scholarly journals Aero-Thermal Design and Testing of Advanced Turbine Blades

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Haendler ◽  
D. Raake ◽  
M. Scheurlen
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Design Procedure ◽  
Thermal Design ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Optical Pyrometer ◽  
Electrical Systems ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Improved Performance

Based on the experience gained with more than 80 machines operating worldwide in 50 and 60 Hz electrical systems respectively, Siemens has developed a new generation of advanced gas turbines which yield substantially improved performance at a higher output level. This “3A-Series” comprises three gas turbine models ranging from 70 MW to 240 MW for 50 Hz and 60 Hz power generation applications. The first of the new advanced gas turbines with 170 MW and 3600 rpm was tested in the Berlin factory test facility under the full range of operation conditions. It was equipped with various measurement systems to monitor pressures, gas and metal temperatures, clearances, strains, vibrations and exhaust emissions. This paper presents the aero-thermal design procedure of the highly thermal loaded film cooled first stage blading. The predictions are compared with the extensive optical pyrometer measurements taken at the Siemens test facility on the V84.3A machine under full load conditions. The pyrometer was inserted at several locations in the turbine and radially moved giving a complete surface temperature information of the first stage vanes and blades.

Shop Test Result of the V64.3 Gas Turbine

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jansen ◽  
T. Schulenberg ◽  
D. Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Engine Performance ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Fuel Oil ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Gas Temperature ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Exhaust Gas Temperature

The V64.3 60-MW combustion turbine is the first of a new generation of high-temperature gas turbines, designed for 50 and 60 Hz simple cycle, combined cycle, and cogeneration applications. The prototype engine was tested in 1990 in the Berlin factories under the full range of operation conditions. It was equipped with various measurement systems to monitor pressures, gas and metal temperatures, clearances, strains, vibrations, and exhaust emissions. The paper describes the engine design, the test facility and instrumentation, and the engine performance. Results are given for turbine blade temperatures, compressor and turbine vibrations, exhaust gas temperature, and NOx emissions for combustion of natural gas and fuel oil.

scholarly journals Shop Test Result of V64.3 Gas Turbine

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jansen ◽  
T. Schulenberg ◽  
D. Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Engine Performance ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Fuel Oil ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Gas Temperature ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Exhaust Gas Temperature

The V64.3 60MW combustion turbine is the first of a new generation of high temperature gas turbines, designed for 50 and 60Hz simple cycle, combined cycle and cogeneration applications. The prototype engine was tested in 1990 in the Berlin factories under the full range of operation conditions. It was equipped with various measurement systems to monitor pressures, gas and metal temperatures, clearences, strains, vibrations, and exhaust emissions. The paper describes the engine design, the test facility and instrumentation, and the engine performance. Results are given for turbine blade temperatures, compressor and turbine vibrations, exhaust gas temperature, and NOx emissions for combustion of natural gas and fuel oil.

scholarly journals The GT24/26 Low Pressure Turbine

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian K. Jennions ◽  
Thomas Sommer ◽  
Bernhard Weigand ◽  
Manfred Aigner
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Thermal Design ◽  
Component Technology ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
3D Analysis ◽  
Leakage Flows ◽  
Low Pressure Turbine ◽  
Point Data ◽  
Lp Turbine

The GT24 and GT26 are the latest in a series of gas turbines from ABB. The GT24 is a 60 Hz, 183 MW turbine, while the GT26 is its (scaled) 50 Hz equivalent, producing 265 MW. They feature a 22 stage controlled diffusion aerofoil compressor, two combustors separated by a single stage high pressure turbine with a four stage low pressure (LP) turbine following the second combustor. This arrangement permits very high efficiencies while avoiding high temperatures and the need to use new, expensive materials. The first GT24 was delivered to Jersey Central Power and Light, Gilbert, New Jersey, USA, at the end of 1995 and achieved baseload operation in May 1996. The engine was highly instrumented with some 1200 measurement points to evaluate component performance. Subsequently, a through-flow datamatch to the design point data was made for the LP turbine and is compared to a full 3D multistage analysis in this paper. The 3D analysis accounts for all the cooling and leakage flows that enter the turbine flowpath and maintains a steady flow calculation by means of interface planes between each blade row that remove any circumferential non-uniformity from the computational flow field. To complement this aerodynamic analysis, some heat transfer results from the ABB GT26 test facility in Birr, Switzerland are also shown. The paper demonstrates how component technology for the first stage was verified at four universities and research centers concurrently with the design process. This experimental data supplemented the existing databases and engendered confidence in the overall aero/thermal design approach.

