S. Can Gülen

Gas Turbines for Electric Power Generation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Everything you wanted to know about industrial gas turbines for electric power generation in one source with hard-to-find, hands-on technical information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1429g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416658
• ISBN-10: 1108416659
• Artikelnr.: 53692546

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.