...Hany Bassily; Mohammed F. Daqaq; John Wagner The transition between two operational modes in a dynamic system often occurs under strict measures such that repeatability is more a target than a metric for performance evaluations. The concept of Poincaré maps may be applied to health monitoring...

... performance evaluation gas turbines evaporation cooling water mechanical engineering coolants Inlet fog boost (IFB) is now commonplace as means of boosting the power output from industrial gas turbines, with a variety of bolt-on kits commercially available. Typical water injection rates...

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...Dennis N. Assanis, Associate Editor 29 04 2003 internal combustion engines ignition emission wear tribology fuel road vehicles performance evaluation Almost one and a half centuries since it became a practical reality, the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) remains today...

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... 09 2002 solid oxide fuel cells gas turbines power systems performance evaluation The pressurized SOFC/GT hybrid cycle power system is depicted schematically simplified in Fig. 1 . 1 PSOFC/GT hybrid power system cycle—simplified schematic The SOFC generator...

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...; Paper 01-GT-092. Manuscript received by ITGI, Dec. 2000, final revision, Mar. 2001. Associate Editor: R. Natole. 04 June 2001 01 Dec 2000 01 Mar 2001 24 09 2002 solid oxide fuel cells power systems gas turbines design for manufacture performance evaluation simulation...

... performance evaluation Use of monitoring systems for assessing the condition of a gas turbine and its components is widespread today. Such systems provide substantial information, which helps, on one hand, minimizing outages and on the other hand optimizing engine usage. It is thus desirable...

... flow gas turbines performance evaluation pressure In the series arrangement, the compressors are designed to compress the full station flow of 391 * 10 3 Nm 3 / h (350 mmscfd) at approximately half of the total required head. The low pressure (LP) compressor...

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... be found in many textbooks. gas turbine power stations performance evaluation electric power generation 01 10 2000 01 08 2001 26 03 2002 Contributed by the Turbomachinery Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication...

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... and Exhibition, Munich, Germany, May 8–11, 2000; Paper 00-GT-174. Manuscript received by IGTI, Nov. 1999; final revision received by ASME Headquarters, Feb. 2001. Associate Editor: D. R. Ballal. 01 Nov 1999 01 Feb 2001 molten carbonate fuel cells performance evaluation steam electrochromic...

... by the ICE Division Apr. 2000; final revision received by the ASME Headquarters Jan. 2001. Associate Editor: D. Assanis. 01 Apr 2000 01 Jan 2001 internal combustion engines performance evaluation power plants thermal barrier coatings combustion fuel optimal control Past efforts...

... pollution control performance evaluation The goal of the next generation of gas turbine combustors is to reduce NO x emissions to meet regulatory levels that cannot be attained with present-day conventional combustors. In conventional gas turbine combustors, thermal NO x...

... AND POWER . Manuscript received by the ICE Division Dec. 6, 2000; final revision received by the ASME Headquarters Dec. 7, 2000. Associate Editor: D. Assanis. 06 Dec 2000 07 Dec 2000 internal combustion engines fuel organic compounds sprays jets modelling automobiles performance...