Axial Turbines

 1.  Turbocompound Aircraft Engine

  •  2-stage partial admission turbine
  • 7-inch diameter, 40000 RPM
  • Fluid: combustion air
  • Objectives: sizing optimization and performance analysis, detailed blade designs

2.  R245fa waste heat expander

  • 1-stage partial admission transonic reaction turbine
  • 3-inch diameter, 31500 RPM
  • Fluid: R245fa
  • Objectives: conceptual design, preliminary sizing and performance analysis, detailed blade designs

3.  Miniature Air Drill Turbine

  • 6-stages, full admission subsonic reaction turbine
  • 1-inch diameter, 65,000 RPM
  • Fluid: air
  • Objectives: conceptual design, preliminary sizing and performance analysis

4.  Miniature Air Test Turbine

  • 1-stage, full admission supersonic reaction turbine
  • 0.30 inch diameter, 500K rpm
  • Fluid: air
  • Objectives: preliminary sizing and performance analysis, detailed blade designs

5.  Solar thermal Heat Expander

  • 5- and 10- stage partial admission impulse turbine
  • 8-inch to 14-inch diameter range, 6600 RPM
  • Fluid: steam
  • Objectives: conceptual sizing, performance analysis, preliminary blade design

6.  Power Turbine for Industrial Gas Turbine

  • 2-stages, high reaction turbine
  • 55-inch diameter, 3750 RPM
  • Fluid: combustion air
  • Objectives: axial thrust calculations and verification of negative thrust

 7.  Ocean Wave Energy Turbine

  • 1-stage turbine with bi-directional blades
  • 49-inch diameter, 350 RPM
  • Fluid: air
  • Objectives: conceptual sizing, performance analysis, preliminary blade designs

8.  Supercritical CO2 expander

  • 2-stage, double flow reaction design
  • 6-inch diameter, 50000 RPM
  • Fluid: supercritical CO2
  • Objectives: conceptual design and feasibility studies

9.  Geothermal Turbine Rerates

  • 7-stage single flow and 6-stage double flow units
  • 31-inch & 52-inch diameters, 4500 & 4600 RPM
  • Fluid: low pressure steam
  • Objectives: hardware modifications, performance analysis, preliminary blade design

10.  Conventional steam turbines

  • Extensive list, dating back to 1978
  • Design configurations: impulse, reaction, Curtis stage
  • Operating conditions: low subsonic to highly supersonic flow
  • Applications: mechanical & generator drive, geothermal, waste heat