In this study, an assessment of the performance of an industrial gas turbine during compressor fouling conditions is undertaken. The assessment is carried out through performance diagnostic and ...prognostic methods. The diagnostic technique identifies and isolates faults in the components of the gas turbine, and considers the health parameter of the compressor (efficiency). The remaining useful life of the compressor is estimated by a degradation model that also considers the compressor efficiency health index. Compressor efficiency is estimated using a gas turbine real-time executable digital-twin. The digital-twin is integrated within a gas turbine system operating in the field. Data processing of the compressor efficiency is required to obtain a meaningful trend of the compressor health index. Results demonstrate that the diagnostic and prognostic methods applied to the problem of compressor health parameter estimated by the digital-twin can be a powerful tool to initiate maintenance actions on associated axial compressors prior to significant performance deterioration.
In this study, a sensor fault diagnostic system to detect/isolate and accommodate faults in sensors from an industrial gas turbine has been developed. The sensor fault diagnostic module is integrated ...with a gas turbine real-time executable digital-twin (RT xDT) reported in a previous study. The sensor fault diagnostic module of the digital-twin considers analytical sensor redundancy using a reference engine model to provide redundant estimates of measured engine variables. A Software-in-the-Loop (S-i-L) architecture and Hardware-in-the-Loop (H-i-L) facility are constructed to assess the sensor diagnostic module (fault detection/ fault isolation) during failure in sensors from the engine. The results demonstrated that if the discrepancy between virtual measurement (provided by digital-twin) and sensor measurement exceeds the prescribed tolerance levels, the sensor fault diagnostic logic determines the state of switching between the virtual and engine sensor measurements in a dual lane control configuration of the gas turbine control system. The sensor fault detection system implemented in the gas turbine RT xDT can be deployed onto a distributed control system of industrial gas turbines to diagnose sensor deficiencies and ensure continuous and safe operation of the gas turbine. Consequently, the developed system will increase engine availability and reliability by diagnosing engine operational deficiencies before severe failure.
In this study, an assessment of degradation and failure modes in the gas-path components of twin-shaft industrial gas turbines (IGTs) has been carried out through a model-based analysis. Measurements ...from twin-shaft IGTs operated in the field and denoting reduction in engine performance attributed to compressor fouling conditions, hot-end blade turbine damage, and failure in the variable stator guide vane (VSGV) mechanism of the compressor have been considered for the analysis. The measurements were compared with simulated data from a thermodynamic model constructed in a Simulink environment, which predicts the physical parameters (pressure and temperature) across the different stations of the IGT. The model predicts engine health parameters, e.g., component efficiencies and flow capacities, which are not available in the engine field data. The results show that it is possible to simulate the change in physical parameters across the IGT during degradation and failure in the components by varying component efficiencies and flow capacities during IGT simulation. The results also demonstrate that the model can predict the measured field data attributed to failure in the gas-path components of twin-shaft IGTs. The estimated health parameters during degradation or failure in the gas-path components can assist the development of health-index prognostic methods for operational engine performance prediction.
In this study, the inter-stage dynamic performance of a multistage axial compressor is simulated through a semi-empirical model constructed in the Matlab Simulink environment. A semi-empirical 1-D ...compressor model developed in a previous study has been integrated with a 0-D twin-shaft gas turbine model developed in the Simulink environment. Inter-stage performance data generated through a high-fidelity design tool and based on throughflow analysis are considered for the development of the inter-stage modeling framework. Inter-stage performance data comprise pressure ratio at various speeds with nominal variable stator guide vane (VGV) positions and with hypothetical offsets to them with respect to the gas generator speed (GGS). Compressor discharge pressure, fuel flow demand, GGS and power turbine speed measured during the operation of a twin-shaft industrial gas turbine are considered for the dynamic model validation. The dynamic performance of the axial-compressor, simulated by the developed modeling framework, is represented on the overall compressor map and individual stage characteristic maps. The effect of extracting air through the bleed port in the engine center-casing on transient performance represented on overall compressor map and stage performance maps is also presented. In addition, the dynamic performance of the axial-compressor with an offset in VGV position is represented on the overall compressor map and individual stage characteristic maps. The study couples the fundamental principles of axial compressors and a semi-empirical modeling architecture in a complementary manner. The developed modeling framework can provide a deeper understanding of the factors that affect the dynamic performance of axial compressors.
