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Gas Turbines - A Handbook of Air, Land and Sea Applications
Claire Soares
Butterworth-Heinemann
April 2007
Hardcover 776 pp ISBN 9780750679695
£86.00
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No other current publication offers the professional engineer or technician the wealth of useful guidance on nearly
every aspect of gas turbine design, installation, operation, maintenance and repair as this bookdoes. Gas Turbines
makes the job of any engineer involved in the design, selection, operation and maintenance of most nearly any type
of gas turbine more efficient and more successful. The book offers the reader a 'big picture' view of how to make the
right decisions when planning what type of gas turbine to use for a particular application, taking into consideration not
only operational requirements but long-term life-cycle costs in upkeep and repair and future usage. Concise overviews
of all important theoretical bases in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics upon which gas turbine engines depend are
presented.
The author is an experienced industry consultant, with experience at such leading manufacturers of gas turbines as
GE and Rolls Royce and relates how factors affect proper design, correct selection and specifications, a nd long-term
successful operation for the application in question..
The book offers professional engineers hard-to-find manufacturer's data with extensive interpretation and explanation.
Of interest to professional Engineers in Mechanical Engineering, particularly those involved with energy systems,
and transportation systems that make use of gas turbines, such as marine engines; Aerospace Engineers involved
in propulsion systems with combustion engineering, Manufacturers of Gas Turbines, and related system, Quality
and Reliability Engineers in the industries and areas that make extensive use of gas turbine engines, Maintenance
Engineers; Machinists, and other related professionals who are charge with the upkeep and repair of gas turbine
engines.
Contents
- Gas turbines: An Introduction and Applications.
- History of gas turbines.
- Basic heat cycles of gas turbine applications
- Major components
- Cooling and load bearing systems
- Inlets, exhausts and noise suppression.
- Fuels
- Accessory systems
- Controls, Instrumentation and Diagnostics
- Gas turbine performance, performance testing and performance optimization
- Environmental technology
- Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
- Installation
- Manufacturing, materials
- The business of gas turbines
- Microturbines, Fuel cells and hybrids
- Education and training
- Future trends
- Basic design theory
- References and Resources
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