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{"title":"The Application of an Artificial Neural Network as a Baseline Model for Condition Monitoring of Innovative Humidified Micro Gas Turbine Cycles","authors":"Kathryn Colquhoun, Nikpey Homam, Ward De Paepe","doi":"10.1115/1.4063785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063785","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The MGT market is still considered to be niche and there are R&D&I challenges that need to be addressed to further promote this technology in distributed generation applications. Innovative MGT cycles based on a cycle humidification concept, can be considered to obtain higher system performance. However, given the fact that MGTs are installed close to the consumption points, where they are operated by non-technical prosumers with very limited access to maintenance services, they should also offer high availability and reliability to avoid unexpected outages and secure the supply. Therefore, intelligent monitoring systems are needed that can support non-expert end-users to detect degradation and plan maintenance before a breakdown occurs. In this study, we investigated and developed advanced methods based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) for condition monitoring of a humidified MGT cycle under real-life operational conditions. To create a high-performing model, extensive data preprocessing has been conducted to remove data outliers and select optimum model features, which provide best results. Additionally, the model hyperparameters such as learning rate, momentum and number of hidden nodes have been altered to achieve the most accurate predictions. The results of this study have provided a baseline ANN model capable of conducting condition monitoring of a micro-Humid Air Turbine (mHAT) system, which will be applied to additional studies in the future.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leveraging Additive Manufacturing to Fabricate High Temperature Alloys with Co-Designed Mechanical Properties and Environmental Resistance","authors":"Rishi Pillai, Q.Q. Ren, Yi-Feng Su, Rebecca Kurfess, Thomas Feldhausen, Soumya Nag","doi":"10.1115/1.4063784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063784","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A paradigm shift in the traditional sequential design approaches is critically essential to create application-specific hierarchical and multifunctional materials with superior longterm performance for next-generation energy technologies involving extreme environments. In the current work, we aim to leverage the flexibility and geometric/compositional complexity offered by additive manufacturing to demonstrate this new approach by co-designing a compositionally graded Ni-based alloy for molten saltssCO2 heat exchangers to enable mitigation of environmental degradation of surfaces exposed to molten halide salts, while simultaneously suppressing the consequent deterioration in mechanical stability. Thermokinetic modeling describing the underlying physics of thermally- and environmentally induced spatiotemporal compositional and microstructural evolution will be employed to predict the parameter space of material deposition processes and precisely identify the required composition gradient. Preliminary corrosion and mechanical testing of the dual material demonstrated the potential of the material to replace existing solid solution strengthened materials for this application.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance, Emissions, and Decarbonization of an Industrial Gas Turbine Operated with Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil","authors":"Jon Runyon, Stuart James, Tanmay Kadam, Barak Ofir, David Graham","doi":"10.1115/1.4063787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063787","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As part of Uniper's strategy for carbon neutrality in its European power generation by 2035, a Kraftwerk Union/Siemens V93.0 gas turbine (GT) in Malmö, Sweden was operated with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a low-carbon replacement for gas oil in July 2021. Prior to HVO operation, a feasibility study was conducted including fuel comparison, flame temperature modelling, and a hazard identification study. During the two-day demonstration, GT performance was monitored using either gas oil or HVO at start-up, full load, part load, and shut-down. Accredited emissions of NOx, CO, SO2, and dust were measured to allow comparison between fuels. When firing HVO, no adverse GT operations were encountered, and direct flame imaging was used to observe the successful HVO ignition process at start-up. NOx emissions were nominally similar to gas oil during HVO operation. Therefore, the water injection rate for NOx control was unchanged between fuels, confirming the predictions of the flame temperature modelling. Dust, CO, and SO2 emissions reduced during HVO operation. HVO also enables significant lifecycle CO2 emissions reductions compared with fossil gas oil with ~163 tCO2 emissions avoided in this trial. This trial provides evidence for future site fuel conversion. Further testing and monitoring is required to develop evidence regarding the long-term impact of HVO operation on fuel storage, fuel delivery, and hot gas path components. To the authors' knowledge, this trial is the first successful demonstration of HVO use in an industrial gas turbine in the world.