Acronyms
ABB Asea Brown Boveri
ABRT Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology
AC ammonium carbonate
ACC active clearance control
ADC adjusted direct cooling
ADH advanced diffusion healing
AI Artificial intelligence
AIC adjusted indirect cooling
AMB active magnetic bearings
AOH Actual Operating Hours
APS Arizona Public Service's
APU Auxiliary Power Units
ARC Albany Research Center
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASU air separation unit
ATF Altitude Test Facility
ATS Advanced Turbine System
AVA Aerodynamische Versuchs-Anstalt
AVT All-Volatile Equipment
BAT best available technology
BFO blended fuel oil
BOOT build, own, operate, transfer
BOP balance of plant
BOV blow-off valves
BP booster pump
BPST Back-Pressure Steam Turbine
BVM Blade Vibration Monitor
CAS close air support
CC Combined-Cycle Power Plan
CCPP combined cycle power plant
CDA controlled diffusion airfoils
CE Coulombic efficiency
CEC Community Environmental Council
CEM continuous emission monitoring
CF cycle fatigue
CFCC continuous fiber reinforced ceramic composites
CFD computational fluid dynamic
CHP Combined Heat and Power Plant
CMC ceramic matrix composite
CMM coordinate measurement machine
CMS condition monitoring system
CO carbon monoxide
COD chemical oxygen demand
COG Coke Oven Gas
CP Constant Pressure
CPP captive power plant
CPUC California Public Utilities Commission
CSP concentrating solar power
CV Constant Volume
DCS Distributed Control System
DDA direct drive alternator
DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources
DLE Dry Low Emissions
DLN dry low NOx
DOE The US Department of Energy
DS directionally solidification
DSS Daily Start and Stop
EAM electronics assembly module
EC engineering criteria
ECMS Engine Condition Monitoring Systems
EEL Exxon Energy Limited
EGAT Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand
EGR Exhaust Gas Recirculation
EGT European Gas Turbine
EIA Energy Information Administration
EOH equivalent operating hours
EOH equivalent operating hours
EPA engine performance analysis
EPC Engineering, Procurement, and Construction
EPDC Electric Power Development Co.
EPEC Existing Plants, Emissions & Capture
ESR effective structural repair
ESS engine section stator
ETATH Thermal efficiency for shaft power engines
ETN European Turbine network
FADEC full-authority digital engine controls
FBH front bearing housing
FCCU fluid catalytic cracking units
FCFC full coverage film cooling
FGD flue gas desulfurization
FHV fuel heating value
FIC fixed indirect cooling
FOCM Fiber Optic Communication Module
FOG Finex Oven Gas
FOVM Fiber Optic Vibration Monitor
FPA fuel purchase agreement
FT Fischer-Tropsch
GE General Electric's
GEAE General Electric Aircraft Engine
GG gas generator
GM General Motors
GT GAS TURBINE
GTCU gas turbine change unit
GTUA Gas Turbine Users Association
HAP hazardous air pollutants
HAT humid air turbine
HCF high-cycle fatigue
HEFPP High Efficiency Fossil Power Plants
HFO Heavy Fuel Oil
HGP hot-gas-path
HHV higher heating value
HIP hot isostatic pressing
HMIP Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution
HP High Pressure
HPC high-pressure compressor
HRATE Heat rate for shaft power cycles
HRSG heat recovery steam generator
HTDU high temperature demonstration unit
IAE International Aero Engines
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IBA independent bearing assembly
IEEE Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
IGCC Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
IGV Inlet Guide Vane
IHPTET Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology
IMO International Maritime Organisation
IOR improved oil recovery
IP Infrared Pyrometry
IP intermediate pressure
IPC Integrated Pollution Control
IPC intermediate pressure compressor
IPG International Power Generation
IPP independent power producers
IR infra-red
IR Ingersoll Rand
ISA International Standard Atmosphere
ITM ion transport membrane
JDF Japan, the DME forum
JSF Joint Strike Fighter
LCA life cycle analysis
