Modelling of a Heating Chamber for Air Turbines: A Method of Optimizing Its Efficiency

Many researchers in various fields of science have focused their research on improving comfort, convenience, and reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. One of the SDGs' objectives is to achieve zero carbon emissions. In order to accomplish this, carbon combustion in heat engines must be stopped. To achieve this, thermodynamic processes that don't utilize organic fuel as their working fluid can be developed. Researchers discovered the use of abundant natural resources including solar, water, wind, and air—known as renewable energies—as well as hydrogen and synergistic gases as a replacement for carbon combustion after learning this information. These renewable energies, meanwhile, struggled in several applications because of their high initial costs as well as their poor mechanical and overall efficiency.

This study created a heating chamber for air turbines that uses an isobaric expansion process to raise the temperature of air to the required temperature for it to effectively roll turbine rotor blades. The heating compartment is designed to simulate the adiabatic compression process used in an air compressor section of an air turbine layout. The heating compartment has an electric heater as its heat source and compressed air as its heat sink. The thermal and economic efficiency of the heating chamber as a section of the air turbine has been calculated using Moran's Levelized Cost Method. The heating compartment raised the compressed air temperature to the required hot temperature at a constant pressure. The is chapter shows the performance of the heating compartment inclusion as an important component of an air turbine.