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatially Resolved Modeling of the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Laminar Premixed Flame with a Multilayer Perceptron - Convolution Autoencoder Network","authors":"Marcin Rywik, Axel Zimmermann, Alexander J. Eder, Edoardo Scoletta, Wolfgang Polifke","doi":"10.1115/1.4063788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063788","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This work presents a multilayer perceptron-convolutional autoencoder (MLP-CAE) neural network, which accurately predicts the two-dimensional flame dynamics of an acoustically excited premixed laminar flame. The architecture maps the acoustic perturbation time series to a heat release rate field, capturing flame lengths and shapes. This extends previous neural network models, which predicted only the field-integrated value. The MLP-CAE comprises two sub-models: an MLP and a CAE. The idea behind the CAE network is to find a lower dimensional latent space of the heat release rate field. The MLP is responsible for modeling the flame dynamics by transforming the acoustic forcing signal into this latent space, enabling the decoder to produce the flow field distributions. To train the MLP-CAE, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) flame simulations with a broadband acoustic forcing were used. Its normalized amplitude was set to 0.5 and 1.0, ensuring a nonlinear flame response. The network was found to accurately predict the perturbed flame shapes. Additionally, it conserved the correct frequency response as verified by the global and local flame describing functions. The MLP-CAE provides a building block towards a potential shift away from a '0D' flame analysis with the acoustic compactness assumption. Combined with an acoustic network, the generated flame fields could provide more physical insight in the thermoacoustic dynamics. Those capabilities do not come at an additional significant computational cost, as even the previous nonspatial flame models had to train on the CFD data, which included field distributions.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thrust Rebalance to Extend Engine Time On-Wing with Consideration of Engine Degradation and Creep Life Consumption","authors":"Rafael da Mota Chiavegatto, Yiguang Li","doi":"10.1115/1.4063791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063791","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Airlines have consistently attempted to lower their operational costs and improve aircraft availability by applying various technologies. Engine maintenance expenses are one of the most substantial costs for aircraft operations, accounting for around 30% of overall aircraft operational costs. So, maximizing aircraft TBO is crucial to lowering the costs. This paper presents a novel method of rebalancing the thrust of engines of an aircraft to maximize the time between overhaul of the aircraft considering the performance degradation and creep life consumption of the engines. The method is applied to a model aircraft fitted with two model engines similar to GE90 115B to test the feasibility of the method with one engine degraded and the other engine undegraded. The obtained results demonstrate that for the aircraft flying between London and Toronto with 5,000 nominal flight cycles given to the engines, the time on-wing of the degraded engine could drop from 5,000 to 2,460 flight days due to its HP turbine degradation (1% efficiency degradation 3% flow capacity degradation), causing the same level of drop of time between overhaul of the aircraft. The time on-wing of the degraded engine could increase from 2,460 flight days without thrust rebalance to 3,410 flight days with thrust rebalance, i. e. around 38.6% potential improvement for the time between overhaul of the aircraft at the expenses of increased creep life consumption rate of the clean engine. The proposed method could be applied to other aircraft and engines.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parametric Reduced Order Model of a Gas Bearings Supported Rotor","authors":"Dimitri Goutaudier, Jüurg Schiffmann, Fabio Nobile","doi":"10.1115/1.4063424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063424","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Gas bearings use pressurized gas as a lubricant to support and guide rotating machinery. These bearings have a number of advantages over traditional lubricated bearings, including higher efficiency in a variety of applications and reduced maintenance requirements. However, they are more complex to operate and exhibit nonlinear behaviors. This paper presents a parametric hyper reduced order model (h-ROM) of a gas bearings supported rotor enabling to speed up the computations up to a factor 100 while preserving satisfactory accuracy. A Galerkin projection setting is employed to reduce the dimension of the governing equations and the nonlinear terms are efficiently tackled with a sparse sampling technique. The performances of the h-ROM are compared to a high fidelity model both in terms of accuracy and computation time, demonstrating the potential for future anomaly detection applications.