• Classification: typical cycles, heavy duty and aeroderivative designs, applications.
• Presentation: main components. Typical machineries on the market.
• Construction and design: compression, combustion, expansion. Rotor dynamics, coupling.
• Ancillaries equipments: internal cooling, lubrication, control system with typical parallel control loops and firing temperature calculation, speed, combustion, fire detection, gas detection, lube oil mist safety devices. External ancillaries: filtering, exhaust stack, fire fighting, fuel supply.
• Thermodynamics: ideal and actual gas, evolution through compression and expansion, according isentropic and polytropic processing.
• Centrifugal and axial compression. Performance, stability and other limits.
• Combustion: types of combustors, combustion operation. Fuel type influence. Cogeneration process. Low NOx designs.
• Expansion: one shaft or two shafts design expansion operation.
• Performance according to actual atmosphere data, fuel selection. API charts. Available load characteristics: rotation speed, firing temperature, IGV influences. Open cycle, combined cycle examples.
• Selection criteria according availability, operation and maintenance requirements.
• Bidding: significant informations for data sheet writing.
• Start-up and shut-down operation: sequences steps, trip actors.
• Air filtering, lubrication and fuel systems.
• Performance and mechanical operation monitoring.
• Maintenance during operation: compressor cleaning devices.
• Maintenance objectives and planning: operation, load, fuel influences.
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