Industrial Gas Turbines – An Overview

Today, the gas turbine is commonplace for providing prime movers in the Power Generation, Oil and Gas and Petrochemical industries. Over the past 30 years, the advantages of the gas turbine, in terms of capacity choice, flexibility of operation and environment, have out weighed its disadvantages of high component costs and maintenance. The condition monitoring of these machines offers challenges not encountered on other machines, but in order to understand these fully, an appreciation of the different types of gas turbine in service is helpful. This application note discusses the main engineering characteristics of gas turbines used in an industrial application.