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of Hydrogen Enrichment On Transfer Matrices of Fully and Technically Premixed Swirled Flames","authors":"Audrey Blondé, Bruno Schuermans, Khushboo Pandey, Nicolas Noiray","doi":"10.1115/1.4063415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063415","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Knowledge of flame responses to acoustic perturbations is of utmost importance to predict thermoacoustic instabilities in gas turbine combustors. However, measuring transfer functions linking acoustic quantities upstream and downstream of flames are very challenging in practical systems and these measurements can significantly deviate from state-of-the-art models. Moreover, there is a lack of studies investigating the effect of hydrogen enrichment on the response of natural gas (NG) flames. In this work, measurements of flame transfer matrices (FTMs) of turbulent H2/NG flames in an atmospheric combustor featuring an axial swirler burner have been performed, allowing us to unravel the transition between FTM in fully premixed (FP) and in technically premixed (TP) conditions. Furthermore, imaging of OH* chemiluminescence and OH-planar laser induced fluorescence are obtained for characterizing the topology of the flame for varying H2 fraction and mixing conditions. Transfer matrices are measured using the multimicrophone method for H2 fractions ranging from 12% to 43% in power. Afterward, the flame transfer functions (FTFs), which linearly relate the coherent fluctuations of the heat release rate to the acoustic velocity oscillations, are obtained from the FTM by using the Rankine–Hugoniot jump conditions across the flame. Using the OH* chemiluminescence intensity as a surrogate for the heat release rate, the FTF based on this optical measurement is also extracted and compared to the one exclusively obtained with the multimicrophone method. As expected, the two different methods are in very good agreement for the FP case and significantly differ for the TP case. Indeed, chemiluminescence fluctuations cannot be directly linked to heat release rate fluctuations when the acoustic forcing induces equivalence ratio fluctuations at the flame, making the optical method unusable for TP configurations. We also show that the two methods agree in the high end of the explored excitation frequency range and we provide an explanation to this intriguing finding. Moreover, we investigate the sensitivity of the FTM measurement to the estimate of the speed of sound in the rig in FP conditions. Finally, the measured FTFs are fitted with FTF models based on multiple distributed time delays. This allows us to explain the frequency dependence and the hydrogen fraction dependence of the gain and the phase in FP and TP conditions.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Techno-Economic Assessment of CO2-Based Power to Heat to Power Systems for Industrial Applications","authors":"Silvia Trevisan, Syed Safeer Mehdi Shamsi, Simone Maccarini, Stefano Barberis, Rafael Guédez","doi":"10.1115/1.4063418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063418","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The industrial sector is a major source of wealth, producing about one-quarter of the global gross product. However, industry is also a major emitter of CO2 and it represents a key challenge toward achieving the worldwide CO2 emission reduction targets. Nowadays, about 22% of the overall energy demand is heating for the industrial sector, generating about 40% of the global CO2 emissions. Additionally, 30% of the final energy demand of the industrial sector is electricity. Solutions to decarbonize the industrial sector are needed. This work presents the techno-economic assessment of four different molten salts-based power-to-heat-to-heat and power solutions aiming at decarbonizing the industrial sector, requiring medium temperature heat. The systems are studied under different electric markets. Dispatch strategies and system sizing are identified to ensure optimal techno-economic performance. The main performance indicators investigated are the levelized cost of heat and electricity (LCoH and LCoE), the operational expenditure, and the attainable savings with respect to alternative business as usual solutions. The results highlight that the proposed system can be cost-competitive, particularly in markets characterized by low electricity prices and high daily price fluctuations, such as Finland. In these locations, LCoE as low as 100 €/MWh and LCoH lower than 55 €/MWh can be attained by the base system configuration. The introduction of high temperature heat pumps can provide further LCoH reduction of about 50%. This study sets the ground for further power-to-heat-to-heat and power techno-economic investigations addressing different industrial sectors and identifies main system design strategies.