Abstract
This study focuses on an analysis of the compressor performance of a micro gas turbine to realize an improved micro gas turbine design. For this purpose, the performance of the compressor is determined, and the results are feedback for an experiment. Heat transfer impacts greatly the performance of whole micro gas turbine than other gas turbine because the distance between the compressor and the turbine or combustor is small in micro gas turbines. The obtained values when heat transfer is not considered did not satisfy the design requirements. Therefore, the compressor model could not perform sufficiently well. Furthermore, when heat transfer is considered in the model, a decrease of approximately 32% is observed in the compressor performance in comparison to models in which heat transfer is not considered.
