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
Practitioners at utility companies and power and desalination plants involved in maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrades, supplier and contractor control, setup of risk management tools, owner procedures and manuals. Operators and subcontracting companies in charge of EPC, MRO, and other services involved in developing effective MRO procedures, optimizing unit and components life cycle, improving the efficiency, performance, and reliability of units, and integrating best practices across the business and technical processes. Related primary audiences include maintenance, repair and overhaul providers, auditors, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, consultants (e.g. failure investigators) and students.
Energy sector regulators, Policy makers and Insurance companies. Graduate and early career researchers in mechanical engineering, materials, and energy sciences.
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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Hiyam Farhat
Hiyam Farhat is an Engineering Manager and international energy expert with expertise in gas turbine Maintenance, Repairs and Overhauls (MRO). She holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Wright State University, USA, and has qualifications in Mechanical Design, Non-Destructive Testing (level III) from American Society of Non-destructive testing (ASNT), Radiation Safety, Weld and Brazing inspections from American Welding Society (AWS), and Industrial Controls & Troubleshooting. Her experience in the last two decades has mainly been in the aviation, oil and utilities sectors for industry leaders such as General Electric and Ansaldo Energia where she has contributed to upgrades, repair strategies and reliable life extension methods. She has worked on a vast range of Aero engines, heavy duty, light industrial and aeroderivative gas turbines. Her role as Engineering Manager has consolidated her knowledge in areas of metallurgy, special processes, advanced NDT, failure investigations, effective repair strategies and life extension methods.
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