Development of a Course on Gas and Steam Turbines Supported by Cost-Efficient Turbomachinery Experiments
Based on a voice-of-the-industry survey covering major turbine manufactures as well as power plant owners and operators an undergraduate course on gas and steam turbines was developed at Muenster University of Applied Sciences. This course is also supported by cost-efficient experiments. The experimental investigations on laboratory test rigs are making the students more familiar with turbomachinery phenomena like gas turbine cycle performance, fundamental rotordynamics, blade vibrations, and flow through turbine cascades and loss correlations. The experiments and test rigs were developed in great part by students as part of their Bachelor or Master theses. Furthermore, the experiments did not require tremendous efforts or an expensive infrastructure; they were operated in typical University laboratory environments.