Abstract

This paper covers :

  1. Requirements for gas turbine fuels set forward by machine-building plants, designing and other organizations.

  2. Distillate gas turbine fuels:

    • Physical and chemical properties, including thermal stability.

    • High temperature corrosiveness of fuels towards metal alloys as dependent upon the fuel content of sulfur and vanadium.

    • Some data on commercial application and testing of fuels.

  3. Residual turbine fuels:

    • Vanadium and sulfur content in the U.S.S.R. crude oils and residual petroleum fuels.

    • Corrosiveness of the ash of crude oils, and other petroleum products, determined under stationary conditions.

    • High temperature gas corrosiveness of crude oils and residual petroleum products.

    • Effect of the fuel additives on the corrosiveness.

  4. Recommendations concerning the specifications for residual turbine fuels to be used in various gas turbine engines.

Résumé

CetIexposé couvre :

  1. Les spécifications relatives aux combustibles pour turbines à gaz comme elles ont été établies par les usines qui dessinent et fabriquent ces dernières et par d'autres organisations.

  2. Combustibles distillés pour turbines à gaz :

    • Propriétés physiques et chimiques y compris la stabilité thermale.

    • Corrosivité à haute température des combustibles envers les alliages métalliques. Cette corrosivité est fonction du taux en soufre et vanadium du combustible.

    • Quelques données sur l'application commerciale et les essais des combustibles.

  3. Taux en soufre et vanadium des bruts et combustibles résiduaires russes. (b) Corrosivité des résidus inorganiques des bruts et des produits pétroliers, determinée sous conditions stationnaires. (c) Corrosivité à haute température des bruts et des produits pétroliers résiduaires. (d) Effet des produits additifs sur la corrosivité.

  4. Recommendations sur les spécifications couvrant les combustibles résiduels utilisés dans divers moteurs à turbine.

INTRODUCTION

Low sulfur crudes having lower ash contents as compared with high sulfur crudes contain less vanadi-The production of fuels for gas turbines has become um as well as other contaminants, and are therefore of great importance due to wide application of gas favorable feed stocks for the production of gas turbine turbines. fuels.

Requirements for fuels used in gas turbines are less The U.S.S.R. sulfur and high-Sulfur crudes are severe as compared with those for fuels used in diesel characterized by high ash and vanadium content; the and carburettor engines. Such characteristics as dis- content of vanadium in these crudes reaches 0.015 %, tillation range, octane and cetane numbers and some while in the crudes from Tadzhikistan oil fields the others are not determinant with gas turbine fuels. percentage is even higher',2,3*4. Owing, however, to the There is, however, a numb

Keywords:
flowline corrosion, riser corrosion, gas turbine fuel, engine, Pipeline Corrosion, well integrity, corrosiveness, stability, gas turbine engine, requirement
Subjects:
Pipelines, Flowlines and Risers, Materials and corrosion, Well Integrity, Subsurface corrosion (tubing, casing, completion equipment, conductor)
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