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By TMI Staff & Contributors · On March 30, 2018
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Because the gas turbine performance varies

significantly from one design to the other, the
procedure to determine the performance of the
engine for a specified operating point is to use
the manufacturer’s performance maps.

Today, these maps are usually embedded in

software programs that allow the calculation of
performance parameters of the engine. In
general, these maps can be used to determine
the engine full load output at a given ambient temperature, and a given power turbine speed. They
also show the fuel flow at any load, as well as exhaust flow and temperature. Additional maps allow
correction for inlet and exhaust losses as well as for the site elevation. For diagnostic purposes, the
maps also allow to determine the expected compressor discharge pressure, control temperature
(typically power turbine inlet temperature or exhaust temperature) and gas generator speed at any
operating point.

This article contains excerpts from the paper, “Gas turbine performance”, presented at the 2016
Turbomachinery Symposium by Klaus Brun of Southwest Research Institute and Rainer Kurz of
Solar Turbines.

Discrepancies between the expected and the actual values may be indicative of engine problems. In
order to fully understand the information displayed on engine performance maps, we want to
determine what the reason is for an engine to behave the way it does. It should be noted that,
particularly in the field, the measurement of power output, heat rate, exhaust flow and exhaust
temperature are usually rather difficult. Understanding the operating principles of the engine is
therefore a useful tool of interpreting data.

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