Ceramics for ATS industrial turbines
- Allison Engine Co., Indianapolis, IN (United States)
- USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center, WV (United States)
US DOE and most US manufacturers of stationary gas turbines are participating in a major national effort to develop advanced turbine systems (ATS). The ATS program will achieve ultrahigh efficiencies, environmental superiority, and cost competitiveness compared with current combustion turbine systems. A major factor in the improved efficiencies of simple cycle ATS gas turbines will be higher operating efficiencies than curren engines. These temperatures strain the limits of metallic alloy and flow-path cooling technologies. Ceramics materials offer a potential alterative to cooled turbine alloys for ATS turbines due to higher melting points than metallics. This paper evaluates ceramics technology and plant economic issues for ATS industrial turbine systems. A program with the objective of demonstrating first-stage ceramic vanes in a commerical industrial turbine is also described.
- Research Organization:
- Allison Engine Co., Indianapolis, IN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC21-93MC29257
- OSTI ID:
- 229345
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/29257-96/C0696; CONF-9606158-2; ON: DE96010172
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Turbo Expo 96, Birmingham (United Kingdom), 10-14 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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