Particulate Monitor for Gas Turbine Cooling Air

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Bunce ◽  
Francisco Dovali-Solis ◽  
Robert W. Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Gas Turbine Engine ◽  
Minimum Size ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Air System ◽  
Air Cooler ◽  
Secondary Air ◽  
Cooling Air

It is important to monitor the quality of the air used in the cooling system of a gas turbine engine. There can be many reasons that particulates smaller than the minimum size removed by typical engine air filters can enter the secondary air system piping in a gas turbine engine system. Siemens has developed a system that provide real time monitoring of particulate concentrations by adapting a commercial electrodynamic devise for use within the confines of the gas turbine secondary air system with provision for a grab sample option to collect samples for laboratory analysis. This on-line monitoring system is functional at typical engine cooling system piping operating pressure and temperature. The system is calibrated for detection of iron oxide particles in the 1 to 100 micrometer range at concentration of from 1 to 50 parts per million mass wet (ppmmw) The electro dynamic device is nominally operable at 800°C. The particulate monitoring system requires special mounting and antenna. This system may be adjusted for other materials, sizes and concentrations. The system and its developmental application are described. The system has been tested and test results are reviewed. The test application was the cooling air piping of a Siemens gas turbine engine. Multiple locations were monitored. The cooling system in this engine incorporates an air cooler and the particulate monitoring system was tested upstream and downstream of the air cooler for temperature contrast. The monitor itself is limited to the piping system and not the engine gas-path.

Virtual Gas Turbines Part II: an Automated Whole-Engine Secondary Air System Model Generation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davendu Y. Kulkarni ◽  
Luca di Mare
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Design Analysis ◽  
Model Generation ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Flow Network ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Geometry Model ◽  
Air System ◽  
Secondary Air

Abstract The design and analysis of the secondary air system (SAS) of gas turbine engine is a complex and time-consuming process because of its complicated geometry topology. The conventional SAS design-analysis model generation process is quite tedious, time consuming. It is still heavily dependent on human expertise and thus incurs high time-cost. This paper presents an automated, whole-engine SAS flow network model generation methodology. During the SAS preprocessing step, the method accesses a pre-built whole-engine geometry model created using a novel, in-house, feature-based geometry modelling environment. It then transforms the engine geometry features into the features suitable for SAS flow network analysis. The proposed method not only extracts the geometric information from the computational geometry but also retrieves additional non-geometric attributes such as, rotational frames, boundary types, materials and boundary conditions etc. Apart from ensuring geometric consistency, this methodology also establishes a bi-directional information exchange protocol between engine geometry model and SAS flow network model, which enables making engine geometry modifications based on SAS analysis results. The application of this feature mapping methodology is demonstrated by generating the secondary air system (SAS) flow network model of a modern three-shaft gas turbine engine. This capability is particularly useful for the integration of geometry modeler with the simulation framework. The present SAS model is generated within a few minutes, without any human intervention, which significantly reduces the SAS design-analysis time-cost. The proposed method allows performing a large number of whole-engine SAS simulations, design optimisations and fast re-design activities.

LV100 AIPS Technology—For Future Army Propulsion

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Brockett ◽  
Angelo Koschier
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Gas Turbine Engine ◽  
Air Filtration ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Armored Vehicle ◽  
And Control

The overall design of and Advanced Integrated Propulsion System (AIPS), powered by an LV100 gas turbine engine, is presented along with major test accomplishments. AIPS was a demonstrator program that included design, fabrication, and test of an advanced rear drive powerpack for application in a future heavy armored vehicle (54.4 tonnes gross weight). The AIPS design achieved significant improvements in volume, performance, fuel consumption, reliability/durability, weight and signature reduction. Major components of AIPS included the recuperated LV100 turbine engine, a hydrokinetic transmission, final drives, self-cleaning air filtration (SCAF), cooling system, signature reduction systems, electrical and hydraulic components, and control systems with diagnostics/prognostics and maintainability features.

scholarly journals Cooling and Sealing Air System in Industrial Gas Turbine Engines

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Reichert ◽  
M. Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Turbine Inlet ◽  
Air System ◽  
Calculation System ◽  
Cooling Air

