Gas Turbine Handbook : Principles and Practices

Chart 8-1 Gas Turbine Environments
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ENVIRONMENT RURAL COASTAL LARGE CITES INDUSTRIAL DESERTS TROPICAL ARCTIC MOBILE
COUNTRY AND (POWER STATIONS AREAS (SAND STORMS, INSTALLATIONS
SIDE PLATFORM CHEMICAL PLANTS) (STEEL WORKS, DUSTY GROUND)
PETRO-CHEM.
MINING)
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WEATHER DRY AND SUNNY, DRY AND SUNNY, DRY AND SUNNY, RAIN DRY AND SUNNY, RAIN LONG, DRY, SUNNY, HIGH HUMIDITY HEAVY SNOW All POSSIBLE
CONDITIONS RAIN, SNOW, RAIN, SNOW, SEA SHOW, HAIL STONES, SNOW, HAIL STONES, SPELLS; HIGH WINDS; TROPICAL RAIN HIGH WINDS, WEATHER
FOG MIST, FREEZING SMOG SMOG SAND AND DUST INSECT AND ICING CONDITIONS CONDITIONS
FOG IN WINTER STORMS; MOSQUITO SWARMS INSECT SWARMS IN
SOME RAIN SUMMERTIME IN
SOME AREAS
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TEMPERATURE
RANGE °F -4 to +86 –4 to +77 –4 to +95 –4 to +95 +23 to +113 +41 to +113 –40 to +41 –22 to +113
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TYPES OF DRY, NON- DRY, NON-EROSIVE SOOTY-OILY; SOOTY-OILY; EROSIVE; DRY, EROSIVE IN SAND NON-EROSIVE NON-EROSIVE DRY, EROSIVE,
DUST EROSIVE BUT SALT PARTI- MAY BE EROSIVE, MAY BE CORROSIVE STORM AREAS; FINE MAY CAUSE SOOTY-OILY,
CLES EXIST; ALSO CORROSIVE TALC-LIKE IN AREAS FOULING CORROSIVE
CORROSIVE MIST OF NON-SAND STORMS,
BUT DUSTY GROUND
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DUST
CONCENTRATION
gr/1000 ft. 3 0.004-0.0436 0.004-0.0436 0.01-0.13 0.043-4.36 0.04-306 0.004-0.10 0.004-0.10 0.04-306
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PARTICLE 0.01 - 3.0 .01 - 3.0 .01 - 10.0 .01 - (50)* 1 - (500)** .01 - 10.0 .01 - 10.0 .01 - (500)***
SIZE Salt 5.0
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EFFECT ON MINIMAL CORROSION FOULING EROSION EROSION FOULING PLUGGING OF AIR FOULING
G.T. SOMETIMES SOMETIMES CORROSION INTAKE SYSTEM EROSION
CORROSION AND CORROSION AND WITH SNOW AND CORROSION
FOULING FOULING ICE
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* IN EMISSION AREAS OF CHIMNEYS
** DURING SEVERE SAND STORMS
*** AT TRACK LEVEL AND/OR DURING DUST STORMS
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