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INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINE Air Intake System

Explain air intake filter house in details?

Gas turbines consume large mass of air

    a 125 MW machine has compressor inlet flow     of 438 kg/s for 50 oC ambient temperature

thus careful design of the intake system is needed to ensure that:
frictional losses are a minimum, and
noise of the air entering the machine is kept to an acceptable limit.
 

Explain air intake filter house in details?

Air intake main parts

 
Filter element
    Air entering compressor must be filtered from any dust or residues     that may enter & cause fouling to the which reduce compressor     blades efficiency, the use of series of filters in stead of one big filter     is more practical because design & erection complexity are     reduced, also if pressure drop in air intake increases, a set of small     filters can easily be removed in stead of removing the hall big filter.

Air intake silencer
    The silencer contain sound absorbent baffles & these baffles are     covered with perforated sheets & filled with high quality heat &     moisture resistance mineral wool, this mineral wool is covered by a     glass fiber which gives an additional mechanical protection for the     absorbent material.


INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINE Air Intake System

Air intake main parts
Filter element purging system
    As air passes through filter elements for a long period, the filters     become dirty & thus the pressure drop across them will increase,     to overcome rapid increase in pressure drop either filter elements     is replaced with new elements or air filter must be purged

The compressed air will released via small holes on the air lines located behind each filter ,there are solenoid valves that operate with respect to each raw of filters to release that compressed air.

Compressed air releasing process will done by pulsing ,so some time filters cleaning system may named as pulse air system ,complete purging process may take 84 pulses (30 minutes duration ) & the cleaning process will start from top of the air intake to the bottom so that we avoid dust to sucked again by upper filter raw.






















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