5ME5: GAS TURBINES AND JET PROPULSION

 

 

Section A: Gas Turbine

  1. Gas Turbine Cycles: Ideal Cycles; open and closed cycles; constant pressure and constant volume cycles; intercooling, reheat and reheat with heat exchange; Ericksson cycle. Compounding - different shaft arrangements, special Applications of gas turbines such as industrial aircraft, marine. Gas turbines in power generation; combined cycle power generation

  2. Performance of Practical Gas Turbine Cycles: Compressor and turbine efficiencies; pressure losses; heat exchanger thermal ratio; mechanical losses; variation of specific heat; design point performance calculation for simple cycle. Factors affecting the performance, calculation of practical gas turbine cycles; polytropic efficiency; general performance of simple cycle with losses

  3. Gas Turbine cycles for aircraft propulsion: Criteria of Performance intake and [propelling nozzle efficiencies, simple turbojet cycle, turbofan engine, turboprop engine, thrust augmentation

  4. Centrifugal Compressors: Principal of operation; work done and pressure rise; slip diffuser. Design criterion; compressibility effects; non-dimensional quatities used for plotting compressor characteristics surging, choking and rotating stall gas Turbine

  5. Axial Fow Compressors:Basic constructional features; turbine v/s compressor blades; elementary theory; degree of reaction; vortex theory, simple design calculations; introduction to blade design; cascade test; compressibility effects; operating characteristics; stalling and surging polytropic efficiency, matching of compressure and turbine

  6. Axial Fow Turbines: Choice of blade profile. pitch and chord. stage and overall turbine performance; cooling of turbine blades; overall turbine performance: methods of improving part-loadperformance: matching procedures for twin-spool and turbofan engines: transient behaviour of gas turbine, principles of control systems.

List of Recommended Books:

  1. Gas Turbines Theory, H. Cohan, G.F.C. Roger and HIH Saravanama, Longman Scientific & Technical Pub., N.York

  2. Gas Turbines and Jet and Rocket Propulsion, M.L.Mathur and R.P.Sharma, Standard Publisher & Distributor, New Delhi