Combustion instabilities in industrial gas turbines -measurements on operating plant and thermoacoustic modelling

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages

  Hobson, David E ^a   Fackrell, John E ^a   Hewitt, G ^a  

^a Power Technology Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BANDWIDTH; COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; FUEL SYSTEMS; FUELS; GAS TURBINES; GASES; STABILITY; THERMOACOUSTICS; TIME DELAY; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

BASE LOAD OPERATIONS; COMBUSTION INSTABILITIES; COMBUSTION STABILITY; FLAME CHARACTERISTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINES; OPERATING PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84929493619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/99-GT-110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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