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Gas Turbines
By: Claire SoaresImprint: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title
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No other current publication offers the professional engineer or technician the wealth of useful guidance on nearly every aspect of gas turbine design, installation, operation, maintenance and repair as this bookdoes. Gas Turbines makes the job of any engineer involved in the design, selection, operation and maintenance of most nearly any type of gas turbine more efficient and more successful. The book offers the reader a "big picture" view of how to make the right decisions when planning what type of gas turbine to use for a particular application, taking into consideration not only operational requirements but long-term life-cycle costs in upkeep and repair and future usage.
Concise overviews of all important theoretical bases in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics upon which gas turbine engines depend are presented. The author is an experienced industry consultant, with experience at such leading manufacturers of gas turbines as GE and Rolls Royce and relates how factors affect proper design, correct selection and specifications, and long-term successful operation for the application in question.. The book offers professional engineers hard-to-find manufacturer's data with extensive interpretation and explanation.
· Overview of major components, with a brief history of theory and development
· Important maintenance-related chapters
· Unique offering of manufacturer's specifications and performance criteria and future trends
· One-of-a-kind guidance on the economics and business management of turbine selection, as well as on installation and instrumentation/calibration
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| Title of Technology eBook: Gas Turbines | |
| Release Date: 12-05-2007 | |
| Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title |
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| Parent title | Gas Turbines |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9780080555843 |
| File size | 42493 |
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Gas Turbines
Chapter One
Gas Turbines: An Introduction and Applications "The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." —Winston Churchill
Contents Gas Turbines on Land 2 Direct Drive and Mechanical Drive 2 Applications Versatility with Land Based Gas Turbines 4 Aeroengine Gas Turbines 5 The Relations between Pressure, Volume, and Temperature 6 Changes in Velocity and Pressure 8 Airflow 8 Gas Turbines at Sea 11 Gas Turbines: Details of Individual Applications 12 Major Classes of Power Generation Application 12 Automotive Applications 17 Marine Applications 18 Aircraft Applications—Propulsion Requirements 23
The gas turbine is the most versatile item of turbomachinery today. It can be used in several different modes in critical industries such as power generation, oil and gas, process plants, aviation, as well domestic and smaller related industries.
A gas turbine essentially brings together air that it compresses in its compressor module, and fuel, which are then ignited. Resulting gases are expanded through a turbine. That turbine's shaft continues to rotate and drive the compressor which is on the same shaft, and operation continues. A separate starter unit is used to provide the first rotor motion, until the turbine's rotation is up to design sp
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