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Hello,
In http://www.aerostudents.com/files/gasTurbines/gasTurbinesFullVersion.pdf it is shown that the efficiency of a gas turbine is determined by the Brayton cycle and it depends on the pressure ratio ε.
ε is the compression ratio before fossil fuel burning invests further energy into the gas.
I want to be sure that my thinking is correct -
If I build a reservoir and perform a very high compression (high ε), efficiency will be high ONLY if the high-pressure gas is supplied to the turbine, which will now be extracting work from the high pressure gas, correct?
But if I am to build a reservoir and perform a very high compression (high ε), but use a pressure regulator to drop the gas pressure before the gas enters the turbine, the efficiency should drop, correct?
It seems to me that the high ε and high efficiency has to do with the area inside the Brayton cycle curve, e.g. high pressure drops utilize better the internal energy of the supplies gas, correct?
In http://www.aerostudents.com/files/gasTurbines/gasTurbinesFullVersion.pdf it is shown that the efficiency of a gas turbine is determined by the Brayton cycle and it depends on the pressure ratio ε.
ε is the compression ratio before fossil fuel burning invests further energy into the gas.
I want to be sure that my thinking is correct -
If I build a reservoir and perform a very high compression (high ε), efficiency will be high ONLY if the high-pressure gas is supplied to the turbine, which will now be extracting work from the high pressure gas, correct?
But if I am to build a reservoir and perform a very high compression (high ε), but use a pressure regulator to drop the gas pressure before the gas enters the turbine, the efficiency should drop, correct?
It seems to me that the high ε and high efficiency has to do with the area inside the Brayton cycle curve, e.g. high pressure drops utilize better the internal energy of the supplies gas, correct?