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While air is being compressed in a centrifugal flow gas turbine, what happens to the direction of air flow?

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While air is being compressed in a centrifugal flow gas turbine, what happens to the direction of air flow?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Basic construction and airflow path of a centrifugal flow compressor • Difference between axial flow and radial/centrifugal flow compressors • How air moves through inlet, impeller, diffuser, and discharge in a centrifugal compressor

💭 Think About

• Sketch or visualize the airflow path through a centrifugal compressor: does it stay straight, curve, or change multiple times? • Ask yourself: as air goes from the eye of the impeller, through the impeller blades, and into the diffuser, is its direction constant or being turned? • Consider whether any part of the compressor simply "lets air out" without changing its direction first.

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear on what a centrifugal (radial) compressor actually does to the airflow direction, compared to a straight-through axial compressor • Identify how many distinct stages or components inside the compressor actively turn or redirect the flow • Verify whether the inlet and outlet alone are the only places where direction could change, or if internal parts also redirect the air

Question 1 of 27070

While air is being compressed in a centrifugal flow gas turbine, what happens to the direction of air flow?

Changes only once from inlet to outlet

Changes only at the compressor discharge

Changes at each separate component

Changes only at the compressor inlet

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While air is being compressed in a centrifugal flow gas turbine, what happens to the direction of air flow?

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While air is being compressed in a centrifugal flow gas turbine, what happens to the direction of air flow?