Composite turbine blade design options for Claude (open) cycle OTEC power systems
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OSTI ID:6101729
Small-scale turbine rotors made from composites offer several technical advantages for a Claude (open) cycle ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) power system. Westinghouse Electric Corporation has designed a composite turbine rotor/disk using state-of-the-art analysis methods for large-scale (100-MW/sub e/) open cycle OTEC applications. Near-term demonstrations using conventional low-pressure turbine blade shapes with composite material would achieve feasibility and modern credibility of the open cycle OTEC power system. Application of composite blades for low-pressure turbo-machinery potentially improves the reliability of conventional metal blades affected by stress corrosion.
- Research Organization:
- Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 6101729
- Report Number(s):
- SERI/TP-252-2792; CONF-860491-1; ON: DE85016876
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international symposium and exhibit on OMAE, Tokyo, Japan, 13 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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