Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power: Recent submissions
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Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a Novel Venturi Lean Premixed Prevaporized (LPP) Combustor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)A new gas turbine engine using a unique layout patented in Norway has a low-emission combustion system under development. The gas generator uses entirely radial rotating components and employs ... -
The Effect of Fuel/Air Mixing on Actuation Authority in an Active Combustion Instability Control System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)The authority of an active combustion instability control system was improved by increasing the degree of mixing between a modulated gaseous fuel source and the remainder of the premixed reactants ... -
A High-Temperature Catalytic Combustor With Starting Burner
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)A catalytic combustion system has high potential to achieve low NOx emission level. When this combustion system is applied to a gas turbine, the required combustor performance must be maintained ... -
Field Demonstration of a 1.5 MW Industrial Gas Turbine With a Low Emissions Catalytic Combustion System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)An electric utility grid connected test facility has been established at Silicon Valley Power (SVP) in Santa Clara, California to validate the reliability, availability, maintainability, and ... -
Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Evaporation of Shear-Driven Multicomponent Liquid Wall Films
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)The presented work is concerned with two-phase flows similar to those in prefilming airblast atomizers and combustors employing film vaporization. Correlations for the multicomponent mixture ... -
An International Electronic and Interactive Teaching and Life-Long Learning Platform for Gas Turbine Technology in the 21st Century
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)An interactive learning platform which sets a new standard for electronic learning of gas turbine technology in a global life-long learning perspective is presented (Fig. 1). The platform contains ... -
Rapid Liquid Fuel Mixing for Lean-Burning Combustors: Low-Power Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)Designers of advanced gas turbine combustors are considering lean direct injection strategies to achieve low NOx emission levels. In the present study, the performance of a multipoint radial ... -
The Potential Impact of Utilizing Advanced Engine Technology for a Combat Capable Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)This paper evaluates the potential impact of utilizing advanced engine technology for a limited life, combat capable, unmanned air vehicle (UAV) application. A study was conducted to define ... -
Performance Benefit Assessment of Ceramic Components in an MS9001FA Gas Turbine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)The introduction of a ceramic gas turbine component in commercial power generation service will require significant effort. A careful assessment of the power plant performance benefit achievable ... -
Update on the Progress of the Brazilian Wood BIG-GT Demonstration Project
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)Biomass integrated gasification-gas turbine (BIG-GT) technology offers the opportunity for efficient and environmentally sound power generation from biomass fuels. Since biomass is “carbon-neutral” ... -
Demonstration of Fluidic Throat Skewing for Thrust Vectoring in Structurally Fixed Nozzles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)The experimental demonstration of a fluidic, multiaxis thrust vectoring (MATV) scheme is presented for a structurally fixed, afterburning nozzle referred to as the conformal fluidic nozzle (CFN). ... -
Chemical Vapor Deposition of TBC: An Alternative Process for Gas Turbine Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)This paper deals with the development of a new process for the deposition of thermal barrier coatings (TBC) based on chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The research program started in September ... -
Friction Damper Optimization: Simulation of Rainbow Tests
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)Friction dampers have been used to reduce turbine blade vibration levels for a considerable period of time. However, optimal design of these dampers has been quite difficult due both to a ... -
A Nonlinear, Transient, Single-Cylinder Diesel Engine Simulation for Predictions of Instantaneous Engine Speed and Torque
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)A non-linear, transient, single-cylinder diesel engine simulation has been developed for predictions of instantaneous engine speed and torque. The foundation of our model is a physically based, ... -
Underplatform Dampers for Turbine Blades: Theoretical Modeling, Analysis, and Comparison With Experimental Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)This paper describes a theoretical model for analyzing the dynamic characteristics of wedge-shaped underplatform dampers for turbine blades, with the objective that this model can be used to ... -
Mirror Gas Turbines: A Newly Proposed Method of Exhaust Heat Recovery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)A new conceptual combination of Brayton and inverted Brayton cycles with a heat sink by intercooling, which is dubbed the mirror gas turbine, has been evaluated and proposed in this paper. ... -
Rotordynamic Force Prediction of Whirling Centrifugal Impeller Shroud Passages Using Computational Fluid Dynamic Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)The demand for higher efficiencies and performance of modern centrifugal turbomachinery requires improved knowledge of critical design factors in strength of materials, aerodynamics, and rotordynamics. ... -
The Methodology of Stochastic Optimization of Parameters and Control Laws for the Aircraft Gas-Turbine Engines Flow Passage Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)Till now a wide class of aircraft GTE optimization problems has been solved with the help of deterministic approach and it has been quite enough. GTE was considered as ideal system. Strictly ... -
Experimental Investigation of Mode Localization and Forced Response Amplitude Magnification for a Mistuned Bladed Disk
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)The results of an experimental investigation on the effects of random blade mistuning on the forced dynamic response of bladed disks are reported. The primary aim of the experiment is to gain ... -
Limitations on Gas Turbine Performance Imposed by Large Turbine Cooling Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)Calculations of the performance of modern gas turbines usually include allowance for cooling air flow rate; assumptions are made for the amount of the cooling air bled from the compressor, as ...