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Compressor fouling modeling / Francesco Melino in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power, Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) . - 08 p. Titre : Compressor fouling modeling : relationship between computational roughness and gas turbine operation time Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Francesco Melino, Auteur ; Mirko Morini, Auteur ; Antonio Peretto, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : 08 p. Note générale : Génie mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Blades  Compressors  Computational  fluid  dynamics  Gas  turbines  Surface  roughness Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : Gas turbine axial compressor performance is heavily influenced by blade fouling. As a result, the gas turbines efficiency and producible power output decrease. Performance degradation of an axial compressor stage due to fouling can be analyzed by means of simulation through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. Usually these methods reproduce the deteriorated blades by increasing their surface roughness and thickness. Another approach is the scaling of compressor stage performance maps. A model based on stage-by-stage techniques was presented in a previous work. This model is able to estimate the modifications of the overall compressor performance map as a function of the operating hours. The aim of the present study is to combine these two different approaches in order to relate the increase of blade computational surface roughness with compressor operating hours. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://asmedl.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ000134000005 [...] [article] Compressor fouling modeling : relationship between computational roughness and gas turbine operation time [texte imprimé] / Francesco Melino, Auteur ; Mirko Morini, Auteur ; Antonio Peretto, Auteur . - 2012 . - 08 p. Génie mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) . - 08 p. Mots-clés : Blades  Compressors  Computational  fluid  dynamics  Gas  turbines  Surface  roughness Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : Gas turbine axial compressor performance is heavily influenced by blade fouling. As a result, the gas turbines efficiency and producible power output decrease. Performance degradation of an axial compressor stage due to fouling can be analyzed by means of simulation through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. Usually these methods reproduce the deteriorated blades by increasing their surface roughness and thickness. Another approach is the scaling of compressor stage performance maps. A model based on stage-by-stage techniques was presented in a previous work. This model is able to estimate the modifications of the overall compressor performance map as a function of the operating hours. The aim of the present study is to combine these two different approaches in order to relate the increase of blade computational surface roughness with compressor operating hours. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://asmedl.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ000134000005 [...]

Computational fluid dynamics simulation of fouling on axial compressor stages / Mirko Morini in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power, Vol. 132 N° 7 (Juillet 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 132 N° 7 (Juillet 2010) . - 10 p. Titre : Computational fluid dynamics simulation of fouling on axial compressor stages Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mirko Morini, Auteur ; Michele Pinelli, Auteur ; Pier Ruggero Spina, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : 10 p. Note générale : Génie Mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Compressors  Computational  fluid  dynamics  Gas  turbines  Maintenance  engineering  Numerical  analysis  Surface  roughness Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the effect of fouling on an axial compressor stage were carried out. As a case study, the NASA Stage 37 was considered for the numerical investigation, which was performed by means of a commercial computational fluid dynamic code. The numerical model was validated against the experimental data available from literature. Computed performance maps and main flow field features showed a good agreement with the experimental data. The model was considered representative of a realistic compressor stage. The model was then used to simulate the occurrence of fouling by imposing different combinations of added thickness and surface roughness levels. The effect of fouling on compressor performances was studied. Reductions in the flow coefficient and in the pressure coefficient were found to be of the same order of magnitude of the experimental results found in literature. The model developed seems to overcome some of the limitations of other models found in literature that tend to significantly underestimate the actual values of performance reduction. The numerical results were also used to analyze and debug the stage performance scaling procedure used in stage-stacking models in order to represent fouling in multistage compressors. The analysis highlighted that scaling can adequately represent the behavior of the fouled stage in the choked flow region, but it does not capture the reduction in the maximum of the pressure coefficient, which is instead revealed by the numerical simulations. Finally, blockage due to fouling was investigated both qualitatively and quantitatively. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ00013 [...] [article] Computational fluid dynamics simulation of fouling on axial compressor stages [texte imprimé] / Mirko Morini, Auteur ; Michele Pinelli, Auteur ; Pier Ruggero Spina, Auteur . - 2011 . - 10 p. Génie Mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 132 N° 7 (Juillet 2010) . - 10 p. Mots-clés : Compressors  Computational  fluid  dynamics  Gas  turbines  Maintenance  engineering  Numerical  analysis  Surface  roughness Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the effect of fouling on an axial compressor stage were carried out. As a case study, the NASA Stage 37 was considered for the numerical investigation, which was performed by means of a commercial computational fluid dynamic code. The numerical model was validated against the experimental data available from literature. Computed performance maps and main flow field features showed a good agreement with the experimental data. The model was considered representative of a realistic compressor stage. The model was then used to simulate the occurrence of fouling by imposing different combinations of added thickness and surface roughness levels. The effect of fouling on compressor performances was studied. Reductions in the flow coefficient and in the pressure coefficient were found to be of the same order of magnitude of the experimental results found in literature. The model developed seems to overcome some of the limitations of other models found in literature that tend to significantly underestimate the actual values of performance reduction. The numerical results were also used to analyze and debug the stage performance scaling procedure used in stage-stacking models in order to represent fouling in multistage compressors. The analysis highlighted that scaling can adequately represent the behavior of the fouled stage in the choked flow region, but it does not capture the reduction in the maximum of the pressure coefficient, which is instead revealed by the numerical simulations. Finally, blockage due to fouling was investigated both qualitatively and quantitatively. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ00013 [...]