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pollutant Emissions Reporting and Performance Considerations for Ammonia-Blended Fuels in Gas Turbines","authors":"Christopher M Douglas, Thomas Martz, Robert Steele, David Noble, Benjamin Emerson, Tim Lieuwen","doi":"10.1115/1.4063417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063417","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract To limit climate change and promote energy security, there is widespread interest toward transitioning existing fossil fueled combustion systems to sustainable, alternative fuels such as hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) without negatively impacting air quality. However, quantifying the emission rate of air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) is a nuanced process when comparing pollutant emissions across different fuels, as discussed in our paper GT2022-80971 presented last year. That study indicated that the standardized approach for measuring combustion emissions in terms of dry, oxygen-referenced volumetric concentrations (i.e., dry ppmv at the reference O2 concentration (ppmvdr)) inflates reported pollutant emissions by up to 40% for hydrogen combustion relative to natural gas. In this paper, we extend our prior analysis of these so-called “indirect effects” on emissions values to ammonia (NH3) and cracked ammonia (i.e., molecular hydrogen and nitrogen, 3H2 per N2) fuel blends. The results reveal that ppmvdr-based pollutant reporting approaches have a less prominent influence on emissions interpretations for molecular ammonia–methane blends than for hydrogen–methane blends. Nonetheless, we still find that ppmvdr reporting induces up to a 10% relative increase in apparent emissions when comparing 100% NH3 and 100% methane (CH4) fuels at an equal mass-per-work emission rate. Cracking the ammonia is shown to increase this relative bias up to 21% in comparison to a methane system. Further analysis shows how drying, dilution, thermodynamic, and performance effects each influence the relationship between ppmvdr and mass-per-work emissions across the spectrum of fuels and fuel blends. Following discussion of these findings, we conclude that quantifying combustion emissions using ppmvdr is generally inappropriate for emissions comparisons and advise the combustion community to shift toward robust mass-per-energy metrics when quantifying pollutant emissions.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135944599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Model Predictive Control Strategies for Turbine Electrified Energy Management","authors":"Elyse Hill, Aria E. Amthor, Donald I. Soloway, Donald L Simon, Joseph W. Connolly","doi":"10.1115/1.4063783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063783","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The increasing electrification of aircraft propulsion systems is leading to new control architectures being developed to address integration between electric machines and gas-based turbine engines. For hybrid-electric propulsion systems, current conceptual architectures often couple electric machines with the shafts of gas turbine engines and introduce energy storage. Leveraging the electrical power system of hybridized engines, Turbine Electrified Energy Management (TEEM) is a recent control approach that improves transient operability in an effort to enable more efficient and lighter weight turbomachinery. This study seeks to expand TEEM's application beyond traditional proportional-integral (PI) control by presenting linear model predictive control (MPC) schemes to execute the TEEM concept. Through constraint selection and cost function design, transient operability goals for TEEM are considered with no external logic or saturation. Unique to the designs are the use of a washout filter, which simplifies transient detection and motor activation logic. The proposed architectures are implemented with both centralized MPC and distributed MPC approaches, and comparisons are drawn to a benchmark PI controller simulated on a nonlinear turbofan engine model at one ground condition and one cruise condition. Performance is evaluated using compressor maps, stall margin performance, and two novel metrics: transient stack usage and transient excursion integral. Results reveal the linear MPC scheme performs comparably to the baseline controller and can be implemented in at least two distinct configurations with potential for further modifications, thus establishing the groundwork for future investigations.","PeriodicalId":15685,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135993987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}