Gas Turbines Structural Properties, Operation Principles and Design Features

Kun Liu, professor, graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a master's degree in naval architecture and ocean engineering. He is currently the head of the Department of naval architecture at the School of naval architecture and ocean engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. His primary research interests are in structure strength analyse, structure dynamic response and lightweight functional structure design. He has participated in a number of research projects. Daifen Chen，Professor，Vice Dean and Professor of the School of Energy and Power; Director of the International Joint Laboratory of Ship Green Power and Emission Control of Jiangsu，the Member of the China Renewable Energy Society Hydrogen Energy Special Committee; Member of High Temperature Fuel Cell Standardization Technical Committee of China Energy Industry; Member of National New Energy Science and Engineering Alliance Council; Review Editor for thejournal“Frontiers in Chemistry”; and Reviewer for over 30 academic journals. He had published more than 40 SCI papers in the fist-class academic journals, such as the ACS Energy Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, AIChE Journal, Applied Energy, J Power Sources and so on.

Power generation market for gas turbines.- General information about turbine design and operation.- Thermodynamic basics of the turbine theory.- Flow in the plane turbine channels.- Features of the actual profile flow. Cascade loss classification.- Gas turbine engine classification.- Simple cycle gas turbine units.- The features of GTU thermal calculation.- Thermal calculation of the simple cycle gas turbine unit.- Advantages and disadvantages of the power plants with gas turbine units.- Combined marine power plants with gas turbine engines.- Design and operation of the gas turbine parts. Inlet casings of the gas turbine unit.- Compressor part of the gas turbine unit.- Compression work and efficiency of the compressor stage.- Combustion chambers of the gas turbine units.- Turbine part of the gas turbine units.- Improving of the efficiency of the gas turbine units.