Proposed Gas Turbine Procurement Standard: Preparation for Shipment and Installation

Author(s):  
J. O. Stephens ◽  
James Tremante

This paper, one of a series (see Appendix), deals with preparation by the manufacturer of the gas turbine, components, and accessories for domestic or overseas shipment. Further, it endeavors to point out some critical areas requiring serious attention prior to installation and operation of gas-turbine systems.

Author(s):  
Samir Rida ◽  
Robert Reynolds ◽  
Saugata Chakravorty ◽  
Kapil Gupta

A practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach to modeling effusion orifices in gas turbine combustor liners is proposed specifically when liner metal geometry is not included and conjugate heat transfer is not invoked. The focus is on eliminating effusion orifices from the model while maintaining the imprint of the orifices on the cold and hot sides of the liner wall. The imprinted boundaries serve as embedded mass flow inlets and outlets on both sides of the wall and maintain the integrity of the wall geometry. An empirical model is then used to extract and inject mass from the cold and hot sides of the liner, respectively. The mass extraction and injection process is performed for each orifice based on local conditions such as pressure, temperature and discharge coefficient. The discharge coefficient is, in turn, dynamically computed for each orifice based on approach angle, approach Mach number, discharge Mach number and orifice length to diameter ratio. With this approach, the fidelity of the liner wall is preserved for better heat transfer predictions and easier near wall meshing. In addition, the discharge coefficient is not assumed but calculated allowing the redeployment of inherently inadequate effusion orifice mesh cells to other critical areas of the combustor. Presented are results of two combustor cases to demonstrate the practicality and accuracy of the proposed method as compared to standard effusion modeling and their comparison with rig data.


Author(s):  
O. Schneider ◽  
F.-K. Benra ◽  
H. J. Dohmen ◽  
K. Jarzombek

With the increase of cooling air passing through the internal air system of modern gas turbines, a greater number of airborne particles is transported to the film cooling holes in the turbine blade surface. In spite of their small size, these holes are critical for airflow and must be free of blockage. A test rig has been designed to study the quantity of separated particles at various critical areas of the internal air system. Former publications for this conference gave detailed insight into the test rig, the flow structure and the particle motion during separation. The process of separation generates abrasion on the rotating and stationary parts of the system. When considering service and maintenance or even unexpected operation faults of the gas turbine, it is important to know the location and abrasion rate of these critical areas. The flow structure within the pre-swirl cooling air system results in locally focused abrasion regions, which are investigated in this paper. New simulations, taking additional physical effects into account, are discussed in the paper. The simulation results are compared to results obtained by measurements and observations within the test rig. Qualitative and quantitative results show the ability to predict the quantity of abrasion during operation on various critical areas of the system.


Author(s):  
Benjamin M. Siegel

The potential advantages of high voltage electron microscopy for extending the limits of resolution and contrast in imaging low contrast objects, such as biomolecular specimens, is very great. The results of computations will be presented showing that at accelerating voltages of 500-1000 kV it should be possible to achieve spacial resolutions of 1 to 1.5 Å and using phase contrast imaging achieve adequate image contrast to observe single atoms of low atomic number.The practical problems associated with the design and utilization of the high voltage instrument are, optimistically, within the range of competence of the state of the art. However, there are some extremely important and critical areas to be systematically investigated before we have achieved this competence. The basic electron optics of the column required is well understood, but before the full potential of an instrument capable of resolutions of better than 1.5 Å are realized some very careful development work will be required. Of great importance for the actual achievement of high resolution with a high voltage electron microscope is the fundamental limitation set by the characteristics of the high voltage electron beam that can be obtained from the accelerator column.


1906 ◽  
Vol 61 (1569supp) ◽  
pp. 25137-25138
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1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 576-582
Author(s):  
A R Pomeroy

SummaryThe limitations of currently used in vitro assays of heparin have demonstrated the need for an in vivo method suitable for routine use.The in vivo method which is described in this paper uses, for each heparin preparation, four groups of five mice which are injected intravenously with heparin according to a “2 and 2 dose assay” procedure. The method is relatively rapid, requiring 3 to 4 hours to test five heparin preparations against a standard preparation of heparin. Levels of accuracy and precision acceptable for the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia are obtained by combining the results of 3 to 4 assays of a heparin preparation.The similarity of results obtained the in vivo method and the in vitro method of the British Pharmacopoeia for heparin preparations of lung and mucosal origin validates this in vivo method and, conversely, demonstrates that the in vitro method of the British Pharmacopoeia gives a reliable estimation of the in vivo activity of heparin.


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