Siemens heavy duty Gas Turbines have been well known for their high power output combined with high efficiency and reliability for more than 3 decades. Offering state of the art technology at all times, the requirements concerning the cooling and sealing air system have increased with technological development over the years. In particular the increase of the turbine inlet temperature and reduced NOx requirements demand a highly efficient cooling and sealing air system. The new Vx4.3A family of Siemens gas turbines with ISO turbine inlet temperatures of 1190°C in the power range of 70 to 240 MW uses an effective film cooling technique for the turbine stages 1 and 2 to ensure the minimum cooling air requirement possible. In addition, the application of film cooling enables the cooling system to be simplified. For example, in the new gas turbine family no intercooler and no cooling air booster for the first turbine vane are needed. This paper deals with the internal air system of Siemens gas turbines which supplies cooling and sealing air. A general overview is given and some problems and their technical solutions are discussed. Furthermore a state of the art calculation system for the prediction of the thermodynamic states of the cooling and sealing air is introduced. The calculation system is based on the flow calculation package Flowmaster (Flowmaster International Ltd.), which has been modified for the requirements of the internal air system. The comparison of computational results with measurements give a good impression of the high accuracy of the calculation method used.

Application of a Miniature Telemetry System in a Small Gas Turbine Engine

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Long ◽  
Patrick A. Reiger ◽  
Michael W. Elliott ◽  
Stephen L. Edney ◽  
Frank Knabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Gas Turbine Engine ◽  
Telemetry System ◽  
Strain Gages ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Power Turbine ◽  
Successful Execution ◽  
Integration Effort

For the purpose of assessing combustion effects in a small gas turbine engine, there was a requirement to evaluate the rotating temperature and dynamic characteristics of the power turbine rotor module. This assessment required measurements be taken within the engine, during operation up to maximum power, using rotor mounted thermocouples and strain gages. The acquisition of this data necessitated the use of a telemetry system that could be integrated into the existing engine architecture without affecting performance. Due to space constraints, housing of the telemetry module was limited to placement in a hot section. In order to tolerate the high temperature environment, a cooling system was developed as part of the integration effort to maintain telemetry module temperatures within the limit allowed by the electronics. Finite element thermal analysis was used to guide the design of the cooling system. This was to ensure that sufficient airflow was introduced and appropriately distributed to cool the telemetry cavity, and hence electronics, without affecting the performance of the engine. Presented herein is a discussion of the telemetry system, instrumentation design philosophy, cooling system design and verification, and sample of the results acquired through successful execution of the full engine test program.

Updating the Helicopter Gas Turbine Engine Mass Model for the Defining of the Turboshaft Engine Optimal Operating Cycle Parameters

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Kalabuhov ◽  
V. A. Grigoriev ◽  
A. O. Zagrebelnyi ◽  
D. S. Diligensky
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Unit ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Gas Turbine Engine ◽  
Parameters Optimization ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Mass Model ◽  
Operating Cycle ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Turboshaft Engine

Abstract The article describes the adjusted parametrical turboshaft gas turbine engine mass model that is applied for the helicopter engine operating cycle parameters optimization during a conceptual engineering. During the operation of the take-off mass, which indirectly characterizes the cost of materials for the entire designed aircraft system, one of the main components which determines the coordination of the helicopter and its engine parameters is a mass of the gas turbine power unit. Moreover, during the parametrical studies the designed mass of a power unit should be defined by the parameters of a gas turbine engine; however, this type of dependencies is not that well enough studied for today. Therefore the evaluation of the dependency between the engine mass and its operational parameters is performed by using either generalized statistical data for existing designs or by parametrical mass models since there is nothing more precise up to date. However as new types of gas turbine engines appear it is required to update the values of parametrical model coefficients. This article describes the influence of different cooling system units on the engine mass and also clarifies the coefficients that specify the engine mass advance by introducing the structural-technological measures. The last one is highly dependent on the designed gas turbine engine (GTE) serial production year. It also has been proposed to represent some coefficients that are used in the model as dependencies of the main operational parameters. This has allowed to perform the parametrical study and to gain predictive solutions in correspondence to the modern engine design level.

