The Application of Ceramics to the Small Gas Turbine
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This paper reviews the limitations today’s superalloys exercise on the realization of the potential of the gas turbine engine. Ceramic materials are suggested as a means of achieving lower cost and higher turbine inlet temperature in small gas turbine engines. The paper serves to introduce ceramic materials and processing techniques and identifies silicon nitride, silicon carbide and lithium-alumina-silicate as promising materials for high temperature turbine engine components.
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2016 ◽
Vol 18
(1)
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pp. 393-398
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