The ultra-high efficiency gas turbine engine,UHEGT,Part II: A numerical study on reducing the stator blade surface temperature by indexing fuel injectors and using film cooling
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The ultra-high efficiency gas turbine engine,UHEGT,Part II: A numerical study on reducing the stator blade surface temperature by indexing fuel injectors and using film cooling
In the Ultra-High Efficiency Gas Turbine Engine, UHEGT (introduced in our previous studies) the combustion process is no longer contained in isolation between the compressor and turbine, rather distributed within the axial gaps before each stator row. This technology substantially increases the thermal efficiency of the engine cycle to above 45%, increases power output, and reduces turbine inlet temperature. Since the combustion process is brought into the turbine stages in UHEGT, the stator blades are exposed to high-temperature gases and can be overheated. To address this issue and reduce the temperature on the stator blade surface, two different approaches are investigated in this paper. The first is indexing (clocking) of the fuel injectors (cylindrical tubes extended from hub to shroud), in which the positions of the injectors are adjusted relative to each other and the stator blades. The second is film cooling, in which cooling holes are placed on the blade surface to bring down the temperature via coolant injection. Four configurations are designed and studied via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to evaluate the effectiveness of the two approaches. Stator blade surface temperature (as the main objective function) along with other performance parameters such as temperature non-uniformity at rotor inlet, total pressure loss over the injectors, and total power production by rotor are evaluated for all configurations. The results show that indexing presents the most promising approach in reducing the stator blade surface temperature while producing the least amount of total pressure loss.
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