LCA life cycle assessment
LCC Life Cycle Cost
LCF low-cycle fatigue
LD liquidated damages
LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
LHV lower heating value
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LNCFS low NOx concentric firing system
LP Low Pressure
LPG Liquefied petroleum gas
LSB last stage blades
LTSA long-term service agreements
MAT moisture air turbine
MCA multiple circular arc
MCFC molten carbonate fuel cell
MCR maximum continuous rating
MFC Microbial fuel cells
MI Minor inspection
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry
MMI man-machine interface
MPI multi-passage injector
MPS Mitsubishi Power Systems
MSF multistage flash
MTU Motoren Turbinen Union
NG Natural Gas
NGTE National Gas Turbine Establishment
NIC newly industrialized country
NO nitrogen oxides
NPC National Power Corporation
NREC Northern Research and Engineering Company
OA overfire air
OEM Original engine manufacturers
OGV outlet guide vanes
OHSU Oregon Health and Science University
OMCR Oil Movements Control Room
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OTM oxygen transport membrane
PA performance analysis
PA performance assessment
PAE Project application engineers
PAH Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
PC pressure compressor
PCA parametric cycle analysis
PCC Post-combustion capture
PCFBC pressurized circulating fluidized-bed combustion
PCS Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore
PDI Product Design and Improvement
PDP Siemens Product Development Process
PEM polymer electrolyte membrane
PFBC pressurized fluidized-bed combustion
PHCR Power House Control Room
PI power island
PM Particulate matter
PMG Power Marketing Group
PR pressure ratio
PRDS Pressure Relieving Desuperheating Station
PT personal turbine
PTC Performance Test Code
PTET power turbine entry temperature
PV Paxman Valenta
QC quality control
RAM reliability-availability-maintainability
RBT Resistance Bulb Thermometers
RC Rankine Cycle
RCC Residue Catalytic Cracker
RCT refinery crude train
RFG Refinery Fuel Gas
RFM Radio Frequency Monitor
RFP request for proposal
RH relative humidity
RIC reactive ion coating
ROI return on investment
RPS Renewable Portfolio Standard
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RR Rolls Royce
SAE scale altitude effect
SAGBO stress assisted grain boundary oxidation
SB service bulletin
SB service bulletins
SCE Southern California Edison
SCR selective catalytic reduction
SEV sequential environmental
SFC specific fuel consumption
SFR steam fuel ratio
SGT Siemens Westinghouse's
SGT Small Gas Turbine
SIL sound intensity level
SMP standard maintenance procedures
SOFC solid oxide fuel cell
SOP standard operating procedures
SPL sound pressure level
SPP small power producers
SPW Specific power or thrust
SRB surface reaction braze
SRI sound reduction index
ST static temperature
ST Steam Turbine
STOL short takeoff and landing
STOVL short/vertical takeoff/landing
SWPC Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
T/C Thermocouple
TBA Test Bed Analysis
TBC Thermal Barrier Coating
TCM Test Centre Mongstad
TCP Topologically close-packed
TDS Total Dissolved Solids
TE Temperature Element
TF tangential firing
TFO treated fuel oil
TGA thermo gravimetric analysis
TGO thermally grown oxide
TI Turbulence Intensity
TIT turbo inlet temperature
TMF thermal-mechanical fatigue
TNB Tenaga Nasional Berhad
TOC Total Organic Carbon
TRU thrust reverser unit
TSC Turbine Stress Controller
TSTC Texas State Technical College
TT temperature transmitter
UAE United Arab Emirates
UCG underground coal gasification
USAFA US Air Force Academy
USC ST Ultra Supercritical Steam
VA vibration analysis
VAN variable area nozzles
VCRF Vertical Combustion Research Facility
VDU visual display unit
VGV variable guide vanes
VIS Viscosity
VM vibration monitoring
VOC volatile organic compounds
VPC variable production cost
VR variable reluctance
VTOL Vertical takeoff and landing
VWO valve wide open
WB World Bank
WFO Waste Fuel Oil
WI Wobbe Index
WW World War
