Development of high intensity CDC combustor for gas turbine engines

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 963-973

  Arghode, Vaibhav K ^a   Gupta, Ashwani K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorless distributed combustion; Diffusion and premixed combustion; Distributed combustion; Gas turbine combustion; Performance improvement of gas turbine combustion; Towards zero emission combustion

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTORS; FLOW VELOCITY; FUEL INJECTION; FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS TURBINES; GASES; IGNITION; INDUSTRIAL FURNACES; MIXING; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL LOAD;

FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR; GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE AIR COMBUSTION; INJECTION TEMPERATURE; PREMIXED COMBUSTION; STATIONARY GAS TURBINES; ZERO EMISSION;

COMBUSTION;

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; DIAMETER; ENGINE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NITRIC OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE EFFECT; TURBINE; TURBULENT MIXING; VOLUME;

EID: 78149362229     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.07.038     Document Type: Article

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