Heavy Duty Gas Turbine Simulation: Global Performances Estimation and Secondary Air System Modifications

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Carcasci ◽  
Bruno Facchini ◽  
Stefano Gori ◽  
Luca Bozzi ◽  
Stefano Traverso
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Coupled Analysis ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Air System ◽  
Secondary Air ◽  
And Performance

This paper reviews a modular-structured program ESMS (Energy System Modular Simulation) for the simulation of air-cooled gas turbines cycles, including the calculation of the secondary air system. The program has been tested for the Ansaldo Energia gas turbine V94.3A, which is one of the more advanced models in the family Vx4.3A with a rated power of 270 MW. V94.3A cooling system has been modeled with SASAC (Secondary Air System Ansaldo Code), the Ansaldo code used to predict the structure of the flow through the internal air system. The objective of the work was to investigate the tuning of the analytical program on the basis of the data from design and performance codes in use at Ansaldo Energy Gas Turbine Department. The results, both at base load over different ambient conditions and in critical off-design operating points (full-speed-no-load and minimum-load), have been compared with APC (Ansaldo Performance Code) and confirmed by field data. The coupled analysis of cycle and cooling network shows interesting evaluations for components life estimation and reliability during off-design operating conditions.

ALGOR Gas Turbine Performance Modular Tool: Map Based Modules Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Canepa ◽  
Stefano Piola ◽  
Marco Pirotta ◽  
Andrea Silingardi ◽  
Federico Bonzani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Balance ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Performance Estimation ◽  
Modular Structure ◽  
Nonlinear Phenomena ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Air System ◽  
Secondary Air ◽  
Flow Functions

Commercially available or in-house developed performance tools, mostly based on heat and mass balance, are nowadays widespread among Universities, consulting companies and utilities. Generally these software are based on main gas turbine measurable information and, yet accurate on global performance estimation, are limited in the level of insight on component performance they can provide and also in the range of analysis, generally limited to engine possible operating points. On the other hand, the tools adopted by OEMs generally differ for components (compressor, turbine and combustor) and secondary air system details. In ASEN experience ALGOR heat and mass balance software is used as a platform for system integrations between each disciplines by means of a modular structure in which a large number of modules, chosen from the available library, are freely connected allowing to potentially analyze any gas turbine engine configuration. This paper describes the structure and the implementation of latest ALGOR updates, developed by ASEN and University of Florence, aimed at creating new map based modules for compressor and secondary air system. With this approach, component performance coming from field data can be continuously adopted to refine the reliability of calculation. Furthermore, nonlinear phenomena occurring in stationary and rotating cooling passages can be evaluated only with devoted calculation tools, which output can be conveniently translated in flow functions maps. Thanks to ALGOR modular structure, with these newly available (map-interpolating) modules, additional levels of analysis are allowed, ranging from “cycle deck” map-matching level, to mixed modelling in which map based modules are linked with 1D mean line analysis modules. Moreover their use can be also foreseen in ASEN conceptual design approach in which just map reference points are adjusted to reflect expected technological leaps required by engine upgrade.

Telemetry System Integrated in a Small Gas Turbine Engine

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A Long ◽  
Stephen L Edney ◽  
Patrick A Reiger ◽  
Michael W Elliott ◽  
Frank Knabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Gas Turbine Engine ◽  
Telemetry System ◽  
Test Program ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Power Turbine ◽  
Successful Execution ◽  
Integration Effort

For the purpose of assessing combustion effects in a small gas turbine engine, there was a requirement to evaluate the rotating temperature and dynamic characteristics of the power turbine rotor module. This assessment required measurements be taken within the engine, during operation up to maximum power, using rotor mounted thermocouples and strain gauges. The acquisition of this data necessitated the use of a telemetry system that could be integrated into the existing engine architecture without affecting performance. As a result of space constraints, housing of the telemetry module was limited to placement in a hot section. To tolerate the high temperature environment, a cooling system was developed as part of the integration effort to maintain telemetry module temperatures within the limit allowed by the electronics. Finite element thermal analysis was used to guide the design of the cooling system. This was to ensure that sufficient airflow was introduced and appropriately distributed to cool the telemetry cavity, and hence electronics, without affecting the performance of the engine. Presented herein is a discussion of the telemetry system, instrumentation design philosophy, cooling system design and verification, and sample of the results acquired through successful execution of the full engine test program.

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