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During the past decade environmental and sustainability issues have become major problems to overcome since they have caused regional and global consequences. This paper discusses the environmental and sustainability aspects of Gas Turbine (GT) based aviation Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) analyzed with the aid of exergy. Exergy analysis is a potential tool to determine exergy destructions and losses and their true magnitudes and exact locations. In this study some exergy based parameters such as: exergetic efficiency, waste exergy ratio, exergy recoverability ratio, exergy destruction ratio, environmental impact factor, and exergetic sustainability index are proposed and investigated. Cycle operating parameters such as compressor-pressure-ratio (rp,c), Turbine Inlet Temperature (TIT) have been chosen for analysis of the gas turbine cycle based APU. Mathematical modeling of the cycle has been done and the same has been coded in MATLAB.

This paper deals with the exergo-environmental analysis of gas turbine with possible application as aviation auxiliary-power-unit (APU). The present work reports a comparison of thermodynamic performance, NOx and CO emission for basic gas turbine cycle (BGT) and intercooled-recuperated gas turbine (IcRcGT) cycle based engines for possible use by the aviation industry as auxiliary power unit (APU). In addition to this environmental sustainability index of these two cycles is also presented. Various cycle operating parameters such as compressor-pressure-ratio (rp,c), combustor-primary-zone-temperature, equivalence-ratio, and residence time have been chosen for analysis of the cycles. Mathematical modeling of the cycles has been done and the same have been coded in MATLAB. Results show that IcRcGT cycle exhibits higher gas turbine power output and gas turbine efficiency in comparison to BGT cycle for the same rp,c and turbine inlet temperature (TIT).