The aim of the work presented in this thesis was to produce the improvement of the existing simulation tools used for the analysis of materials and structures, which are dynamically loaded and ...subjected to the different levels of temperatures and strain rates. The main objective of this work was development of tools for modelling of strain rate and temperature dependant behaviour of aluminium alloys, typical for aerospace structures with pronounced orthotropic properties, and their implementation in computer codes. Explicit finite element code DYNA3D has been chosen as numerical test-bed for implementation of new material models. Constitutive model with an orthotropic yield criterion, damage growth and failure mechanism has been developed and implemented into DYNA3D. Second important aspect of this work was development of relatively simple experimental methods for characterization of engineering materials, and extensive experimental work has been undertaken. Tensile test has been used for the characterisation of two aluminium alloys, at different levels of the strain rates and temperatures, and for three different orientations of materials. The results from these tests allowed derivation of material constants for constitutive models and lead to a better understanding of aluminium alloy behaviour. Procedures for derivation of parameters for temperature and strain rate dependant strength models were developed and parameters for constitutive relations were derived on the basis of uniaxial tensile tests. Taylor cylinder impact test was used as a validation experiment. This test was used to validate the implementation, and accuracy of material model in computer code. At the end of each incremental development, validation of the constitutive material model has been performed through numerical simulations of Taylor cylinder impact test, where simulation results have been compared with the experimental post-test geometries in terms of major and minor side profiles and impact-interface footprints. Plate impact test has been used to determine the material properties at high strain rate, and to investigate damage evolution in impact-loaded material. Initially the material model has been designed as a temperature and strain rate dependant strength model in a simple isotopic form, which then has been tested and verified against the experimental results. Coupling of the Hill’s orthotropic yield criterion with isotropic, temperature and strain rate dependant, hardening material model, has been chosen to suit the orthotropic behaviour. Method for calibration of orthotropic yield criterion has been developed and parameters have been identified for the orthotropic model under the associated flow rule assumption and in case of plane stress on the basis of tensile and cylinder impact tests. The complexity of the model has been further increased through coupling of hardening model with orthotropic yield criterion including damage evolution and failure criteria. The constitutive model was developed within the general framework of continuum thermodynamics for irreversible processes, and plate impact test and tensile tests have been used for determination of parameters for damage part of the new material model.
The aim of the work presented in this thesis was to produce the improvement of the existing simulation tools used for the analysis of materials and structures, which are dynamically loaded and ...subjected to the different levels of temperatures and strain rates. The main objective of this work was development of tools for modelling of strain rate and temperature dependant behaviour of aluminium alloys, typical for aerospace structures with pronounced orthotropic properties, and their implementation in computer codes. Explicit finite element code DYNA3D has been chosen as numerical test-bed for implementation of new material models. Constitutive model with an orthotropic yield criterion, damage growth and failure mechanism has been developed and implemented into DYNA3D. Second important aspect of this work was development of relatively simple experimental methods for characterization of engineering materials, and extensive experimental work has been undertaken. Tensile test has been used for the characterisation of two aluminium alloys, at different levels of the strain rates and temperatures, and for three different orientations of materials. The results from these tests allowed derivation of material constants for constitutive models and lead to a better understanding of aluminium alloy behaviour. Procedures for derivation of parameters for temperature and strain rate dependant strength models were developed and parameters for constitutive relations were derived on the basis of uniaxial tensile tests. Taylor cylinder impact test was used as a validation experiment. This test was used to validate the implementation, and accuracy of material model in computer code. At the end of each incremental development, validation of the constitutive material model has been performed through numerical simulations of Taylor cylinder impact test, where simulation results have been compared with the experimental post-test geometries in terms of major and minor side profiles and impact-interface footprints. Plate impact test has been used to determine the material properties at high strain rate, and to investigate damage evolution in impact-loaded material. Initially the material model has been designed as a temperature and strain rate dependant strength model in a simple isotopic form, which then has been tested and verified against the experimental results. Coupling of the Hill’s orthotropic yield criterion with isotropic, temperature and strain rate dependant, hardening material model, has been chosen to suit the orthotropic behaviour. Method for calibration of orthotropic yield criterion has been developed and parameters have been identified for the orthotropic model under the associated flow rule assumption and in case of plane stress on the basis of tensile and cylinder impact tests. The complexity of the model has been further increased through coupling of hardening model with orthotropic yield criterion including damage evolution and failure criteria. The constitutive model was developed within the general framework of continuum thermodynamics for irreversible processes, and plate impact test and tensile tests have been used for determination of parameters for damage part of the new material model.
The aim of the work presented in this thesis was to produce the improvement of the existing simulation tools used for the analysis of materials and structures, which are dynamically loaded and ...subjected to the different levels of temperatures and strain rates. The main objective of this work was development of tools for modelling of strain rate and temperature dependant behaviour of aluminium alloys, typical for aerospace structures with pronounced orthotropic properties, and their implementation in computer codes. Explicit finite element code DYNA3D has been chosen as numerical test-bed for implementation of new material models. Constitutive model with an orthotropic yield criterion, damage growth and failure mechanism has been developed and implemented into DYNA3D.
