The inlet fogging of gas turbines for power augmentation has seen increasing application over the past decade, but little information about the physics and engineering of the process is available.

Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting, and scaling.

It is truly ironic that air-cooled refrigeration and air conditioning systems perform at their worst, when they are needed the most. The same system that produces 95 tons of cooling when the ambient ...

Compressed air foam systems (CAFS) are making their way into more and more departments across the United States; one manufacturer estimates that up to 4 percent of new apparatus are coming ...