Determining compressor wash programmes for fouled gas turbines

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 467-476

  Sanchez D ^a,b   Chacartegui, R ^a   Becerra, J A ^a   Sanchez T ^a  

^a Escuela Superior Ingenieros   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fouling; Offline; Online; Turbine; Washing

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; CASH FLOW; COMPRESSOR FOULING; DIFFERENT SIZES; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICITY PRICES; HAZARDOUS LOCATION; OFFLINE; ONLINE; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE DETERIORATION; TRIAL AND ERROR;

COMPRESSORS; FOULING; GAS TURBINES; LOCATION; SPECIFICATIONS; TURBOMACHINERY; WASHING;

ENGINES;

EID: 67650045677     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE723     Document Type: Article

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