To clean your compressor, work 'inside out' Conventional methods for gas-turbine compressor cleaning are most effective at cleaning the least important aerodynamic surfaces, and least effective at cleaning the most important. The 'inside-out' method has been shown to more thoroughly clean--and smooth off--the airfoil surfaces From: Power | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Butler, J Jeff | Copyright 2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Gas-turbine operations and maintenance crews continually work to slow the turbine's rate of performance degradation, by reducing compressor fouling. Because of the tremendous amounts of air that gas turbines ingest, sticky vapors and minute dirt particles collect on compressor airfoils, even with the best air filtering systems. This "sticky dirt" not only clogs air passages but--more important--roughens the airfoil surfaces, thus causing laminar airflow to become turbulent. It is this turbule...

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