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On the internal efficiency of a turbine stage: classical and CFD definitions

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Almost entire fleet of steam turbines in Poland was designed between 1950 – 1980 with the use of the so-called zero dimensional (0D) calculation tools. For several years, design and modernization of the turbines occur in assistance with the state of the art methods that describe working fluid flow field based on 3D models and CFD codes. This cooperation between 0D and 3D codes requires exchange of overall, integral information such as: power, efficiency, heat and mass fluxes. In consequence the question arises regarding the cohesion of definitions, and particularly regarding the correctness of the definition for internal efficiency of the turbine’s stage and the turbine as a whole. In the present paper we formulate basic definitions of efficiency that are naturally adapted to the numerical 0D and 3D models. We show that the main reason of differences between the definitions in 0D and 3D is the definition of the theoretical (ideal) work of the stage. In the classical 0D models, mostly employed is the isentropic approach, and hence the isentropic efficiency occurs . Meanwhile, in the increasingly common 3D approach (most likely by CFD), we use more physically correct pathway by subtracting energy loss from the available energy, that leads to the polytropic definition of efficiency. We show an example of computing the efficiency and the 3D losses, denoted with additional subscript: CFD, and we also discuss benefits of this definition in comparison with the isentropic classical definition in 0D.

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  • Photo of  Lucjan Nastałek

    Lucjan Nastałek

    • Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN Zakład Konwersji Energii
  • Photo of  Michał Karcz

    Michał Karcz

    • Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN Zakład Konwersji Energii
  • Photo of  Daniel Sławiński

    Daniel Sławiński

    • Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN Zakład Konwersji Energii
  • Photo of  Witold Zakrzewski

    Witold Zakrzewski

    • Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN Zakład Konwersji Energii
  • Photo of  Paweł Ziółkowski

    Paweł Ziółkowski

    • Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN Zakład Konwersji Energii
  • Photo of  Czesław Szyrejko

    Czesław Szyrejko

    • ALSTOM Power Elbląg
  • Photo of  Jacek Topolski

    Jacek Topolski

    • ALSTOM Power Elbląg
  • Photo of  Janusz Badur

    Janusz Badur

    • Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN Zakład Konwersji Energii
  • Photo of  Robert Werner

    Robert Werner

    • ALSTOM Power Elbląg

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
Published in:
Transactions of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery pages 48 - 71,
ISSN: 0079-3205
Language:
English
Publication year:
2012
Bibliographic description:
Nastałek L., Karcz M., Sławiński D., Zakrzewski W., Ziółkowski P., Szyrejko C., Topolski J., Badur J., Werner R.: On the internal efficiency of a turbine stage: classical and CFD definitions // Transactions of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery. -., nr. 124 (2012), s.48-71
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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