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Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles

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J.H. Horlock

Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles

Book2003

 

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J.H. Horlock

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Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. The search for high gas turbine efficiency has produced many variations on the simple "open circuit" plant, ... read full description

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    Chapter 1 - A BRIEF REVIEW OF POWER GENERATION THERMODYNAMICS

    Pages 1-11

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    Chapter 2 - REVERSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY

    Pages 13-26

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    Chapter 3 - BASIC GAS TURBINE CYCLES

    Pages 27-46

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    Chapter 4 - CYCLE EFFICIENCY WITH TURBINE COOLING (COOLING FLOW RATES SPECIFIED)

    Pages 47-69

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    Chapter 5 - FULL CALCULATIONS OF PLANT EFFICIENCY

    Pages 71-84

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    Chapter 6 - ‘WET’ GAS TURBINE PLANTS

    Pages 85-108

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    Chapter 7 - THE COMBINED CYCLE GAS TURBINE (CCGT)

    Pages 109-129

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    Chapter 8 - NOVEL GAS TURBINE CYCLES

    Pages 131-165

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    Chapter 9 - THE GAS TURBINE AS A COGENERATION (COMBINED HEAT AND POWER) PLANT

    Pages 167-181

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    Appendix A - DERIVATION OF REQUIRED COOLING FLOWS

    Pages 183-187

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    Appendix B - ECONOMICS OF GAS TURBINE PLANTS

    Pages 189-194

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    SUBJECT INDEX

    Pages 195-203

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Description

Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. The search for high gas turbine efficiency has produced many variations on the simple "open circuit" plant, involving the use of heat exchangers, reheating and intercooling, water and steam injection, cogeneration and combined cycle plants. These are described fully in the text.

A review of recent proposals for a number of novel gas turbine cycles is also included. In the past few years work has been directed towards developing gas turbines which produce less carbon dioxide, or plants from which the CO2 can be disposed of; the implications of a carbon tax on electricity pricing are considered.

In presenting this wide survey of gas turbine cycles for power generation the author calls on both his academic experience (at Cambridge and Liverpool Universities, the Gas Turbine Laboratory at MIT and Penn State University) and his industrial work (primarily with Rolls Royce, plc.) The book will be essential reading for final year and masters students in mechanical engineering, and for practising engineers.

Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. The search for high gas turbine efficiency has produced many variations on the simple "open circuit" plant, involving the use of heat exchangers, reheating and intercooling, water and steam injection, cogeneration and combined cycle plants. These are described fully in the text.

A review of recent proposals for a number of novel gas turbine cycles is also included. In the past few years work has been directed towards developing gas turbines which produce less carbon dioxide, or plants from which the CO2 can be disposed of; the implications of a carbon tax on electricity pricing are considered.

In presenting this wide survey of gas turbine cycles for power generation the author calls on both his academic experience (at Cambridge and Liverpool Universities, the Gas Turbine Laboratory at MIT and Penn State University) and his industrial work (primarily with Rolls Royce, plc.) The book will be essential reading for final year and masters students in mechanical engineering, and for practising engineers.

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ISBN

978-0-08-044273-0

Language

English

Published

2003

Copyright

Copyright © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

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Pergamon

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Authors

J.H. Horlock

Whittle Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K.