Simple Gas Turbine (GT)
March 12th, 2009 Posted in energy sources, fossil fuels and energy, gas turbines, power generation
The file (525 KB) will cover the following topics:
Gas Turbines and Combined Cycle Power Plants
- 130 BC – Hero of Alexandria’s reaction steam turbine
- 1550 – Leonardo da Vinci’s “smoke mill”
- 1629 – Giovanni Branca’s impulse steam turbine
- 1791 – John Barber’s patent for steam turbine – “gas was produced from heated coal, mixed with air, compressed and then burnt to produce a high speed jet that impinged on radial blades on a turbine wheel rim”.
Topics – Simple Gas Turbines
- Gas Turbines, Its Uses and History
- Aero-Derivative Gas Turbine Developments
- Operating Principle of a Gas Turbine
- Ideal & Non-Ideal Brayton Cycle, Its Efficiency
- Effects of Varying Compression Ratio
- Modifications to Improve Efficiency
- Gas Turbine Fuels
- Gas Turbine Technologies
- Advantages, Disadvantages of GT
- Environmental Impact, Risks of GT
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