Front Cover -- Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- About the Author -- I: Design: Theory and Practice -- 1 An Overview of Gas Turbines -- Gas Turbine Cycle in the Combined Cycle or Cogeneration Mode -- Gas Turbine Performance -- Gas Turbine Design Considerations -- Categories of Gas Turbines -- Frame Type Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines -- Aircraft-Derivative Gas Turbines -- Industrial-Type Gas Turbines -- Small Gas Turbines -- Vehicular Gas Turbines -- Truck Engines -- Microturbines -- Major Gas Turbine Components -- Compressors -- Axial-Flow Compressors -- Centrifugal-Flow Compressors -- Regenerators/Recuperators -- Fuel Type -- Combustors -- Environmental Effects -- The Diffusion Type Combustor -- The Dry Low Emission Combustors -- Typical Combustor Arrangements -- Can-annular and Annular Designs -- Silo-Type Combustors and Side Combustors -- External (Experimental) -- Turbine Expander Section -- Radial-Inflow Turbine -- Mixed-Flow Turbine -- Axial-Flow Turbines -- Materials -- Coatings -- Gas Turbine Heat Recovery -- Supplementary Firing of Heat Recovery Systems -- Instrumentation and Controls -- 2 Theoretical and Actual Cycle Analyses -- The Brayton Cycle -- Regeneration Effect -- Increasing the Work Output of the Simple-Cycle Gas Turbine -- Intercooling and Reheating Effects -- Actual Cycle Analysis -- The Simple Cycle -- The Split-Shaft Simple Cycle -- The Regenerative Cycle -- The Inter-cooled Simple Cycle -- The Reheat Cycle -- The Inter-cooled Regenerative Reheat Cycle -- The Steam Injection Cycle -- The Evaporative Regenerative Cycle -- The Brayton-Rankine Cycle -- Summation of Cycle Analysis -- A General Overview of Combined-Cycle Plants.

Compressed Air Energy Storage Cycle -- Power Augmentation -- Inlet Cooling -- Injection of Compressed Air, Steam, or Water -- Inlet Cooling Techniques -- Evaporative Cooling of the Turbine -- Refrigerated Inlets for the Gas Turbines -- Mechanical Refrigeration -- Absorption Cooling Systems -- Combination of Evaporative and Refrigerated Inlet Systems -- Thermal Energy Storage Systems -- Injection of Compressed Air, Steam, or Water for Increasing Power -- Mid-Compressor Flashing of Water -- Injection of Humidified and Heated Compressed Air -- Injection of Water or Steam at the Gas Turbine Compressor Exit -- Injection of Steam in the Combustor of the Gas Turbines Utilizing Present Dual Fuel Nozzles -- Combination of Evaporative Cooling and Steam Injection -- Summation of the Power Augmentation Systems -- Bibliography -- 3 Compressor and Turbine Performance Characteristics -- Aerothermodynamics of Turbomachinery -- Ideal Gas -- Dry- and Wet-bulb Temperatures -- Temperature Measurement Devices -- RTDs Versus Thermocouples -- Optical and Radiation Pyrometers -- Viscosity -- Ideal Gas Laws -- Compressibility Effect -- Aerothermal Equations -- Continuity Equation -- Momentum Equation -- Energy Equation -- Efficiencies -- Adiabatic Thermal Efficiency -- Polytropic Efficiency -- Dimensional Analysis -- Compressor Performance Characteristics -- Turbine Performance Characteristics -- Gas Turbine Performance Computation -- Bibliography -- 4 Performance and Mechanical Standards -- Major Variables for a Gas Turbine Application -- Type of Application -- Aircraft Propulsion -- Mechanical Drives -- Power Generation -- Plant Location and Site Configuration -- Plant Type -- Gas Turbine Size and Efficiency -- Type of Fuel -- Enclosures -- Plant Operation Mode: Base or Peaking -- Start-Up Techniques -- Performance Standards -- ASME PTC 19.1: Test Uncertainty.

ASME PTC 19.3: Part 3: Temperature Measurement Instruments and Apparatus -- ASME PTC 19.5: Flow Measurement, Published 2004 -- PTC 19.10: Flue and Exhaust Gas Analyses, Part 10 -- ASME PTC 19.11: Steam and Water Sampling, Conditioning, and Analysis in the Power Cycle -- ASME PTC 19.23: Guidance Manual for Model Testing, Published 1980 -- ASME PTC 46: Performance Test Code on Overall Plant Performance, Published January 1, 1996 -- Object and Scope -- Performance Test Code on Gas Turbines -- ASME PTC 22, Published 2006 -- Description -- ASME Measurement of Exhaust Emissions from Stationary Gas Turbine Engines B133.9, Published 1994 -- ASME PTC 36 Measurement of Industrial Sound (ASME B133.8),Published 2004 -- Mechanical Parameters -- ASME B 133.2 Basic Gas Turbines, Published 1977 (Reaffirmed: 1997) -- ASME B133.3 Procurement Standard for Gas Turbine Auxiliary Equipment, Published 1981 (Reaffirmed 1994) -- ASME B133.4 Gas Turbine Control and Protection Systems, Published 1978 (Reaffirmed: 1997) -- ASME B133.5 Procurement Standard for Gas Turbine Electrical Equipment, Published 1978 (Reaffirmed: 1994) -- ASME B 133.7M Gas Turbine Fuels, Published 1985 (Reaffirmed: 1992) -- ASME B133.8 Gas Turbine Installation Sound Emissions, Published 1977 (Reaffirmed: 1989) -- ASME B133.9 Measurement of Exhaust Emissions from Stationary Gas Turbine Engines, Published: 1994 -- API Std 616 Gas Turbines for the Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, Fourth Edition, August 1998 -- API Std 613 Special Purpose Gear Units for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, Fourth Edition, June 1995 -- API Std 614 Lubrication, Shaft-Sealing, and Control-Oil Systems and Auxiliaries for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry ... -- API Std 618, Reciprocating Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, Fourth Edition, June 1995.

