GRADED ASSIGNMENT -1

Name:- Pawan kumar gupta

B.tech( mechanical)
B-2
7th sem

GAS TURBINE AND JET PROPULSION

Q.1Explain the parameters that affect the thermal efficiency of a gas

turbine?
Ans:Gas turbine site performance is directly affected by inlet air density and
air environmental conditions. The effects of inlet air density on produced
power and heat rate are:
A given engine design limits air volume flow capacity
Produced power is a function of actual energy extracted per pound
of vapor and mass flow of vapor

For a given engine therefore, produced power varies directly with

inlet air density

Produced power does become limited by low volume (stall and

surge) flow
Care must be taken when selecting gas turbines to ensure sufficient
shaft power is available at high temperature conditions and fouled inlet
conditions, and gas turbine applications tend to be fully loaded since
gas turbines (unlike steam turbines) are not custom designed.

For a gas turbine, the vapor condition depends on the type of fuel used
and the atmospheric conditions. This is because the inlet to the gas
turbine engine is from the atmosphere, and any change in temperature,
humidity or pressure will affect the mass flow into, and consequently the
power produced by the gas turbine. The gas turbine cycle (Brayton) is
open.
Q.2 Draw the schematic diagram of simple gas turbine cycle with inter
cooler , heat exchanger and reheat?
ANS:-

HEAT EXCHANGER

INTERCOOLERT

REHEAT

Q3.What is Heat Exchanger effectiveness?

ANS:- The Number of Transfer Units (NTU) Method is used to calculate

the rate of heat transfer in heat exchangers (especially counter
current exchangers) when there is insufficient information to calculate
the Log-Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD). In heat exchanger analysis,
if the fluid inlet and outlet temperatures are specified or can be determined
by simple energy balance, the LMTD method can be used; but when these
temperatures are not available The NTU or The Effectiveness method is
used.
A quantity:

The effectiveness(E), is the ratio between the actual heat transfer rate
and the maximum possible heat transfer rate:

where:
Effectiveness is dimensionless quantity between 0 and 1. If we
know E for a particular heat exchanger, and we know the inlet
conditions of the two flow streams we can calculate the amount of
heat being transferred between the fluids by:
For any heat exchanger it can be shown that:

For a given geometry, can be calculated using

correlations in terms of the "heat capacity ratio"

and the number of transfer units,

where is the overall heat transfer coefficient and

transfer area.

is the heat

For example, the effectiveness of a parallel flow

heat exchanger is calculated with:

Or the effectiveness of a counter-current flow

heat exchanger is calculated with:

For