Second important aspect of this work was development of relatively simple experimental methods for characterization of engineering materials, and extensive experimental work has been undertaken. Tensile test has been used for the characterisation of two aluminium alloys, at different levels of the strain rates and temperatures, and for three different orientations of materials. The results from these tests allowed derivation of material constants for constitutive models and lead to a better understanding of aluminium alloy behaviour. Procedures for derivation of parameters for temperature and strain rate dependant strength models were developed and parameters for constitutive relations were derived on the basis of uniaxial tensile tests. Taylor cylinder impact test was used as a validation experiment. This test was used to validate the implementation, and accuracy of material model in computer code. At the end of each incremental development, validation of the constitutive material model has been performed through numerical simulations of Taylor cylinder impact test, where simulation results have been compared with the experimental post-test geometries in terms of major and minor side profiles and impact-interface footprints. Plate impact test has been used to determine the material properties at high strain rate, and to investigate damage evolution in impact-loaded material.
Initially the material model has been designed as a temperature and strain rate dependant strength model in a simple isotopic form, which then has been tested and verified against the experimental results. Coupling of the Hill’s orthotropic yield criterion with isotropic, temperature and strain rate dependant, hardening material model, has been chosen to suit the orthotropic behaviour. Method for calibration of orthotropic yield criterion has been developed and parameters have been identified for the orthotropic model under the associated flow rule assumption and in case of plane stress on the basis of tensile and cylinder impact tests. The complexity of the model has been further increased through coupling of hardening model with orthotropic yield criterion including damage evolution and failure criteria. The constitutive model was developed within the general framework of continuum thermodynamics for irreversible processes, and plate impact test and tensile tests have been used for determination of parameters for damage part of the new material model.
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The aim of the work presented in this thesis was to produce the improvement of the existing simulation tools used for the analysis of materials and structures, which are dynamically loaded ...and subjected to the different levels of temperatures and strain rates. The main objective of this work was development of tools for modelling of strain rate and temperature dependant behaviour of aluminium alloys, typical for aerospace structures with pronounced orthotropic properties, and their implementation in computer codes. Explicit finite element code DYNA3D has been chosen as numerical test-bed for implementation of new material models. Constitutive model with an orthotropic yield criterion, damage growth and failure mechanism has been developed and implemented into DYNA3D.
Second important aspect of this work was development of relatively simple experimental methods for characterization of engineering materials, and extensive experimental work has been undertaken. Tensile test has been used for the characterisation of two aluminium alloys, at different levels of the strain rates and temperatures, and for three different orientations of materials. The results from these tests allowed derivation of material constants for constitutive models and lead to a better understanding of aluminium alloy behaviour. Procedures for derivation of parameters for temperature and strain rate dependant strength models were developed and parameters for constitutive relations were derived on the basis of uniaxial tensile tests. Taylor cylinder impact test was used as a validation experiment. This test was used to validate the implementation, and accuracy of material model in computer code. At the end of each incremental development, validation of the constitutive material model has been performed through numerical simulations of Taylor cylinder impact test, where simulation results have been compared with the experimental post-test geometries in terms of major and minor side profiles and impact-interface footprints. Plate impact test has been used to determine the material properties at high strain rate, and to investigate damage evolution in impact-loaded material.
Initially the material model has been designed as a temperature and strain rate dependant strength model in a simple isotopic form, which then has been tested and verified against the experimental results. Coupling of the Hill’s orthotropic yield criterion with isotropic, temperature and strain rate dependant, hardening material model, has been chosen to suit the orthotropic behaviour. Method for calibration of orthotropic yield criterion has been developed and parameters have been identified for the orthotropic model under the associated flow rule assumption and in case of plane stress on the basis of tensile and cylinder impact tests. The complexity of the model has been further increased through coupling of hardening model with orthotropic yield criterion including damage evolution and failure criteria. The constitutive model was developed within the general framework of continuum thermodynamics for irreversible processes, and plate impact test and tensile tests have been used for determination of parameters for damage part of the new material model.
In this paper, an off-design performance prediction model for a single shaft industrial gas turbine (IGT) using Microsoft Excel with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming is presented. The ...modelling architecture is comprised of fundamental thermodynamic equations describing the performance of IGTs. A graphical user interface has been constructed to allow an easy interaction of the model to predict IGT performance at different operating conditions. Component characteristic maps for the compressor and turbine with a bilinear interpolation method have been implemented in the Excel modelling architecture. A commercial thermodynamic toolbox (Thermolib, EUtech Scientific Engineering GmbH) which is compatible with Simulink environment has been considered to validate Excel model of the IGT system. This Excel modelling architecture could be a valuable reference tool for engineers and students to understand IGT performance at different ambient and operating conditions.
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