scholarly journals Compressor configuration and design optimization for the high reliability gas turbine. Final report

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Day
Keyword(s):  
Design Optimization ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Final Report

scholarly journals High-reliability gas turbine combined-cycle development program. Phase I. Final report

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Strong ◽  
D. J. Amos ◽  
K. H. Eagle ◽  
G. L. Francois
Keyword(s):  
Phase I ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Final Report

A New Concept of High-Performance Marine Reversing Reduction Gears

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-577
Author(s):  
D. J. Folenta
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Mechanical Efficiency ◽  
Gas Turbine Engine ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Epicyclic Gear ◽  
Gear Technology

This paper presents a brief description and several illustrations of a new concept of marine reversing gears that utilize high-performance differentially driven epicyclic gear arrangements. This new marine power transmission has the potential to offer high reliability, simplicity, light weight, high mechanical efficiency, compactness, and technological compatibility with aircraft derivative marine gas turbine engines. Further, this new reversing gear minimizes the danger of driving the free turbine in reverse as might be the case with conventional parallel shaft reversing gear arrangements. To illustrate the weight reduction potential, a modern naval ship propulsion system utilizing an aircraft derivative gas turbine engine as the prime mover in conjunction with a conventional parallel shaft reversing gear can be compared to the subject reversing gear differential. A typical 18,642 kW (25,000 hp) marine gas turbine engine might weigh approximately 5000 kg (11,000 lb) and a conventional marine technology parallel shaft reversing gear might weigh on the order of 90,000 to 136,000 kg (200,000 to 300,000 lb). Using gear technology derived from the aircraft industry, a functionally similar differentially driven marine reversing gear might weigh approximately 13,600 kg (30,000 lb).

Numerical Simulation of Gas Flow and Heat Transfer in Cross-Wavy Primary Surface Channel for Microtubine Recuperators

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. X. Liang ◽  
Q. W. Wang ◽  
L. Q. Luo ◽  
Z. P. Feng
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
The Cross

Three-dimensional numerical simulation was conducted to investigate the flow field and heat transfer performance of the Cross-Wavy Primary Surface (CWPS) recuperators for microturbines. Using high-effective compact recuperators to achieve high thermal efficiency is one of the key techniques in the development of microturbine in recent years. Recuperators need to have minimum volume and weight, high reliability and durability. Most important of all, they need to have high thermal-effectiveness and low pressure-losses so that the gas turbine system can achieve high thermal performances. These requirements have attracted some research efforts in designing and implementing low-cost and compact recuperators for gas turbine engines recently. One of the promising techniques to achieve this goal is the so-called primary surface channels with small hydraulic dimensions. In this paper, we conducted a three-dimensional numerical study of flow and heat transfer for the Cross-Wavy Primary Surface (CWPS) channels with two different geometries. In the CWPS configurations the secondary flow is created by means of curved and interrupted surfaces, which may disturb the thermal boundary layers and thus improve the thermal performances of the channels. To facilitate comparison, we chose the identical hydraulic diameters for the above four CWPS channels. Since our experiments on real recuperators showed that the Reynolds number ranges from 150 to 500 under the operating conditions, we implemented all the simulations under laminar flow situations. By analyzing the correlations of Nusselt numbers and friction factors vs. Reynolds numbers of the four CWPS channels, we found that the CWPS channels have superior and comprehensive thermal performance with high compactness, i.e., high heat transfer area to volume ratio, indicating excellent commercialized application in the compact recuperators.

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