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Gas Turbine
flow path
CFD Assignment
Yashas C R
M.Tech II sem.
Aerospace Propulsion
14MT6PP003
IIAEM
CONTENTS
I.
Introduction
VI.
Conclusion
I. Introduction
Although the modern aircraft gas turbine engine has been developed into
a comparatively reliable and efficient means of propulsion, it still represents a
large proportion of the cost of operating an aircraft.
Now, more than ever, an engine relies on advanced technology in both
design and materials to achieve good fuel consumption and high power to
weight ratio, without compromising on acceptable reliability and noise.
However, the consequence of these advances is the significantly increased cost
of component parts. Operation at off-design conditions reduces the life of
these parts. Therefore, it is in the operators interest to detect and correct such
damaging situations as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Gas Path Analysis (GPA) is a proven method of monitoring engine
condition. However, the requirement for experienced personnel and specialized
equipment makes it non cost effective as an in house activity for many
operators.
Gas path analysis (GPA) is an effective method for determination of gas
turbine component condition from measured performance parameters. GPA is
widely applied on engine test rig data to isolate components responsible for
performance problems, thereby offering substantial cost saving potential.
Additional benefits can be obtained from the application of GPA to on-wing
engine data.
where
where HOT is the higher order terms of the expansion and can
be neglected when the performance deviation is small. Therefore, a linearized
gas turbine performance model can be expressed as the following equation:
For adaptive linear GPA method, the higher order terms of (2) are
neglected; thus the gas turbine performance model is expressed into the simple
form as (3). When performance deviation is small, adaptive linear GPA method
is able to provide accurate engine health status estimation. But when the engine
works at an operating condition which is far away from the design point, the
HOT becomes significant. In that case, adaptive linear GPA method may fail to
provide accurate estimation solutions.
At the same time, the influence coefficient matrix H is obtained from
engine model at a certain operating condition and the components performance
variations are not considered. Thus H maintains the same value even the
component performances deteriorate from initial healthy state. This may
decrease the GPA methods estimation accuracy. Li also developed an adaptive
nonlinear GPA method. It may increase the estimation accuracy by repeating the
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IV.
Almost from the inception of the gas turbine engine, airlines and
engine manufacturers have sought an effective technique to determine the health
of the gas-path components (fan, compressors, combustor, turbines) based on
available gas-path measurements. The potential of such tools to save money by
anticipating the need for overhaul and providing help in work scope definition is
substantial, provided they produce reliable results. One of the modern Gas Path
Analysis tool is TEMPER.
Originally developed in mid-1970s
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Figure 3 shows a flow chart of the basic Test Cell TEMPER algorithm.
The core of the software is an aero-thermodynamic engine cycle model. This
cycle model predicts the performance of the engine as a function of
environmental variables and engine power level. The model used in TEMPER
also accounts for deviation of the variable geometry (e.g., variable stators) from
nominal control schedules.
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After the base-line adjustment is made, the modified measurement-tocycle-deck differences represent two elements.
They are:
Module performance differences due to variation in the
Overhaul process,
Measurement noise.
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V.
CONCLUSION
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