ABSTRACT
This chapter is analogous to the 30-min warmup before a basketball game. Key terminology, concepts and selected, basic estimation methods (charts, transfer functions, etc.) are covered in a single narrative so that the reader is “acclimated” to the subject of gas turbine combined cycle power plants. It is highly recommended that the reader goes through this chapter in one sitting when he or she picks up this book for the first time. It is highly likely that even those readers who spent decades in the field can find a few nuggets in this particular chapter.
