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The problems faced by designers of micro-turbines are connected with a very small volume flow rate of working media which leads to small blades’ height and high rotor speed. In the case of gas turbines this limitation can be overcome by the application of a closed cycle with very low pressure at the compressor inlet (lower than atmospheric pressure). In this way we may apply a micro gas turbine unit of accepted efficiency to work in a similar range of temperatures and the same pressure ratios, but in the range of smaller pressure values and smaller mass flow rate. Thus, we can obtain a gas turbine of a very small output but of the efficiency typical of gas turbines with a much higher power. In the paper the results of the thermodynamic calculations of the turbine cycles are discussed and the designed gas turbine flow parts are presented. Suggestions of the design solutions of micro gas turbines for different values of power output are proposed. This new approach to gas turbine arrangement makes it possible to build a gas turbine unit of a very small output and a high efficiency. The calculations of cycle and gas turbine design were performed for different cycle parameters and different working media (air, nitrogen, hydrogen, helium, xenon and carbon dioxide).
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- artykuły w czasopismach
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ENERGIES
no. 13,
ISSN: 1996-1073 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Bibliographic description:
- Kosowski K., Piwowarski M.: Design Analysis of Micro Gas Turbines in Closed Cycles// ENERGIES -Vol. 13,iss. 21 (2020), s.5790-
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/en13215790
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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