API Std 619, Rotary-Type Positive Displacement Compressors for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, ... -- ANSI/API Std 670 Vibration, Axial-Position, and Bearing-Temperature Monitoring Systems, Third Edition, November 1993 -- API Std 671, Special Purpose Couplings for Petroleum,Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, Third Edition, October 1998 -- API Std 677, General-Purpose Gear Units for Petroleum, Chemical, and Gas Industry Services, Second Edition, July 1997 ... -- Application of the Mechanical Standards to the Gas Turbine -- Gears -- Lubrication Systems -- Vibration Measurements -- Specifications -- 5 Rotor Dynamics -- Mathematical Analysis -- Undamped Free System -- Damped System -- Overdamped System -- Critically Damped System -- Underdamped System -- Forced Vibrations -- Design Considerations -- Natural Frequency -- Unbalances -- Application to Rotating Machines -- Rigid Supports -- Flexible Supports -- Critical Speed Calculations for Rotor Bearing Systems -- Electromechanical Systems and Analogies -- Forces Acting on a Rotor-Bearing System -- Forces Transmitted to Casing and Foundations -- Forces Generated by Rotor Motion -- Forces Applied to a Rotor -- Rotor-Bearing System Instabilities -- Forced (Resonant) Vibration -- Periodic Loading -- Self-Excited Instabilities -- Hysteretic Whirl -- Dry-Friction Whirl -- Oil Whirl -- Aerodynamic Whirl -- Whirl from Fluid Trapped in the Rotor -- Campbell Diagram -- Bibliography -- II: Major Components -- 6 Centrifugal Compressors -- Centrifugal Compressor Components -- Inlet Guide Vanes -- Impeller -- Inducer -- Centrifugal Section of an Impeller -- Causes of Slip in an Impeller -- Coriolis Circulation -- Boundary-Layer Development -- Leakage -- Number of Vanes -- Vane Thickness -- Stodola Slip Factor -- Stanitz Slip Factor -- Diffusers -- Scroll or Volute.

Centrifugal Compressor Performance -- Rotor Losses -- Shock in Rotor Losses -- Incidence Loss -- Disc Friction Loss -- Diffusion-Blading Loss -- Clearance Loss -- Skin Friction Loss -- Stator Losses -- Recirculating Loss -- Wake-Mixing Loss -- Vaneless Diffuser Loss -- Vaned Diffuser Loss -- Exit Loss -- Compressor Surge -- Effects of Gas Composition -- External Causes and Effects of Surge -- Surge Detection and Control -- Process Centrifugal Compressors -- Compressor Configuration -- Impeller Fabrication -- Bibliography -- 7 Axial-Flow Compressors -- Introduction -- Blade and Cascade Nomenclature -- Elementary Airfoil Theory -- Laminar-Flow Airfoils -- Energy Increase -- Velocity Triangles -- Degree of Reaction -- Radial Equilibrium -- Diffusion Factor -- The Incidence Rule -- The Deviation Rule -- Compressor Operation Characteristics -- Compressor Surge -- Compressor Choke -- Compressor Stall -- Individual Blade Stall -- Rotating Stall -- Stall Flutter -- Compressor Performance Parameters -- Performance Losses in an Axial-Flow Compressor -- New Developments in Axial-Flow Compressors -- Axial-Flow Compressor Research -- Cascade Tests -- Blade Profile -- Compressor Blade Material -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- 8 Radial-Inflow Turbines -- Hydraulic Radial-Inflow Turbines -- Radial-Inflow Turbines for Gas Applications -- Turbine Configurations -- Thermodynamic and Aerodynamic Theory -- Turbine Design Considerations -- Performance of a Radial-Inflow Turbine -- Losses in a Radial-Inflow Turbine -- Radial-Inflow Turbine Applications -- Bibliography -- 9 Axial-Flow Turbines -- Turbine Geometry -- Thermodynamic and Aerodynamic Theory -- Utilization Factor -- Degree of Reaction -- Work Factor -- Velocity Diagrams -- Zero-Exit Swirl Diagram -- Impulse Diagram -- Symmetrical Diagram -- Impulse Turbine -- Turbine Blade Cooling Concepts.

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