...Hany Bassily; Mohammed F. Daqaq; John Wagner The transition between two operational modes in a dynamic system often occurs under strict measures such that repeatability is more a target than a metric for performance evaluations. The concept of Poincaré maps may be applied to health monitoring...

..., final revision, March 2003. Associate Editor: H. R. Simmons. 16 June 2003 01 October 2002 01 March 2003 24 11 2004 compressors performance evaluation gas turbines evaporation cooling water mechanical engineering coolants Inlet fog boost (IFB) is now...

... Kalman filters neural nets gas turbines performance evaluation fault diagnosis The goal of gas turbine performance diagnostics is to accurately detect, isolate, and assess the changes in engine module performance, engine system malfunctions, and instrumentation problems from knowledge...

...Dennis N. Assanis, Associate Editor 29 04 2003 internal combustion engines ignition emission wear tribology fuel road vehicles performance evaluation Almost one and a half centuries since it became a practical reality, the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) remains today...

... on the results and discussion of evaporative intercooled industrial gas turbines. gas turbine power stations simulation performance evaluation evaporation boilers humidity control compressible flow air cooling 04 June 2001 01 Dec 2000 01 Mar 2001 27 12 2002...

... oxide fuel cells gas turbines power systems performance evaluation The pressurized SOFC/GT hybrid cycle power system is depicted schematically simplified in Fig. 1 . 1 PSOFC/GT hybrid power system cycle—simplified schematic The SOFC generator is pressurized, operating...

... performance evaluation pressure The pressure and flow characteristics of pipelines as well as other factors may influence the arrangement of compressors in a station. This study will define a pipeline system under typical conditions and discuss the system behavior for two compressors piped either...

... 01 March 2001 24 09 2002 gas turbines power systems emission electric generators design for manufacture performance evaluation With a modest level of turbine inlet temperature, and a high degree of recuperation, the exhaust temperature from the turbogenerator is only 250°C...

... turbines performance evaluation fatigue testing computerised monitoring compressors Even under the best possible operating conditions, the performance of a gas turbine is subjected to deterioration due to compressor fouling and corrosion, inlet filter clogging, thermal fatigue, and oxidization...

... ). As a consequence, the stage enthalpy drop Δ h i , and the stage expansion pressure ratio, have been iteratively calculated by means of Eq. ( 10 ). During off-design performance evaluation, for the surface areas of various heat exchangers, the values calculated at the full-load condition were...

... Editor: R. Natole. 04 June 2001 01 Dec 2000 01 Mar 2001 24 09 2002 solid oxide fuel cells power systems gas turbines design for manufacture performance evaluation simulation The increasing use of electronic equipment in the IT has put a strain on the existing...

... June 2001 01 December 2000 01 March 2001 24 09 2002 gas turbines environmental degradation humidity performance evaluation Use of monitoring systems for assessing the condition of a gas turbine and its components is widespread today. Such systems provide substantial...

... solid oxide fuel cells thermal analysis heat engines performance evaluation fuel cell power plants Due to the projected increases in fossil fuel usage world wide, the greenhouse gas emissions of CO 2 to the atmosphere are expected to increase by about 60 percent by 2015 over...

.... Associate Editor: G. Sheard. 01 10 2000 01 08 2001 26 03 2002 gas turbine power stations performance evaluation electric power generation Combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants are being the type of plant that is mostly built...

...; final revision received by ASME Headquarters February 2000. Associate Editor: D. Wisler. 08 May 2000 01 11 1999 01 02 2000 26 03 2002 magnetic bearings performance evaluation gas turbines rotors vibration control Advancement in turbine...

... and Exhibition, Munich, Germany, May 8–11, 2000; Paper 00-GT-174. Manuscript received by IGTI, Nov. 1999; final revision received by ASME Headquarters, Feb. 2001. Associate Editor: D. R. Ballal. 01 Nov 1999 01 Feb 2001 molten carbonate fuel cells performance evaluation steam electrochromic...

... in the ASME JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER . Manuscript received by the AES Division, Sept. 2000; final revision, Feb. 2001. Editor: H. D. Nelson. 01 Sept 2000 01 Feb 2001 gas turbines performance evaluation cooling combustion heat engines It is well...

... Jan. 2001. Associate Editor: D. Assanis. 01 Apr 2000 01 Jan 2001 internal combustion engines performance evaluation power plants thermal barrier coatings combustion fuel optimal control Typical U.S. military combat and tactical vehicle propulsion specifications...

... pollution control performance evaluation The goal of the next generation of gas turbine combustors is to reduce NO x emissions to meet regulatory levels that cannot be attained with present-day conventional combustors. In conventional gas turbine combustors, thermal NO x...

... model for DME. internal combustion engines fuel organic compounds sprays jets modelling automobiles performance evaluation 06 Dec 2000 07 Dec 2000 Contributed by the Internal Combustion Engine Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication...