A new component map generation method for gas turbine adaptation performance simulation

The accuracy of component maps significantly affects gas turbine performance simulation results. Unfortunately, the information in component maps is usually insufficient to performance simulation. In this paper, a new compressor map generation method is presented with the primary objective of improving the accuracy of the gas turbine performance simulation model under insufficient information. In this method, the compressor map is first generated as an initial map according to the operating points determined by a set of steady-state operating data, and the coefficients that determine the shape of the compressor map are analyzed and tuned through a multi-objective optimization scheme to match multiple sets of transient data. To verify the validity of the new method, an LM2500 compressor map from the public literature was generated and the results were compared with those of existing fitting methods. Furthermore, the new map generation method, developed in Simulink, was implemented in a dynamic gas turbine model and tested in off-design steady-state and transient conditions. The results showed that the method is able to overcome the shortcomings of the existing methods and to effectively improve the accuracy of the gas turbine performance model under insufficient information.