Technical Paper
Advanced Exergy Analysis of Air-Film Blade Cooled Marine Gas Turbine (LM2500+)
2018-04-03
2018-01-1372
Exergy analysis provides appropriate information for improvement of thermodynamic efficiency of the system focusing on system components with maximum exergy destruction. But this method lacks in showing the mutual interaction between system components on cycle performance. Hence an advanced approach i.e. Advanced Exergy Analysis’ has been adopted and discussed in present paper. Advanced exergy analysis of LM2500+, a marine gas turbine cycle adopting air-film blade cooling techniques has been reported. The advanced exergy analysis primarily focuses on categorizing the irreversibility of process components. Advanced exergy analysis identifies exergy destruction based on two different aspects: first identifying source of irreversibility and other being minimization of this irreversibility. Thus, advanced exergy analysis splits exergy destruction into endogenous and exogenous exergy destruction as well as avoidable and unavoidable exergy destructions.