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2. Joule cycle and derived cycles. Gas and combustion turbines
2.1 Joule cycle
The basic cycle of gas turbines (GT) is the Joule cycle, and although most of these machines are actually internal combustion engines, for this reason still called combustion turbines (CT), the elementary analysis of their operation uses the notion of cyclic evolution of the thermodynamic fluid: a gas.
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Joule cycle and derived cycles. Gas and combustion turbines