Gas turbines have these advantages over steam plants:

Gas Turbine Power Plant

They are small in size, mass, and initial cost per unit output.
Their delivery time is relatively short and they can be installed
quickly.

Dr. M. Zahurul Haq

They are quick starting (as low as 10 s), often by remote control.
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

They are smooth running and have a capacity factor (percent of

time the unit is operating at full power) of 96 to 98 percent.
They can use a wide variety of liquid and gaseous fuels including
gasified coal and synthetic fuels.

zahurul@me.buet.ac.bd
http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/zahurul/

They are subject to fewer environmental restrictions than other

prime movers.

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Schematic layout of a single-shaft gas turbine.

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A comparison between the working cycle of a turbo-jet engine and a

piston engine.

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Schematic layout of a two-shaft gas turbine.

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Representation of a simple
cycle gas turbine.

Representation of gas turbine cycle on

temperature-entropy diagram.

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Effect of pressure ratio on the temperature-entropy diagram for an ideal

gas turbine cycle when T3 is constant.

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Schematic representation of a
regenerative cycle.

Variation of thermal efficiency and specific work with compressor

pressure ratio.

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Heat transfer for a regenerative

gas turbine cycle.

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Effect of T4 and pressure ratio on the thermal efficiency of a regenerative

cycle. The limiting pressure ratios when T5 = T2 are shown.

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T410

Ideal and actual compression and expansion processes on the

temperature-entropy diagram.

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T411

Variation of the isentropic efficiency with pressure ratio for a polytropic

efficiency of 0.87.

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Combustion temperature rise versus fuel-air ratio.

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T413

Simple gas turbine thermal efficiency varying with pressure ratio.

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Performance of a practical simple gas turbine cycle as a carpet plot for a

series of maximum cycle temperatures and pressure ratios.

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Schematic representation of an intercooled gas turbine.

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T419

Carpet plot for a regenerative gas turbine cycle.

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Two-stage intercooled compression process on the temperature-entropy

diagram.
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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Variation of thermal efficiency with specific work for a practical

intercooled gas turbine when optimised for maximum thermal efficiency.

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Schematic representation of an intercooled, regenerative gas turbine

cycle.

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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T422

Temperature-entropy diagram for the intercooled and nonintercooled,

regenerative gas turbine cycles.

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Variation of thermal efficiency with specific work for a practical

intercooled, regenerative gas turbine cycle

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Variation of thermal efficiency with specific work when optimised for

maximum thermal efficiency.

Schematic representation of a reheat gas turbine.

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Schematic representation of a reheat-regenerative gas turbine.

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Schematic representation of an intercooled, reheat and regenerative cycle.

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Thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles

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Variation of thermal efficiency with specific work for practical

intercooled, reheat and regenerative (ICRHR) cycle.

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