Computer-Aided Dimensioning and Validation of a Versatile Test Facility for Combustion Chambers and Turbines

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitgeb ◽  
Fabrice Giuliani ◽  
Andreas Niederhammer ◽  
Hermann-Peter Pirker
Keyword(s):  
Mass Flow ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Compressor Station ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Air Supply ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Air System ◽  
Core Concepts

The continuous flow test facility at Graz University of Technology was originally designed for cold sub- and transonic experimental research on different turbine stages (2001-GT-0489). The operation range of the facility was recently extended to hot flows for investigations on the behavior of high-temperature resistant sensors embedded in gas-turbines and analysis of cooling systems of turbine blades or multiple-burner combustors, where each air supply is driven separately. Therefore, a 5 MW thermal air heater has been connected to the institute’s 3 MW compressor station. The dimensioning of the air system was done with IPSE-pro which is a commercial software package for simulation of basic thermodynamic processes. The standard modules of IPSE-pro were modified for calculating the mass flow distributions with respect to the prevailing pressure drops. As the air system is complex and relies on control valves to maintain specific mass flow rates, IPSEpro allows analysis of the behaviour of the test facility at several compressor station configurations. The main test facility dimensions and characteristics, as well as the most important equations describing the component models of IPSEpro are shown. Simulation results of several operation points are compared to measured data to validate the methodology. This work was done in the frame of the European research program New Aero Engine Core Concepts (NEWAC) at Graz University of Technology.

Improving Efficiency in Robot Assisted Belt Grinding of High Performance Materials

2014 ◽  
Vol 907 ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckart Uhlmann ◽  
Florian Heitmüller
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Repair Process ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Robot Assisted ◽  
Belt Grinding ◽  
Economy Of Scale ◽  
The Individual

In gas turbines and turbo jet engines, high performance materials such as nickel-based alloys are widely used for blades and vanes. In the case of repair, finishing of complex turbine blades made of high performance materials is carried out predominantly manually. The repair process is therefore quite time consuming. And the costs of presently available repair strategies, especially for integrated parts, are high, due to the individual process planning and great amount of manually performed work steps. Moreover, there are severe risks of partial damage during manually conducted repair. All that leads to the fact that economy of scale effects remain widely unused for repair tasks, although the piece number of components to be repaired is increasing significantly. In the future, a persistent automation of the repair process chain should be achieved by developing adaptive robot assisted finishing strategies. The goal of this research is to use the automation potential for repair tasks by developing a technology that enables industrial robots to re-contour turbine blades via force controlled belt grinding.

scholarly journals A Novel Evaluation Method For Particle Deposition Measurement

Open Physics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 927-934
Author(s):  
Tao Song ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
Hengxuan Zhu ◽  
Min Zeng ◽  
Jin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Layer Thickness ◽  
Dielectric Layer ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Particle Deposition ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Circuit Board ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Mass Detection

Abstract Normal operation of gas turbines will be affected by deposition on turbine blades from particles mixed in fuels. This research shows that it is difficult to monitor the mass of the particles deposition on the wall surface in real time. With development of electronic technology, the antenna made of printed circuit board (PCB) has been widely used in many industrial fields. Microstrip antenna is first proposed for monitoring particles deposition to analyse the deposition law of the particles accumulated on the wall. The simulation software Computer Simulation Technology Microwave Studio (CST MWS) 2015 is used to conduct the optimization design of the PCB substrate antenna. It is found that the S11 of vivaldi antenna with arc gradient groove exhibits a monotonous increase with the increase of dielectric layer thickness, and this antenna is highly sensitive to the dielectric layer thickness. Moreover, a cold-state test is carried out by using atomized wax to simulate the deposition of pollutants. A relationship as a four number of times function is found between the capacitance and the deposited mass. These results provide an important reference for the mass detection of the particle deposition on the wall, and this method is suitable for other related engineering fields.

