Blade cooling improvement for heavy duty gas turbine: The air coolant temperature reduction and the introduction of steam and mixed steam/air cooling

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 74-84

  Facchini, Bruno ^a   Ferrara, Giovanni ^b   Innocenti, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air cooling; Blade cooling systems; Gas turbine; High efficiency system; Steam cooling; Water injection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033632839     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0729(00)00194-X     Document Type: Article

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