Numerical analysis of the effects of nonuniform surface roughness on compressor stage performance / Mirko Morini in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power, Vol. 133 N° 7 (Juillet 2011) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 133 N° 7 (Juillet 2011) . - 08 p. Titre : Numerical analysis of the effects of nonuniform surface roughness on compressor stage performance Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mirko Morini, Auteur ; Michele Pinelli, Auteur ; Pier Ruggero Spina, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : 08 p. Note générale : Turbines à gaz Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Blades  Compressors  Gas  turbines  Geometry  Numerical  analysis  Surface  roughness Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : Gas turbine performance degradation over time is mainly due to the deterioration of compressor and turbine blades, which, in turn, causes a modification of the compressor and turbine performance maps. Since the detailed information about the actual modification of the compressor and turbine performance maps is usually unavailable, the component performance can be modeled and investigated by the following: scaling the overall performance map, using stage-by-stage models of the compressor and turbine, and scaling each single stage performance map to account for each stage deterioration, or performing 3D numerical simulations, which allow to both highlight the fluid-dynamic phenomena occurring in the faulty component and grasp the effect on the overall performance of each affected component. In this paper, the authors address the most common and experienced source of loss for a gas turbine, i.e., compressor fouling. With respect to the traditional approach, which mainly aims at the identification of the overall effects of fouling, authors investigate a microscale representation of compressor fouling (i.e., blade surface deterioration and flow deviation). This allows (i) a more detailed investigation of the fouling effects (e.g., mechanism, location along blade height, etc.), (ii) a more extensive analysis of the causes of performance deterioration, and (iii) the assessment of the effect of fouling on stage performance coefficients and on stage performance maps. In this paper, the effect of nonuniform surface roughness on both rotor and stator blades of an axial compressor stage is investigated by using a commercial CFD code. The NASA Stage 37 test case is considered as the baseline geometry and a numerical model already validated against experimental data available in literature is used for the simulations. Different nonuniform combinations of surface roughness levels are imposed on rotor and stator blades. This makes it possible to highlight how the localization of fouling on compressor blades affects compressor performance both at an overall and at a fluid-dynamic level. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://asmedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ00013300 [...] [article] Numerical analysis of the effects of nonuniform surface roughness on compressor stage performance [texte imprimé] / Mirko Morini, Auteur ; Michele Pinelli, Auteur ; Pier Ruggero Spina, Auteur . - 2011 . - 08 p. Turbines à gaz Langues : Anglais (eng) in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 133 N° 7 (Juillet 2011) . - 08 p. Mots-clés : Blades  Compressors  Gas  turbines  Geometry  Numerical  analysis  Surface  roughness Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : Gas turbine performance degradation over time is mainly due to the deterioration of compressor and turbine blades, which, in turn, causes a modification of the compressor and turbine performance maps. Since the detailed information about the actual modification of the compressor and turbine performance maps is usually unavailable, the component performance can be modeled and investigated by the following: scaling the overall performance map, using stage-by-stage models of the compressor and turbine, and scaling each single stage performance map to account for each stage deterioration, or performing 3D numerical simulations, which allow to both highlight the fluid-dynamic phenomena occurring in the faulty component and grasp the effect on the overall performance of each affected component. In this paper, the authors address the most common and experienced source of loss for a gas turbine, i.e., compressor fouling. With respect to the traditional approach, which mainly aims at the identification of the overall effects of fouling, authors investigate a microscale representation of compressor fouling (i.e., blade surface deterioration and flow deviation). This allows (i) a more detailed investigation of the fouling effects (e.g., mechanism, location along blade height, etc.), (ii) a more extensive analysis of the causes of performance deterioration, and (iii) the assessment of the effect of fouling on stage performance coefficients and on stage performance maps. In this paper, the effect of nonuniform surface roughness on both rotor and stator blades of an axial compressor stage is investigated by using a commercial CFD code. The NASA Stage 37 test case is considered as the baseline geometry and a numerical model already validated against experimental data available in literature is used for the simulations. Different nonuniform combinations of surface roughness levels are imposed on rotor and stator blades. This makes it possible to highlight how the localization of fouling on compressor blades affects compressor performance both at an overall and at a fluid-dynamic level. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://asmedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ00013300 [...]