The outline of plans for the research and development of an advanced reheat gas turbine under the Moonlight Project (Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and Industry) has already been announced in 1981 at Houston (81-GT-28), while technical problems related to the pilot plant (Paper No. 83-TOKYO-IGTC-117) as well as performance and characteristics (Paper No. 83-TOKYO-IGTC-40) have been announced at the 1983 Tokyo International Gas Turbine Congress.
No-load shop tests conducted on the pilot reheat gas turbine during the period of May to July, 1983, were consummated with highly satisfactory results, so this paper is dedicated primarily to giving a description of the shop tests.