Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power: Recent submissions
Now showing items 4861-4880 of 9564
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Improved Discharge Measurement Using the Pressure-Time Method in a Hydropower Plant Curved Penstock
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)One of the basic flow rate measurement methods applied in hydropower plants and recommended by the International Standard IEC 60041–1999 and American National Standard ASME PTC 18–2002 is the ... -
Gas Turbine Aero-Engine First Stage Turbine Blade Failure Investigation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Plugging material in some of the film cooling channels of a failed aero-gas turbine engine first stage turbine blade is analyzed using the energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy in an environmental ... -
Design and Experiment of Oil Lubricated Five-Leaf Foil Bearing Test-Bed
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Multileaf foil bearing has various advantages including long-life, high-speed, low power loss, etc. Oil lubricated multileaf foil bearing compared with gas lubricated foil bearing is more favorable ... -
Air-Standard Aerothermodynamic Analysis of Gas Turbine Engines With Wave Rotor Combustion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The wave rotor combustor can significantly improve gas turbine engine performance by implementing constant-volume combustion. The periodically open and closed combustor complicates thermodynamic ... -
Sensor Thermal Barrier Coatings: Remote In Situ Condition Monitoring of EB-PVD Coatings at Elevated Temperatures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are used to reduce the actual working temperature of the high pressure turbine blade metal surface. Knowing the temperature of the surface of the TBC and at ... -
Combustion Characteristics of a Can Combustor With a Rotating Casing for an Innovative Micro Gas Turbine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A can type combustor with a rotating casing for an innovative micro gas turbine has been modeled, and the combustion characteristics were investigated. The simulations were performed using ... -
Thermodynamic Analysis and Comparison on Oxy-Fuel Power Generation Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)In this paper, pressurized oxy-fuel combustion power generation processes are modeled and analyzed based on a 350 MW subcritical reheat boiler associated with a condensing steam turbine. The ... -
Improving Performance of Refrigerant Cooled Steam Power Plant by Using Cooling Thermal Storage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)It is proposed in the current paper to combine the steam plant with two refrigeration cycles and a cooling storage container. Throughout the time of a day, the steam plant is made to work ... -
Combustion Oscillations in Bluff Body Stabilized Diffusion Flames With Variable Length Inlet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper describes the results of an experimental study to understand the influence of inlet flow disturbances on the dynamics of combustion process in bluff body stabilized diffusion flames ... -
Optimization of Controllers for Gas Turbine Based on Probabilistic Robustness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)An optimization method for controller parameters of a gas turbine based on probabilistic robustness was described in this paper. As is well known, gas turbines, like many other plants, are ... -
A Computational Model of the Mark-IV Electrorefiner: Phase I—Fuel Basket/Salt Interface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Spent driver fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II is currently being treated in the Mark-IV electrorefiner in the Fuel Conditioning Facility at Idaho National Laboratory. The modeling ... -
Ways to Increase Efficiency of the High-Temperature Gas Reactor Coupled With the Gas-Turbine Power Conversion Unit
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper deals with the issue of increasing efficiency of nuclear power plants with the modular high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR) and direct gas-turbine cycle. It should be noted that only ... -
Results of Tests to Demonstrate a 6-in.-Diameter Coater for Production of TRISO-Coated Particles for Advanced Gas Reactor Experiments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The next generation nuclear plant (NGNP)/advanced gas reactor (AGR) fuel development and qualification program includes a series of irradiation experiments in Idaho National Laboratory’s advanced ... -
Autonomous Control Strategies for Very High Temperature Reactor Based Systems for Hydrogen Production
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper is focused on feasible autonomous control strategies for Generation IV very high temperature reactors (VHTRs)-based systems for hydrogen production. Various burnable poison distributions ... -
Density Change of an Oxidized Nuclear Graphite by Acoustic Microscopy and Image Processing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The strong correlation between the density and the physical and mechanical properties of graphite suggests that the method of nondestructive density evaluation could be developed into a ... -
TRU-Fueled Very High Temperature Reactors for Applications Requiring an Extended Operation With Minimized Control and No Refueling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper presents an analysis of transuranium nuclide (TRU)-fueled very high temperature reactor (VHTR) systems focusing on applications requiring an extended operation with minimized control and ... -
Implications of Turbine Erosion for an Aero-Engine’s High-Pressure-Turbine Blade’s Low-Cycle-Fatigue Life-Consumption
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Some in-service deterioration in any mechanical device, such as a military aero-engine, is inevitable. As a result of experiencing any deterioration, an aero-engine will seek a different steady ... -
Experimental Study of the Shaft Motion in the Journal Bearing of a Gear Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The movement of the shaft of a driven gear in a gear pump is experimentally studied. Three different methods are considered, and the use of a laser micrometer measurement method is validated. ... -
A Method to Evaluate Fission Gas Release During Irradiation Testing of Spherical Fuel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The evaluation of fission gas release from spherical fuel during irradiation testing is critical to understand expected fuel performance under real reactor conditions. Online measurements of krypton ... -
Proposal of a Novel Multifunctional Energy System for Cogeneration of Coke, Hydrogen, and Power
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper proposes a novel multifunctional energy system (MES), which cogenerates coke, hydrogen, and power, through the use of coal and coke oven gas (COG). In this system, a new type of ...