scholarly journals Comparing the sustainability impacts of solar thermal and natural gas combined cycle for electricity production in Mexico: Accounting for decision makers’ priorities

Author(s):  
Irene Rodríguez-Serrano ◽  
Natalia Caldés ◽  
Christian Oltra ◽  
Roser Sala
2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 686
Author(s):  
Susie Smith

Transforming the way Australia produces and uses energy must be a cornerstone of a national response to addressing greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas can deliver significant greenhouse gas emission reductions at a fraction of the cost of alternative technologies. To drive this forward, industry is looking for policy certainty and a level playing field. Furthermore, there exists the opportunity to leverage other low emission technologies from gas—for example, the integration of natural gas combined cycle generation with a solar thermal array offers an opportunity to enable the early deployment of solar thermal technology in Australia. Integration can deliver a power outcome at lower cost and with higher conversion efficiencies than an equivalent stand-alone solar thermal facility.


Author(s):  
Günnur Şen ◽  
Mustafa Nil ◽  
Hayati Mamur ◽  
Halit Doğan ◽  
Mustafa Karamolla ◽  
...  

Natural gas combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) are widely used to meet peak loads in electric energy production. Continuous monitoring of the output electrical power of CCPPs is a requirement for power performance. In this study, the role of ambient temperature change having the greatest effect on electric production is investigated for a natural gas CCPP. The plant has generated electricity for fourteen years and setup at 240 MW in Aliağa, İzmir, Turkey. Depending on the seasonal temperature changes, the study data were obtained from each gas turbine (GT), steam turbine (ST) and combined cycle blocks (CCBs) in the ambient temperature range of 8-23°C. It has been found that decreases of the electric energy in the GTs because of the temperature increase and indirectly diminishes of the electricity production in the STs. As a result, the efficiency of each GT, ST and CCB reduced, although the quantity of fuel consumed by the controllers in the plant was decreased. As a result of this data, it has been recommended and applied that additional precautions have been taken for the power plant to bring the air entering the combustion chamber to ideal conditions and necessary air cooling systems have been installed.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma J. Kuehn ◽  
Kajal Mukherjee ◽  
Paul Phiambolis ◽  
Lora L. Pinkerton ◽  
Elsy Varghese ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 2394-2401
Author(s):  
Satoshi Saito ◽  
Norihide Egami ◽  
Toshihisa Kiyokuni ◽  
Mitsuru Udatsu ◽  
Hideo Kitamura ◽  
...  

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