
Operation, Maintenance, and Repair of Land-Based Gas Turbines
- 1st Edition - June 16, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Hiyam Farhat
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 8 3 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 8 3 5 - 8
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Request a sales quoteOperation, Maintenance, and Repair of Land-Based Gas Turbines provides a toolkit for practitioners seeking to make technoeconomic decisions on life extension of power turbine equipment. The work describes essential degradation modes affecting critical components and proven methods of restoration. Sections discuss key elements of life extensions for aging units and components, together with critical reviews of available methodologies. Coverage includes advanced nondestructive testing methods essential for effective life extension programs, including lessons learned from firsthand experience working with multiple machine designs, classes and operating conditions.
The final sections cover a body of solutions intended to refocus ORM processes on overcoming the shortfalls caused by volatilities and system restructuring.
- Reviews best practices for practitioners seeking to make decisions on gas turbine maintenance, repair and operations
- Analyzes components and major sections in terms of functionality, critical features, residual properties and service caused damages
- Explains the applicability and limitations of special processes and advanced non-destructive testing methods
Energy sector regulators, Policy makers and Insurance companies. Graduate and early career researchers in mechanical engineering, materials, and energy sciences.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Author biography
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to gas turbines (GTs)
- Abstract
- History and background
- Application and categories
- Working principles
- Ratings, performance, and classes
- Efficiency and its improvement methods
- Construction, systems, and primary sections
- Design and geometric scaling
- Chapter 2: Critical gas turbine components: Blades and vanes
- Abstract
- Vanes (turbine section)
- Blades
- Chapter 3: Materials and coating technologies
- Abstract
- Superalloys
- Titanium (Ti) and aluminum (Al) alloys
- Novel materials
- Materials: Properties and testing
- Coatings: Technologies and processes
- Chapter 4: Maintenance: Availability and reliability
- Abstract
- Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis
- Prognosis
- Performance deterioration
- Operation factors
- Chapter 5: Typical service-induced damages
- Abstract
- Damage cause-effect analysis
- Cyclic-induced degradation mechanisms
- Time-dependent degradation mechanisms
- Operating environment: Contaminants and reactions
- Temperature-dependent degradation mechanism
- Chapter 6: Processes and technologies for GT components: Repair and manufacturing
- Abstract
- Cleaning
- Heat treatment (HT)
- Joining
- Material cutting processes
- Material removal processes
- Manufacturing methods
- Chapter 7: NDT processes: Applications and limitations
- Abstract
- History of NDT’s industrial application
- The detection and interpretation process
- Probability of detection
- Choice of NDT method
- Chapter 8: Lifetime extension: Assessment and considerations
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Life extension
- Residual life assessment
- Chapter 9: Failure analysis
- Abstract
- Introduction to failure and fracture
- Gas turbines’ typical causes of failures
- Gas turbines’ possible failure modes and mechanisms
- Failure analysis: Tools and methodologies
- Fracture failure investigation process
- Historical failure cases and lessons learned
- Chapter 10: Gas turbines and sustainable growth
- Abstract
- GT businesses and technical aspects
- Supplementary and alternative energy solutions
- Strategies for sustainable growth
- Economics
- Summary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 16, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 276
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128218341
- eBook ISBN: 9780128218358
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