Measurements and Modeling of Ingress in a New 1.5-Stage Turbine Research Facility

2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marios Patinios ◽  
James A. Scobie ◽  
Carl M. Sangan ◽  
J. Michael Owen ◽  
Gary D. Lock
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Radial Clearance ◽  
Operating Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Purge Flow ◽  
Rotor Disk ◽  
Engine Components

In gas turbines, hot mainstream flow can be ingested into the wheel-space formed between stator and rotor disks as a result of the circumferential pressure asymmetry in the annulus; this ingress can significantly affect the operating life, performance, and integrity of highly stressed, vulnerable engine components. Rim seals, fitted at the periphery of the disks, are used to minimize ingress and therefore reduce the amount of purge flow required to seal the wheel-space and cool the disks. This paper presents experimental results from a new 1.5-stage test facility designed to investigate ingress into the wheel-spaces upstream and downstream of a rotor disk. The fluid-dynamically scaled rig operates at incompressible flow conditions, far removed from the harsh environment of the engine which is not conducive to experimental measurements. The test facility features interchangeable rim-seal components, offering significant flexibility and expediency in terms of data collection over a wide range of sealing flow rates. The rig was specifically designed to enable an efficient method of ranking and quantifying the performance of generic and engine-specific seal geometries. The radial variation of CO2 gas concentration, pressure, and swirl is measured to explore, for the first time, the flow structure in both the upstream and downstream wheel-spaces. The measurements show that the concentration in the core is equal to that on the stator walls and that both distributions are virtually invariant with radius. These measurements confirm that mixing between ingress and egress is essentially complete immediately after the ingested fluid enters the wheel-space and that the fluid from the boundary layer on the stator is the source of that in the core. The swirl in the core is shown to determine the radial distribution of pressure in the wheel-space. The performance of a double radial-clearance seal is evaluated in terms of the variation of effectiveness with sealing flow rate for both the upstream and the downstream wheel-spaces and is found to be independent of rotational Reynolds number. A simple theoretical orifice model was fitted to the experimental data showing good agreement between theory and experiment for all cases. This observation is of great significance as it demonstrates that the theoretical model can accurately predict ingress even when it is driven by the complex unsteady pressure field in the annulus upstream and downstream of the rotor. The combination of the theoretical model and the new test rig with its flexibility and capability for detailed measurements provides a powerful tool for the engine rim-seal designer.

scholarly journals A Dual Half-Bridge Converter with Adaptive Energy Storage to Achieve ZVS over Full Range of Operation Conditions

Energies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhao ◽  
Chuangyu Xu ◽  
Xuemei Zheng ◽  
Haoyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Operation Conditions

An Improved Test Facility for Studying Deposit Fouling on Steam Turbine Blades

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan R. May Estebaranz ◽  
Richard J. Williams ◽  
Simon I. Hogg ◽  
Philip W. Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Steam Pressure ◽  
Reactor Vessel ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Steam Turbines ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Steam Turbine Blades ◽  
Asme Paper

A laboratory scale test facility has been developed to investigate deposition in steam turbines under conditions that are representative of those in steam power generation cycles. The facility is an advanced two-reactor vessel test arrangement, which is a more flexible and more accurately controllable refinement to the single reactor vessel test arrangement described previously in ASME Paper No. GT2014-25517 [1]. The commissioning of the new test facility is described in this paper, together with the results from a series of tests over a range of steam conditions, which show the effect of steam conditions (particularly steam pressure) on the amount and type of deposits obtained. Comparisons are made between the test results and feedback/experience of copper fouling in real machines.

Development and Fabrication of Silicon Nitride Components for Ceramic Gas Turbine

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisuke Makino ◽  
Ken-Ichi Mizuno ◽  
Toru Shimamori
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Silicon Nitride ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Turbine Inlet Temperature ◽  
Spark Plug ◽  
Power Turbine

NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. has been developing various silicon nitride materials, and the technology for fabricating components for ceramic gas turbines (CGT) using theses materials. We are supplying silicon nitride material components for the project to develop 300 kW class CGT for co-generation in Japan. EC-152 was developed for components that require high strength at high temperature, such as turbine blades and turbine nozzles. In order to adapt the increasing of the turbine inlet temperature (TIT) up to 1,350 °C in accordance with the project goals, we developed two silicon nitride materials with further unproved properties: ST-1 and ST-2. ST-1 has a higher strength than EC-152 and is suitable for first stage turbine blades and power turbine blades. ST-2 has higher oxidation resistance than EC-152 and is suitable for power turbine nozzles. In this paper, we report on the properties of these materials, and present the results of evaluations of these materials when they are actually used for CGT components such as first stage turbine blades and power turbine nozzles.

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