This comprehensive, best-selling reference provides the fundamental information you'll need to understand both the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The full spectrum of hardware, as well as typical application scenarios are fully explored, along with operating parameters, controls, inlet and exhaust treatments, inspection, troubleshooting, noise control, inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. This latest edition includes a new chapter on microturbines and additional case studies. The author has provided many helpful tips that will enable diagnosis of problems in their early stages and analysis of failures to prevent their recurrence. Also treated are the effects of the external environment on gas turbines operation and life, as well as the impact of the gas turbine on its surrounding environment.
- ISBN10 0849390567
- ISBN13 9780849390562
- Publish Date 30 March 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor & Francis Inc
- Edition 3rd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 437
- Language English