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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Pressure Gain Combustion"”.
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Shockless explosion combustion - Controlled autoignition in stratified mixtures for pressure gain combustion
… autoignition in a reactive mixture flow as a pressure gain combustion approach. Pressure gain combustion represents a promising concept to achieve an increase in the thermal efficiency of gas turbine applications compared to conventional constant pressure combustion. The concept is based on a …
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Investigation of Pulse Detonation Engine Flow Conditions for Turbomachinery Integration
<p>Pressure gain combustion has been known to be more thermodynamically efficient than its constant pressure counterpart, which employs deflagration. Integration of pressure gain combustors into gas turbine engines has been and still is one of the most important challenges facing the gas turbine …
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Advancing Exhaust Flow Uniformity, Operational Stability, and Total Pressure Gain of Rotating Detonation Engines for Successful Turbine Integration
Rotating Detonation Combustors (RDCs) have gained significant attention in recent years for their potential for higher fuel efficiency through pressure-gain combustion (PGC). RDC integrated with a gas turbine, offers the potential for increased system efficiency. However, RDC operation involves …
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Investigation of methane-fueled rotating detonation combustor exhaust flow field via time-resolved particle image velocimetry
… detonation combustors (RDCs) as a form of pressure gain combustion (PGC) have received increased research attention in the power generation and aerospace/defense propulsion fields due to the potentially substantial thermal efficiency advantages associated with its operation cycles as …
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Methods of Diffusing Pulse Detonation Combustion
Pulse detonation combustion has been of interest for many years since it offers several advantages over standard deflagrative combustion. In theory, detonative combustion is a better use of fuel compared to deflagrative combustion since less entropy is generated during a detonation. As a result, …
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On the Challenges of integrating a Rotating Detonation Combustor with an Industrial Gas Turbine and important design considerations for Row-1 Blades
… performance of such gas turbine power cycles, pressure gain combustion (PGC) has gained significant interest. The potential for an increase in the thermodynamic efficiency over the constant-pressure Brayton Cycle has made detonation combustors, a type of PGC, an attractive alternative to …
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Influence of Fuel Inhomogeneity and Stratification Length Scales on Detonation Wave Propagation in a Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC)
… efficiency over the traditional constant pressure combustor. These detonation-based engines are also known as Pressure Gain Combustion systems (PGC) and Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC) is a form of PGC, in which the detonation wave propagates azimuthally around an annular combustor. …
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Computational Methods for Optimizing Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC) to Integrate with Gas Turbine
Pressure Gain Combustion (PGC) systems have gained significant focus in recent years due to its potential for increased thermodynamic efficiency over a constant pressure cycle (or Brayton cycle). A rotating detonation combustor (RDC) is a type of PGC system, which is thermodynamically more …
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Design Solutions for the Coupling of High-Pressure Turbine Vanes to Pressure-Gain Combustors
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Traversing hot jet ignition delay of hydrocarbon blends in a constant volume combustor
… issued from a pre-chamber to a relatively long combustion chamber is experimentally investigated. The long combustion chamber represents a single channel of a wave rotor constant-volume combustor. The issued jet ignites the fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber. Fuel-air mixtures are …