International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines

Performance of Industrial Gas Turbines through Blade Design and Cooling Strategies

  1. Vishal Sharma

Abstract

Industrial gas turbines are steam engines that leverage an ongoing stream of high pressure air togenerate mechanical power. These machines can be used for a variety of industrial applications,including that of the manufacturing of electricity, oil and gas, and the propulsion of ships andplanes. The classification can be made of an industrial gas turbine are a turbine, a combustionchamber, and a compressor. Incoming air is compressed by the compressor to enhance itspressure and temperature. Fuel is then mixed with the compressed air to form elevated, increasedcombustion gases, which are then turned into mechanical power by the turbine. In order to makeelectricity and meet the world's energy needs, industrial gas turbines are major elements. Theyare exploited in combined cycle power plants, which produces electricity by burning fuel andexpanding the hot gases that emerge from the explosion through a turbine. The design of the gasturbine blades and cooling technologies must be modified if high levels of efficiency andperformance are to be attained.

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