Gas Turbines Books
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Transport Fuels Technology: Mobility for the Millennium
Transport is fundamental for today's lifestyles. Speed and reliability demand powered propulsion, which is why suitable fuels are so vital. This volume contains preliminary reviews of the basic sciences, followed by in-depth discussions of the sources, processing, properties, handling, combustion performance, and emissions of both conventional and alternative fuel types. It concludes with a ...
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Thermo-mechanical Fatigue Behavior of Materials: Third Volume
20 papers from leading experts on the thermal and thermo-mechanical fatigue of structural alloys expose the deformation and damage mechanisms in thermo-mechanical fatigue in all materials. Includes papers on the study of stress-strain response in a number of technologically important materials, damage mechanisms in thermo-mechanical fatigue (creep, oxidation effects), microscopic investigations ...
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MiCon 86: Optimization of Processing, Properties, and Service Performance Through Microstructural Control
STP 979 presents 11 papers that focus on advanced and high temperature materials for the 1990’s and beyond. The papers are divided into three sections: high-temperature materials for power generation, including ferritic and austenitic steels; advanced high-temperature materials for the gas turbine engine and advanced processing, including particle metallurgy and directional solidification; and ...
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Stationary Gas Turbine Alternative Fuels
This publication serves to assess the state of the art of alternative liquid and gaseous fuels for stationary gas turbine as well as providing a technical database of properties of alternative fuels specifications activities. ...
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Effect of Load Variables
Documents the significance of load spectra variation on structural life as measured by crack initiation and crack growth and presents an excellent service spectrum fatigue technology. Experts cover a wide variety of subjects from various engineering fields, such as load spectra representative of aircraft structures, gas turbines, and windmill structures along with analytical and experimental ...
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Manual on Requirements, Handling, and Quality Control of Gas Turbine Fuel
The Symposium on Gas Turbine Fuel Requirements, Handling and Quality Control was presented at the Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Testing and Materials held in Los Angeles, Calif., 2530 June 1972. The symposium was sponsored by Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants, Technical Division D02.C on Turbine Oils. H. vonE. Doering, General Electric Co., ...
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Cyclic Stress-Strain Behavior: Analysis, Experimentation, and Failure Prediction
Fifteen papers treat time-dependent, notch, cumulative effects of cyclic stress-strain. Of significant benefit to designers of nuclear reactors, steam and gas turbines, aircraft and jet structure ...
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Combined Heating, Cooling & Power Handbook: Technologies & Applications, 2nd Edition
In today's energy market and public policy environment, economic gains can be achieved by making sound energy and environmental efficiency decisions. This book serves as a "how-to" manual for applying energy and environmental efficiency technologies to create high-performance environments and to improve profitability. The book has four main parts:Part 1: Theory and Technologyincludes an ...
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Introduction to Physics and Chemistry of Combustion
Most of the material covered in this book deals with the fundamentals of chemistry and physics of key processes and fundamental mechanisms for various combustion and combustion related phenomena in gaseous combustible mixture. It provides the reader with basic knowledge of burning processes and mechanisms of reaction wave propagation. The combustion of a gas mixture (flame, explosion, detonation) ...
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API STD 616 For Petroleum Refining Standards
1 Scope This standard covers the minimum requirements for open, simple, and regenerative-cycle combustion gas turbine units for services of mechanical drive, generator drive, or process gas generation. All auxiliary equipment required for operating, starting, and controlling gas turbine units and for turbine protection is either discussed directly in this standard or referred to in this standard ...
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Materials for Advanced Power Engineering 1994 Part I & Part II
The role of energy in the modern world goes beyond mere technology and economics to influence welfare, the environment, the quality of life and, in broad terms, civilization itself. Since the industrial revolution, energy conservation technology has been at the forefront of the innovation required to satisfy the needs of mankind and, more than any other, this technology has always depended ...
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