Browsing Tag myth busters

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  MYTH BUSTERS: DEVELOPMENT PATHS FOR NEXT-GENERATION POWER PLANTS (Part 2)

  S everal recent publications suggested that the use of compressor inter-stage cooling, inter-stage turbine reheat, pressure gain combustion and, consequently, segregated process components interconnected with piping would be ...

  On August 21, 2017 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  Gas Turbine Controls Retrofits — to Buy or not to Buy?

  We recently retrofitted and updated the control system of one of our older gas turbine-driven centrifugal compressor units. The experience turned out to be rather traumatic. The retrofit ...

  On January 26, 2017 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  MYTH: THERE IS PLENTY OF INSTRUMENTATION ON RECIPROCATING COMPRESSORS

  Sometimes, if you don’t want to know the answer to a question, you shouldn’t ask it. That seems to be the approach that many reciprocating compressor original equipment ...

  On October 6, 2016 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  MYTH: ALL LIQUID FUELS ARE THE SAME

  Rainer drinks copious amounts of strong coffee, while I prefer Diet Coke to get the required caffeine intake to wake me up in the morning. Both liquids work ...

  On August 12, 2016 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  Myth: The Surge Line Is Always The Surge Line

  FIVE COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SURGE IN CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSORS Surge is a global system instability caused when a centrifugal compressor’s process gas flow fully reverses, causing load swings on ...

  On November 1, 2015 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  MYTH: Axial thrust does not matter

  For the last ten years, we have only seen sporadic mention in publications about axial thrust calculations. Yet axial thrust management in centrifugal compressors has recently become a ...

  On August 1, 2015 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  Turbo Speak: Striking a Chord

  Letter from the Editor Last issue’s Myth Busters column on the bloat in American Petroleum Institute (API) standards has struck a chord with our readers. Comments poured in ...

  On August 1, 2015 / By Drew Robb
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  Myth Busters: Factory Testing: What Do I Really Need?

  In most states within the United States there are so-called “Lemon Laws” that provide protection to buyers when they purchase automobiles and other large consumer articles. Most Lemon ...

  On September 1, 2014 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  MythBusters: Gas Turbine Surge Can’t Happen to Me

  Industrial gas turbines are designed to operate safely during startup, shutdown, and over a wide range of normal load and speed conditions. Within the gas turbine, the axial ...

  On July 1, 2014 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  Myth Busters: Myth: There is Not Enough Instrumentation in Modern Turbomachinery

  Sometimes in my early adolescence after a girlfriend had just broken up with me, I (Brun) would innocently ask her the rather stupid question, “Why?” Thus I learned ...

  On March 1, 2014 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz