GSP components > Component Libraries

Gas path components represent elements in the model of the gas turbine process and have up to 2 inlets and/or 2 exits.

Gas path components have (in most cases) the following modeling elements in common:

•Heat soakage effects (dynamic thermal effects on transient performance), specified in the Heat soakage tab sheet.

•Heat sink effects (steady-state and transient heat transfer effects among components and/or with ambient), specified in the Heat sink tab sheet. The gas path component can be connected to one or more heat sink components in the heat sink table. Each row in the table represents a connection with a heat sink with separate user specified heat transfer model data.

•Volume effects (dynamic effects on transient performance)

The gas path components are included in the following libraries:

•Gas Path Component Library
Contains the standard single input link and/or output(exit) link gas path components.

•Multi in/out Component Library
Contains multiple input link and/or output link gas path components (e.g. flow splitters/joiners, multi flow etc.).

•Special Gas Path Component Library
Contains specific custom gas path components.