Potential Application of NASA Aerospace Technology to Ground-Based Power Systems

Abstract

A review of some of the basic gas turbine technology being developed at the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, which may have the potential to be applied to ground based systems, is presented in this paper. Only a sampling of the large number of research activities underway at the Glenn Research Center can be represented here. The items selected for presentation are those that may lead to increased power and efficiency, reduced cycle design time and cost, improved thermal design, reduced fatigue and fracture, reduced mechanical friction and increased operating margin. The topic of improved material will be presented by Misra et al. in this conference and shall not be discussed here. The topics selected for presentation are key research activities at the Glenn Center of Excellence on Turbo-machinery. These activities should be of interest and utility to this ISABE Special Forum on Aero-Derivative Land-Based Gas Turbines and to the power industry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA372711

Entities

People

  • Gerard E. Welch
  • Louis A. Povinelli
  • Milind A. Bakhle

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Aeroelasticity
  • Boundary Layer
  • Compressors
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Gas Turbines
  • Ground Based
  • Heat Transfer
  • Rotor Blades (Turbomachinery)
  • Turbine Components
  • Turbines
  • Turbogenerators

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space