Leonardo Paoli

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Can you give advice on the quantification of thermal efficiency degradation due to ageing of internal combustion engines?

I am looking for peer reviewed articles or technical reports that attempt to quantify the effect of ageing on engine efficiency. So far I only found a study that quantifies this effect for marine...

11 September 2017 4,412 8 View

Why do heavy duty gas turbines have lower pressure ratios than aeroderivatives?

I canno't understand why higher pressure ratios are not applied to GTs in the 150 MW to 400 MW range. I assume that firing temperature is similar for both aeroderivatives (AD) and heavy duty (HD)...

23 April 2016 575 9 View