Gast turbines basics

Gas turbines are widely used for aircraft propulsion, land-based

power generation,
and industrial applications. To increase the efficiency of gas
turbine inlet temperature
should be as high as possible. The turbine inlet temperatures in
modern gas turbines
are far above the permissible metal temperatures. This in turn
increases the thermal
loading to the blade, leading to a high local temperature and thus,
is considered one of
the primary sources of blade failure. Therefore the blades are
cooled for safe
operation. Modern developments in turbine cooling technology
play a critical role in
increasing the thermal efficiency and power output of advanced
gas turbine designs.
Turbine blades and vanes are cooled internally and externally.
Two dimensional and
three dimensional models are created and simulated for analysis
purpose. Numerical
study is performed to understand the behaviour of temperature
distribution on the
blade with and without cooling after validation with experimental
work. It is seen that
there is a high temperature region in blade near the leading edge
due to stagnation
point and near the trailing edge due to less thickness. To combat
these high
temperature, various combination of cooling methods are
simulated. Also the
comparison is made for temperature distribution on blade
periphery at different
turbine inlet temperature based on the results obtained.