Performance of Industrial Gas Turbines through Blade Design and Cooling Strategies

Abstract

Industrial gas turbines are steam engines that leverage an ongoing stream of high pressure air to
generate mechanical power. These machines can be used for a variety of industrial applications,
including that of the manufacturing of electricity, oil and gas, and the propulsion of ships and
planes. The classification can be made of an industrial gas turbine are a turbine, a combustion
chamber, and a compressor. Incoming air is compressed by the compressor to enhance its
pressure and temperature. Fuel is then mixed with the compressed air to form elevated, increased
combustion gases, which are then turned into mechanical power by the turbine. In order to make
electricity and meet the world's energy needs, industrial gas turbines are major elements. They
are exploited in combined cycle power plants, which produces electricity by burning fuel and
expanding the hot gases that emerge from the explosion through a turbine. The design of the gas
turbine blades and cooling technologies must be modified if high levels of efficiency and
performance are to be attained.