computer-aided solution to the vibrational effect of instabilities in gas turbine compressors计算机辅助解决燃气涡轮压缩机的振动不稳定的影响.pdfVIP

Engineering, 2010, 2, 658-664 doi:10.4236/eng.2010.28084 Published Online August 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/eng). Computer-Aided Solution to the Vibrational Effect of Instabilities in Gas Turbine Compressors 1 2 3 Ezenwa Alfred Ogbonnaya , Hyginus Ubabuike Ugwu , Charles Agbeju Nimibofa Johnson 1 Department of Marine Engineering, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUA), Umuahia, Nigeria 3Department of Marine Engineering, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa, Nigeria E-mail : {ezenwaogbonnaya, canjohnson2000}@, ubadyke2001@.au Received March 25, 2010; revised June 24, 2010; accepted June 28, 2010 Abstract Surge and stall are the two main types of instabilities that often occur on the compressor system of gas tur- bines. The effect of this instability often leads to excessive vibration due to the back pressure imposed to the system by this phenomenon. In this work, fouling was observed as the major cause of the compressor insta- bility. A step to analyze how this phenomenon can be controlled with the continuous examination of the vi- bration amplitude using a computer approach led to the execution of this work. The forces resulting to vibra- tion in the system is usually external to it. This external force is aerodynamic and the effect was modeled using force damped vibration analysis. A gas turbine plant on industrial duty for electricity generation was used to actualize this research. The data for amplitude of vibration varied between -15 and 15 mm/s while the given mass flow rate and pressure ratio were determined as falling between 6.1 to 6.8 kg/s and 9.3 to 9.6 re- spectively.