the design, selection, and operation of gas turbines. This revision includes new case histories, the latest techniques, and new designs to comply with recently passed legislation. By keeping the book up to date with new, emerging topics, Boyce ensures that this book will remain the standard and most widely used book in this field.
The new Third Edition of the Gas Turbine Engineering Hand Book updates the book to cover the new generation of Advanced gas Turbines. It examines the benefit and some of the major problems that have been encountered by these new turbines. The book keeps abreast of the environmental changes and the industries answer to these new regulations. A new chapter on case histories has been added to enable the engineer in the field to keep abreast of problems that are being encountered and the solutions that have resulted in solving them.
* Comprehensive treatment of Gas Turbines from Design to Operation and Maintenance. In depth treatment of Compressors with emphasis on surge, rotating stall, and choke; Combustors with emphasis on Dry Low NOx Combustors; and Turbines with emphasis on Metallurgy and new cooling schemes. An excellent introductory book for the student and field engineers
* A special maintenance section dealing with the advanced gas turbines, and special diagnostic charts have been provided that will enable the reader to troubleshoot problems he encounters in the field.
* The third edition consists of many Case Histories of Gas Turbine problems. This should enable the field engineer to avoid some of these same generic problems.
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| Title of eBook: Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook | |
| Release Date: 04-28-2006 | |
| Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing |
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Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook
Chapter One
An Overview of Gas Turbines
The gas turbine is a power plant, which produces a great amount of energy for its size and weight. The gas turbine has found increasing service in the past 40 years in the power industry both among utilities and merchant plants as well as the petrochemical industry, and utilities throughout the world. Its compactness, low weight, and multiple fuel application make it a natural power plant for offshore platforms. Today there are gas turbines, which run on natural gas, diesel fuel, naphtha, methane, crude, low-Btu gases, vaporized fuel oils, and biomass gases.
The last 20 years has seen a large growth in Gas Turbine Technology. The growth is spearheaded by the growth of materials technology, new coatings, and new cooling schemes. This, with the conjunction of increase in compressor pressure ratio, has increased the gas turbine thermal efficiency from about 15% to over 45%.
Table 1-1 gives an economic comparison of various generation technologies from the initial cost of such systems to the operating costs of these systems. Because distributed generation is very site specific the cost will vary and the justification of installation of these types of systems will also vary. Sites for distributed generation vary from large metropolitan areas to the slopes of the Himalayan mountain range. The economics of power generation depend on the fuel cost, running efficiencies, maintenance cost, and first cost, in that order. Site selection depends on environmental concerns such as emissions, and noise, fuel availability, and size and weight.
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