TY - JOUR A1 - Sadig, H. A1 - Sulaiman, S.A. A1 - Ibrahim, I. JF - Applied Mechanics and Materials UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84891932573&doi=10.4028%2fwww.scientific.net%2fAMM.465-466.142&partnerID=40&md5=570ac0a3eac4cf29a56468ffcd7c9f0f VL - 465-46 Y1 - 2014/// N2 - A theoretical exergetic analysis of a small-scale gas-turbine system fueled with two different syngas fuels is discussed in this paper. For carrying out the analysis, a micro-gas turbine system with a thermal heat input of 50 kW was simulated using ASPEN plus simulator. Quantitative exergy balance was applied for each component in the cycle. The effects of excess air, ambient air temperature, and heat input on the exergy destruction and exergetic efficiency for each component were evaluated and compared with those resulted from fueling the system with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). For 50 kW heat input and 50 excess air, the total exergy destruction for LPG, Syngas1, and Syngas2 were found to be 17.3, 14.3, and 13.6 kW, respectively. It was found that increasing the excess air ratio to 100 increased the combustion chamber exergetic efficiency by 8-10 but it reduced the exergetic efficiency of other components. The same trend was observed when tested ambient air temperature. The results also showed a reduction in the combustion chamber exergetic efficiency by 2-4 when a 20 heat input increase was applied. © (2014) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland. ID - scholars4425 KW - Ambient air temperature; Aspen Plus Simulators; Exergetic efficiency; Exergy Analysis; Exergy destructions; Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); Simulation; Syn-gas KW - Atmospheric temperature; Combustion chambers; Computer software; Gas turbines; Industrial engineering; Liquefied petroleum gas; Synthesis gas KW - Exergy CY - Bangi-Putrajaya EP - 148 SN - 16609336 N1 - cited By 0; Conference of 4th International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, ICME 2013 ; Conference Date: 17 December 2013 Through 18 December 2013; Conference Code:101955 TI - Exergy analysis of a micro-gas turbine fueled with syngas SP - 142 AV - none ER -