Development of Condition Monitoring Test Cell Using Micro Gas Turbine Engine

Author(s):  
Seonghee Kho ◽  
Jayoung Ki ◽  
Miyoung Park ◽  
Changduk Kong ◽  
Kyungjae Lee

This study is aim to be programmed the simulation which is available for real-time performance analysis so that is to be developed gas turbine engine’s condition monitoring system with analyzing difference between performance analysis results and measuring data from test cell. In addition, test cell created by this study have been developed to use following applications: to use for learning principals and mechanism of gas turbine engine in school, and to use performance test and its further research for variable operating conditions in associated institutes. The maximum thrust of the micro turbojet engine is 137 N (14 kgf) at 126,000 rpm of rotor rotational speed if the Jet A1 kerosene fuel is used. The air flow rate is measured by the inflow air speed of duct, and the fuel flow is measured by a volumetric fuel flowmeter. Temperatures and pressures are measured at the atmosphere, the compressor inlet and outlet and the turbine outlet. The thrust stand was designed and manufactured to measure accurately the thrust by the load cell. All measuring sensors are connected to a DAQ (Data Acquisition) device, and the logging data are used as function parameters of the program, LabVIEW. The LabVIEW is used to develop the engine condition monitoring program. The proposed program can perform both the reference engine model performance analysis at an input condition and the real-time performance analysis with real-time variables. By comparing two analysis results the engine condition can be monitored. Both engine performance analysis data and monitoring results are displayed by the GUI (Graphic User Interface) platform.

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
G.G. Kulikov ◽  
T.V. Breikin ◽  
V.Y. Arkov ◽  
P.J. Fleming

Author(s):  
Changduk Kong ◽  
Semyeong Lim ◽  
Seonghwan Oh ◽  
Jihyun Kim

The gas turbine engine performance is greatly relied on its component performance characteristics. Generally, acquisition of component maps is not easy for engine purchasers because it is an intellectual property of gas turbine engine supplier. In the previous work, the maps were inversely generated from engine performance deck data. However this method is limited to obtain the realistic maps from the calculated performance deck data. Present work proposes a novel method to generate more realistic component maps from experimental performance test data. In order to demonstrate the proposed method, firstly the NI data acquisition device with the proposed LabVIEW on-condition monitoring program monitors and collects real-time performance data such as temperature, pressure, thrust, and fuel flow etc. from a micro turbojet engine of the test setup which is specially manufactured for this study. Real-time data obtained from the test results are used for inverse generation of the component maps after processing by some numerical schemes. Realistic component maps can then be generated from those processed data using the proposed extended scaling method at each rotational speed. Verification can be made through comparison between performance analysis results using the performance simulation program including the generated compressor map and on-condition monitoring performance data.


1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Watts ◽  
T. E. Dwan ◽  
C. G. Brockus

An analog fuel control for a gas turbine engine was compared with several state-space derived fuel controls. A single-spool, simple cycle gas turbine engine was modeled using ACSL (high level simulation language based on FORTRAN). The model included an analog fuel control representative of existing commercial fuel controls. The ACSL model was stripped of nonessential states to produce an eight-state linear state-space model of the engine. The A, B, and C matrices, derived from rated operating conditions, were used to obtain feedback control gains by the following methods: (1) state feedback; (2) LQR theory; (3) Bellman method; and (4) polygonal search. An off-load transient followed by an on-load transient was run for each of these fuel controls. The transient curves obtained were used to compare the state-space fuel controls with the analog fuel control. The state-space fuel controls did better than the analog control.


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