Carbon foam - New generation of enhanced surface compact recuperators for gas turbines

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 1023-1028

  Yu, Q ^a   Thompson, B E ^b   Straatman, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon foam; Recuperator for micro turbine; Thermal engineering model

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOAM; RECUPERATOR FOR MICRO-TURBINES; THERMAL ENGINEERING MODELS;

CARBON; CORRELATION METHODS; GAS TURBINES; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECUPERATORS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FOAMS;

EID: 27744507694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2005-69007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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