Abstract
This paper presents the development of a gas turbine simulator based on an application of a real turbogenerator used to generate electricity on an offshore oil platform, the configuration is a turboshaft with free power turbine. The compressor, turbines and the control system were developed using specific methodologies. The development of the simulator was done using the Simulink environment in Matlab®. The development was done using blocks to represent each one of the main components in the engine. A stage stacking methodology based on the real geometry for each stage was adopted to create the compressor maps. The map was used in lookup tables blocks with help of auxiliary coordinates, also known as beta lines. To model both turbines were applied an ellipse equation also known as Stodola’s law. The engine simulator model was tested in an open loop and the results evaluated with the manual data from the engine.
