This paper presents a design approach of air foil bearings (AFBs) for a 120 kWe gas turbine generator, which is a single spool configuration with gas generator turbine and alternator rotor connected by a diaphragm coupling. A total of four radial AFBs support the two rotors, and one set of double acting thrust foil bearing is located inside the gas generator turbine. The rotor configuration results in eight degree of freedom (DOF) rotordynamic motions, which are two cylindrical modes and two conical modes from the two rotors. Stiffness of bump foils of candidate AFB was estimated from measured structural stiffness of the bearing, and implemented to the computational model for linear stiffness and damping coefficients of the bearing and frequency-domain modal impedances for cylindrical and conical modes. Stiffness of the diaphragm coupling was evaluated using finite element analysis and implemented to nonlinear rotordynamic analyses of the entire engine. Analyses show the conical mode of the turbine rotor is the main source of instability of the entire engine when AFB clearance is not selected properly. Optimum AFB clearance is suggested from frequency domain modal analyses and nonlinear transient analyses.
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March 2014
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Evaluation of Foil Bearing Performance and Nonlinear Rotordynamics of 120 kW Oil-Free Gas Turbine Generator
Bum Seog Choi
Bum Seog Choi
e-mail: bschoi@kimm.re.kr
Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
,104 Shinsungro, Yuseonggu
,Daejon City 305-600
, Korea
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Daejong Kim
An Sung Lee
e-mail: aslee@kimm.re.kr
Bum Seog Choi
e-mail: bschoi@kimm.re.kr
Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
,104 Shinsungro, Yuseonggu
,Daejon City 305-600
, Korea
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Contributed by the Structures and Dynamics Committee of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER. Manuscript received August 29, 2013; final manuscript received August 30, 2013; published online November 27, 2013. Editor: David Wisler.
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Mar 2014, 136(3): 032504 (8 pages)
Published Online: November 27, 2013
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Kim, D., Lee, A. S., and Choi, B. S. (November 27, 2013). "Evaluation of Foil Bearing Performance and Nonlinear Rotordynamics of 120 kW Oil-Free Gas Turbine Generator." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. March 2014; 136(3): 032504. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025898
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