GAS Libri GmbH Gas Turbine Systems Engineering Textbook: Auxiliary Equipment, Controls, and Reliability for Power Generation and Mechanical-Drive Applications

The turbine is only the center of the plant. The systems around it decide whether it starts, runs, and stays available.An installed gas turbine is far more than an inlet, compressor, combustor, turbine, and exhaust. Its lube oil system, fuel conditioning train, air filtration and exhaust, starter, control and protection logic, cooling and sealing systems, driven load, and heat-recovery interface shape every hour of its service life.
Yet most gas turbine texts focus on cycle thermodynamics and blade aerodynamics. Engineers who specify, commission, operate, and maintain real units spend most of their time in the systems layer around the machine, often piecing that knowledge together from scattered manuals, site procedures, and hard-won experience.
>What this book helps you do- See how rotor support, lubrication, fuel, air, starting, and control systems connect, so problems are never analysed in isolation.- Size equipment with clear calculations: oil flow for heat removal, pump suction margin, reservoir dwell time, control-valve flow coefficient, starting torque, and cooling-water flow.- Understand governing, droop load sharing, sequencing, protective trips, redundant controls, and safety instrumented systems.- Connect combustion operability, pressure-pulsation monitoring, and emissions-control equipment to real plant behaviour.- Check generator synchronization, gearbox sizing, and torsional separation margin for mechanical-drive trains.- Plan for the long term with condition monitoring, reliability and availability analysis, inspection intervals, spare parts, and life-cycle cost.Key topics include
Heavy-duty frame and aeroderivative packages, site rating corrections, inlet filtration and anti-icing, exhaust back-pressure, black-start requirements, heat recovery steam generator integration, combined-cycle heat-rate accounting, spectral vibration diagnostics, remaining-useful-life methods, commissioning, and site acceptance testing.
>Who this book is for
Upper-level engineering students and practising mechanical, power, reliability, and plant engineers who need a working command of gas turbine auxiliary systems, controls, integration, and life-cycle management.
Get your copy and start seeing the complete gas turbine plant, not just the machine at its center, as one connected system you can specify, run, and maintain with confidence.