Abstract
The future of the gas turbine business is steered by several factors. Business factors are a far greater influence on technology than the average engineer feels comfortable acknowledging. The gas turbine's technological progress depends on money just as much as it does human intellect. The gas turbine's future is also dictated by the size and growth of the different industrial sectors that use gas turbines. The capital available for and invested in a project ultimately gives gas turbine systems and technology the proving ground they require. The order in which relevant factors affect the business and their relative importance depend on the demographic circumstances and how they work in concert. Gas turbines in commercial marine applications are a relatively new field and activity here has stayed steady. Certain key developments are well known, and it is easy to identify where, when, and by whom they might have been originally designed. Designers continue to improve the gas turbine's technology with respect to burner residence time, flame temperature, cooling, and reading hot section temperatures. Some of the easier items to address in the drive for greater efficiency involve retrofitting modern transmission and distribution equipment.
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