Gas Turbines for Electric Power Generation

Informationen zum Autor S. Can Gulen (Ph.D) PE, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow, has a combined twenty-five years of mechanical engineering experience covering a wide spectrum of technology, system, and software design, development, assessment, and analysis, in the field of steam and gas turbine combined cycle process and power plant turbomachinery and thermodynamics at Thermoflow, Inc., General Electric and Bechtel. He has written numerous technical white papers and journal articles on design practices and technical assessment reports. He holds more than twenty US patents on gas turbine performance, cost, optimization, data reconciliation, analysis and modelling. Klappentext Everything you wanted to know about industrial gas turbines for electric power generation in one source with hard-to-find, hands-on technical information. Zusammenfassung Everything about industrial gas turbines for electric power generation in one source including hard-to-find, hands-on technical information. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Prerequisites: 2. The tool chest; 3. Ground rules; 4. Past and present; Part II. Fundamentals: 5. Thermodynamics; 6. Technology factors; 7. Heat and mass balance; 8. Real cycle analysis; 9. Turbine cooling; 10. Turbine aero; 11. Compressor aero; 12. Combustion; 13. Materials; 14. The hardware; Part III. Extras: 15. The AC generator; 16. Reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM); 17. Combined cycle; 18. Off-design operation; 19. Transient operation; 20. Economics; 21. The hall of fame; Part IV. Special Topics: 22. Closed-cycle gas turbine; 23. Aeroderivative gas turbine; 24. Epilogue; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: S. Can G¿len, S. Can Gulen, S Can Gülen, S. Can Gülen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108416658
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41665-8
• No. of pages: 732
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Energy technology & engineering, Thermodynamics & heat, Aerospace & aviation technology, Energy technology and engineering, Aerospace and aviation technology, Thermodynamics and heat, Heat transfer processes