2. Joule cycle and derived cycles. Gas and combustion turbines

2.1 Joule cycle

The basic cycle of gas turbines (GT) is the Joule cycle, and although most of these machines are actually internal combustion engines, for this reason still called combustion turbines (CT), the elementary analysis of their operation uses the notion of cyclic evolution of the thermodynamic fluid: a gas.

2.1.1 Cases respecting reversibility

On the basis of the technological principle that heat exchange in heat exchangers takes place at constant pressure, and that the flow of...