April 2012
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 26m
English
P. Chiesa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
This chapter is devoted to gas turbine cycles where water vapor is mixed with air to increase specific power output and efficiency. Basic configurations like steam injected, recuperative water injected and humid air turbine cycles are considered. Mass and thermal balances are reported for each plant, thermodynamic merits and technological drawbacks are illustrated and their performance compared on the basis of homogeneous assumptions. Problems related to operating commercial gas turbine engines in humidified air cycles are also discussed.
Key words
steam injected gas turbine cycles
recuperated water injected cycles
humid air turbine cycles
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