... Experimental Fluids Internal flow Component maintenance Component operations When mechanical seals are operating correctly, they leak by a very small amount. In order to reduce mean time between failure and achieve maximum seal life, the fluid should be clean, nonabrasive, and present at all times...

...://www.wmo.int/aemp/sites/default/files/RR_Volcanic_Ash_and_Gas_Turbine_Aero_Engines_Update.pdf Combustion Combustors Computational fluid dynamics Cooling Engines Environmental Modeling Multiphase flows Component maintenance Particulate Turbines Component operations The world's busy...

... FOR G AS T URBINES AND P OWER . Manuscript received July 6, 2017; final manuscript received August 22, 2017; published online January 17, 2018. Editor: David Wisler. 06 07 2017 22 08 2017 Aerodynamics Component maintenance Turbines Component operations Rising...

... Component maintenance Reliability Sensors Component operations The energy market demand sets high requirements to the productivity of gas turbine (GT) units, requiring high availability and efficiency levels to achieve cost effectiveness. Furthermore, the complexity of the units implies a high...

... 30 07 2017 Gas turbine technology Component maintenance Reliability Sensors Component operations As reported in the scheme in Fig. 1 , the ACA follows the ADA in the DCIDS tool. The aim of the ACA is to interpret the information regarding the anomalies collected by the ADA...

... received July 30, 2017; published online October 25, 2017. Editor: David Wisler. 14 07 2017 30 07 2017 Gas turbine technology Component maintenance Reliability Sensors Component operations Energy market demand sets high requirements to the productivity of gas turbine (GT...

...; published online October 3, 2017. Editor: David Wisler. 06 07 2017 11 07 2017 Design optimization Fluid control systems Gas turbine technology Natural gas technology Component maintenance Component operations There are two objectives for compressor control: meeting...

... manuscript received July 10, 2017; published online September 19, 2017. Editor: David Wisler. 19 06 2017 10 07 2017 Aerodynamics Component maintenance Power systems Component operations The typical centrifugal compressor performance map (head or pressure ratio versus flow...

...-shore platforms and cement factories that bring about particles that are particularly problematic for the gas turbines engines that power such facility. Aerospace applications Computational fluid dynamics Fouling Gas turbine technology Component maintenance Component operations 21...

... manuscript received May 21, 2017; published online June 21, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Liang Tang. 05 12 2016 21 05 2017 Aeronautical propulsion Aerospace applications Engines Heat transfer Natural convection Component maintenance Component operations Aerospace Propulsion systems...

... control Measurement techniques Component maintenance Sensors Combustion Component operations Gas turbine electrostatic monitoring technology, which employs electrostatic sensors to detect the debris in gas path, is an on-line health monitoring technique [ 1 ]. The principle of gas path...

... ,” 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences ( ICAS ), pp. 1–6. http://icas.org/ICAS_ARCHIVE/ICAS2014/data/papers/2014_0120_paper.pdf Fatigue Gas turbine technology Modeling Component maintenance Fracture prediction Component operations A gas turbine...

... Component maintenance Power Thermodynamics Co- generation Component operations One of the major challenges for gas turbine users is to ensure a high level of availability and reliability during the engine entire operating life, while maintaining efficient operation. For addressing...

...; final manuscript received July 13, 2016; published online October 4, 2016. Editor: David Wisler. 11 07 2016 13 07 2016 Fouling Gas turbine technology Component maintenance Particulate Component operations Fouling of compressor blades is an important mechanism leading...

... . Manuscript received June 28, 2016; final manuscript received July 12, 2016; published online September 27, 2016. Editor: David Wisler. 28 06 2016 12 07 2016 Measurement techniques Component maintenance Visualization Component operations The regeneration of jet engines...

... fault detection of hot components in gas turbines is particularly significant. Combustors Gas turbine technology Component maintenance Reliability Component operations 31 05 2016 17 06 2016 Contributed by the Aircraft Engine Committee of ASME for publication in the J...

... Component maintenance Reliability Component operations Given the degradation prediction, remaining useful life (RUL) can be calculated with respect to a predefined threshold (i.e., 0 for the health parameter). Figure 9 draws the RUL estimation result, which is then evaluated by the α–λ...

... Component operations Natural gas in pipeline is driven by compressor stations. Currently, there are two kinds of compressor stations: gas turbine driven stations and electric motor driven stations. Maintenance work of gas turbine driven station is more complicated due to the complexity of equipment...

... Thermodynamics Turbines Component operations A CCGT power plant, combining one or more gas top cycles with a water/steam bottoming cycle, is built to use the exhaust of the top cycle as the heat source for the bottoming cycle, thus extracting more useful energy from the heat to increase the plant...

... manuscript received August 30, 2015; published online October 27, 2015. Editor: David Wisler. 15 07 2015 30 08 2015 Experimental Friction Internal flow Component maintenance Turbines Component operations Wear In recent years, brush seals, a type of compliant contacting...