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Item Open Access Effect of steam addition on gas turbine combustor design and performance(Elsevier, 2016-05-12) Xue, Rui; Hu, Chunbo; Sethi, Vishal; Nikolaidis, Theoklis; Pilidis, PericlesAdding steam influences the combustion process inside the combustor, which should be taken into account during combustor design. The design of combustor has long been the most challenging process. This study integrated the gas turbine performance with the combustor design, and formulated a detailed procedure for single annular combustors with steam addition consideration in particular. To accomplish this, a computer code has been developed based on the design procedures. The design model could provide the combustor geometry and the combustor performance. The inlet parameters for combustor design are obtained and validated through the calculation of gas turbine engine performance provided by our own home code. The model predictions are compared with operational and configuration data from two real engines and show reasonably good accuracy. The influence of steam addition on combustor design is investigated and results showed the variation of geometrical size is highest for components where intense combustion takes place while the design is almost kept the same for components where only pure flow exists. After conforming the feasibility of the combustor design code, we investigated the effects of steam addition on combustor performance. It revealed that steam injection is an effective way to reduce the temperature in the burner while other performance like the total pressure loss would be slightly deteriorated.Item Open Access Effect of steam addition on the flow field and NOx emissions for Jet-A in an aircraft combustor(Freund Publishing House / De Gruyter, 2015-08-13) Xue, Rui; Hu, Chunbo; Nikolaidis, Theoklis; Pilidis, PericlesThe steam injection technology for aircraft engines is gaining rising importance because of the strong limitations imposed by the legislation for NOx reduction in airports. In order to investigate the impact of steam addition on combustion and NOx emissions, an integrated performance-CFD-chemical reactor network (CRN) methodology was developed. The CFD results showed steam addition reduced the high temperature size and the radical pool moved downstream. Then different post-processing techniques are employed and CRN is generated to predict NOx emissions. This network consists of 14 chemical reactor elements and the results were in close agreement with the ICAO databank. The established CRN model was then used for steam addition study and the results showed under air/steam mixture atmosphere, high steam content could push the NOx formation region to the post-flame zone and a large amount of the NOx emission could be reduced when the steam mass fraction is quite high.