GAS Turbine Combustion THIRD EDITION

  English | 2010 | 537 pages | PDF | 12.02 Mb

Developments in gas turbine technology continue to meet the propulsion, power, fuel efficiency, and low pollutant emissions needs of the twentyfirst century. Ten years have passed since the publication of the second edition, which continues to be widely used in many parts of the world.
Professor Arthur Lefebvre passed away in 2003. Last year, when the publisher approached me with a proposal for preparing the third edition, I could not refuse. After all, Professor Lefebvre was my teacher, friend, and a coresearcher for 35 years; I was involved in numerous discussions during the
writing of the first and second editions; and finally, I learned a great deal from all the material presented in the book.
The book has a clear purpose; it is directed primarily toward those who design, manufacture, and operate gas turbines in applications ranging from aeronautical to power generation. It serves as a graduate-level textbook, design manual, and research reference in the field of gas turbine combustion.
The text is essentially self-contained and assumes only a modest prior knowledge of physics and chemistry. In preparation for the twenty-first century, the second edition was thoroughly revised and updated with numerous changes.
As I examined each chapter of the second edition, I found the text as upto-date and refreshing as ever, proving that improvements in gas turbine combustion have been gradual and evolutionary. So minimum revisions were required in the areas of multifuel capabilities, flame flashback, high
off-design combustion efficiency, and liner failure studies with reduced film cooling. In the quest to achieve higher fuel efficiency and decrease carbon dioxide emissions, compressor pressure ratios and turbine inlet temperatures gradually increased in the last decade. Yet gaseous and particulate
emissions decreased by one third or more and are well below the emissions regulations in effect as of July 2006. Thus, Chapter 9 on emissions was updated.
The most significant change has been the addition of a new Chapter 10, “Alternative Fuels” and the book’s subtitle Alternative Fuels and Emissions.Today, the ever-rising cost of petroleum fuel is prompting research into developing alternative liquid fuels based on coal, biomass, and other feedstock.
Depleting global resources of petroleum fuel combined with increasing terrorist activities
are leading various industrialized and developing countries to develop domestic sources of fuel for assured supply and energy security.
These domestically produced alternative fuels have to be capable of using the available infrastructure of fuel refining, transportation, distribution, and consumption. The future of the alternative fuel industry in the forthcoming decade depends upon the right fuel properties and handling characteristicsfor the engines and infrastructure already in place; environmental impact, which includes competition with food, water, and land; CO2 life cycle analysis and carbon footprint issues; and economics of return on investment, production, and sustainability...

GAS Turbine Combustion_THIRD EDITION