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2001 -GT-0199
ON THE PERFORMANCE OF GAS TURBINE SECONDARY AIR SYSTEMS
Dr Andrew Foley
Senior Lecturer,
School Of Engineering,
Coventry University,
England.
Compressor Power
(i= Point of return.) f (r 1__2) "~
Note that the value of Cp to use is the mean value of inlet and
exit values. An altemative method could be to use specific
enthalpy tbund directly from tables. However the benefit is
second order and the above calculation is found to be more
than adequate. Turbine Power
~ ~. comp inlet J
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will be absent of any of the complications of air bleeds and
returns. It will only perform calculations based on the net
CpZi_l nl~lir i 1 - P'_ • ... (2)
amount of air passing completely through the compressor,
combustor and entering into the turbine and the author has
found it possible to undertake the entire performance
B O U N D A R Y C O N D I T I O N S K E P T FIXED
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COMBUSTION ~COMPRESSOR TURBINE ~OTHER
MODEL / TESTS MODEL /TESTS MODEL /TESTS iSUBSYSTEMS
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Fiaure 1. Air system performance using the whole engine performance model.
0.60 1.30 f
0.70 0.30 20
0.10
0.10 .30
0.2
Key :
. / Identification
N10
Pressure : Bar 2.00 t 0.1 ~, M assflow kgls
[ 69%
~'~-~Temperature : Kelvin
Figure 2. Simplified secondary air system network for a 4 MW Industrial Gas Turbine-
Wcomp = 5 . 5 0 0 MW Wturb = 9 . 5 0 0 MW
2.1 kg/s
Points of r e t u r n . G a s p r o p e r t i e s d e t e r m i n e d
AIR S Y S T E M MODEL DATA
from air s y s t e m model. (I.e. T e m p e r a t u r e ,
P r e s s u r e and m a s e f l o w at e a c h p o i n t
R1,R2,R 3 etc..)
AIR S Y S T E M
..................................................... M O D E L : (See figure
MBL
= 32.0 %
FIGURE 3. Simple engine performance model and air system boundary conditions.
R3 N13 2.90 695 1008 0.30 125631 553 1056. 45100 80531
R4 N14 1.20 690 1028 0.20 82688 664 1069 5474 77215
R e t u r n p r e s s u r e b a s e d on P r e s s u r e at R e t u r n N o d e . ( B o u n d a r y C o n d i t i o n )
** R e t u r n T e m p e r a t u r e b a s e d on U p s t r e a m N o d e . ( I n t e r n a l N o d e )
*** Turbine Isentropic Efficiency = 0.820