Gas Turbines

M/16

Course Objectives

• Provide participants with full understanding of the different types of gas turbines, their design features components and characteristics
• Familiarize participants with the efficient operations and maintenance schemes of gas turbines that reduce losses to the minimum 

Course Modules

Module 1: Introduction

• Open cycle single shaft and twin shaft arrangements
• Compounding
• Closed cycles
• Aircraft propulsion
• Applications
• Gas turbine design procedure

Module 2: Shaft Power Cycles 

• Ideal cycles
• Methods of accounting for component losses
• Design points performance calculations
• Comparative performance of practical cycles

Module 3: Compressors

• Centrifugal compressors
• Axial flow compressors

Module 4: Combustion Systems

• Form of combustion system
• Some important factors affecting combustion chamber design
• The combustion process
• Combustion chamber performance
• Some practical problems

Module 5: Prediction of Performance of simple Gas Turbines

• Component characteristics
• Off-design operation of the single-shaft gas turbine
• Equilibrium running of gas generator
• Off-design operation of free turbine engine
• Off-design operation of the jet engine
• Methods of displacing the equilibrium running line
• Incorporation of variable pressure losses

Module 6: Prediction of Performance

• Methods of improving part-load performance
• Matching procedures for twin-spool engines

• Some notes on the behavior of twin-spool engines
• Matching procedures for turbofan engines
• Transient behavior of gas turbines

Target Audience

Engineers, Supervisors, technicians and foremen