.ThermoPower.Gas.TurbineStodola

Information

This method is based on the Stodola's law, which calculates PR as function of the inlet conditions, i.e. mass flowrate, inlet temperature and pressure.

Modelling options

The following options are available to define Stodola's constant K:

• NominalCondition = true: Stodola's constant K is specified by the nominal operating point (wnom,Tstart_in,pstart_in,pstart_out)
• NominalCondition = false: Stodola's constant K is used directly.

The following options are available to define the efficiency eta:

• fixedEta = true: the efficiency is explicitly supplied as a parameter.
• fixedEta = false: the efficiency is a function of the pressure ratio PR and of the referred speed N_T. The function is defined by interpolation of the table tableEta, where N_T represents the first row and PR the first column of the table. The interpolation is performed by a Modelica.Blocks.Tables.CombiTable2D model.

The following options are available to select the way of definition of the table:

• Table = 0: the table is explicitly supplied as a matrix parameter.
• Table = 1: the table is read from a file; the string fileName contains the path to the files where the table is stored, either in ASCII or Matlab binary format.

Revisions

• 13 Apr 2005 by Francesco Casella:
  Turbine model restructured using inheritance.
  First release.