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Determining the Pressure Gain of Pressure Gain Combustion [PDF]
2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, 2018 Over the past few decades, there has been significant research into propulsion concepts attempting to employ pressure gain combustion. Pressure gain combustion concepts to date have resulted in dynamic, non-uniform gas flows which are difficult to ...
Paxson D.E. +6 more
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Potentials for Pressure Gain Combustion in Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2019 Pressure gain combustion evokes great interest as it promises to increase significantly gas turbine efficiency and reduce emissions. This also applies to advanced thermodynamic cycles with heat exchangers for intercooling and recuperation.
Nicolai Neumann, Dieter Peitsch
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Pressure gain combustion advantage in land-based electric power generation
Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society, 2017 This article evaluates the improvement in gas turbine combined cycle power plant efficiency and output via pressure gain combustion (PGC). Ideal and real cycle calculations are provided for a rigorous assessment of PGC variants (e.g., detonation and ...
Seyfettin Gulen
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Editorial: Pressure Gain Combustion technologies for a Greener propulsion
Frontiers in Aerospace EngineeringThis Research Topic was formulated to address some fundamental aspects of Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC) performance and modelling strategies. Recently, great interest arose in developing novel cycles for gas turbines aimed at increasing overall efficiency and specific power.
Simone Salvadori +2 more
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Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society, 2018 A numerical aeroelastic assessment of a highly loaded high pressure compressor exposed to flow disturbances is presented in this paper. The disturbances originate from novel, inherently unsteady, pressure gain combustion processes, such as pulse ...
Victor Bicalho Civinelli de Almeida +1 more
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An alternative architecture of the Humphrey cycle and the effect of fuel type on its efficiency
Energy Science & Engineering, 2020 Conventional gas turbines are a very mature technology, and performance improvements are becoming increasingly difficult and costly to achieve. Pressure‐gain combustion (PGC) has emerged as a promising technology in this respect, due to the higher ...
Panagiotis Stathopoulos
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Investigation of the relationship between combustion efficiency and total pressure gain for RDE
Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringTotal pressure gain is an important parameter in RDC engineering applications. Many factors affect the total pressure gain, such as the area ratio of the outlet to the inlet (A8/A3.1) and type of fuel.
Yongfen Chen +5 more
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Enhancing diesel engine performance and emissions with N-Butanol enhanced biodiesel derived from Scenedesmus obliquus algae [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe main goals of this study were to produce biodiesel from Scenedesmus obliquus algae using n-butanol as a green fuel and to analyse engine performance, combustion characteristics, and emission.
Haiter Lenin Allasi +3 more
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Aerospace, 2023 As the issue of pollutant emissions from aviation propulsion escalates, research into alternative powertrains is gaining momentum. Two promising technologies are the Hybrid Electric Propulsion System (HEPS) and Pressure Gain Combustion (PGC).
Dongsuk Kim, Majid Asli, Klaus Höschler
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A Review of Pressure Gain Combustion Solutions for Aerospace Propulsion
Volume 4: Cycle Innovations; Cycle Innovations: Energy Storage, 2022 Abstract Recent developments in Pressure Gain Combustion (PGC) technology have demonstrated its ability to achieve higher thermal efficiencies and lower carbon emissions as compared to conventional gas turbine counterpart working in Brayton cycle.
Purushothaman S. +3 more
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