Thermo-Economic Analysis of Inlet Air Conditioning Methods of a Cogeneration Gas Turbine Plant

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Nixdorf ◽  
A. Prelipceanu ◽  
D. Hein
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Evaporative Cooling ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Air Cooling ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Reference Case ◽  
Turbine Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine Plant

The purpose of this work is to investigate the benefits of some different ambient air conditioning methods for reducing the gas turbine intake air temperature in order to enhance the gas turbine power. As a reference case the combined heat and power plant of the campus area of the Technische Universita¨t Mu¨nchen in Garching is considered, which is equipped with an Allison KH501 Cheng Cycle gas turbine. Three novel technical possibilities of ambient air cooling and power augmentation are shown in detail (desiccant dehumidification and evaporative cooling, absorption chiller unit with air cooler, evaporative cooling at increased inlet air pressure). Based on site ambient conditions and measured yearly load lines for heat and electrical power connected with actual cost functions, the potential economic savings are worked out for the different technical modifications using ambient air cooling for power augmentation of the gas turbine plant. The economic operation lines for power and heat, supplied by the modified gas turbine plant, are calculated by a cost optimization system. The results are compared based on investment costs and economic savings by the extended annual electrical and thermal power production of the modified gas turbine plant.

Using Experimental Data for Predicting Performance and Emissions of a Real Gas Turbine Plant

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Lazzaretto ◽  
Andrea Toffolo ◽  
Sebastiano Trolese
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantities ◽  
Emission Model ◽  
Ambient Conditions ◽  
Turbine Plant ◽  
Real Gas ◽  
Gas Turbine Plant

Precise performance evaluation at design and off-design operations is needed for a correct management of power plants. This need is particularly strong in gas turbine power plants which can quickly react to load variations and are very sensitive to ambient conditions. The paper aims at presenting a simple tool to determine the values of the thermodynamic quantities in each point of the plant and the overall plant performances of a real gas turbine plant. Starting from experimental data, a zero-dimensional model is developed which properly considers the effect of ambient conditions and water injection for pollutant abatement at different load settings under the action of the control system. An emission model taken from the literature is also included, after tuning on experimental data, to predict carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide pollution.

scholarly journals Technical and economic assessment of the parameters of thermal schemes of thermal power plants with a hydrogen generator

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
G. E. Marin ◽  
B. M. Osipov ◽  
A. R. Akhmetshin
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Turbine Unit ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Gas Turbine Unit ◽  
Turbine Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine Plant

THE PURPOSE. The study is aimed at studying the effect of fuel gases of various component composition on the environmental performance of the GE 6FA gas turbine unit. Consider using hydrogen as primary sweat to minimize emissions and improve performance of the GE 6FA gas turbine. METHODS. To achieve this goal, the ASGRET (Automated system for gas-dynamic calculations of power turbomachines) software package was used. RESULTS. The article discusses promising directions for the utilization of CO2 using highly efficient technologies with further use or disposal. A mathematical model of a GE 6FA gas turbine unit, diagrams of changes in the main characteristics and the composition of emissions when operating on various types of fuel, including hydrogen, are presented. CONCLUSION. The studies carried out show that a change in the component composition of the gas affects the energy characteristics of the engine. The method for determining the quantitative composition of COx, NOx, SOx in the exhaust gases of a gas turbine plant is presented. The transition to the reserve fuel kerosene leads to an increase in the amount of emissions, which must be taken into account when designing systems for capturing harmful emissions with a dual-fuel fuel gas supply system. The use of hydrogen as a fuel for gas turbines allows to reduce not only the cost of fuel preparation, but also to minimize emissions and improve the performance of the gas turbine plant.

Thermodynamic Analysis of Air-Cooled Gas Turbine Plants

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Khodak ◽  
G. A. Romakhova
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Thermodynamic System ◽  
Flow Diagram ◽  
Air Cooling ◽  
Open Steam ◽  
Turbine Plant ◽  
Turbine Cooling ◽  
Gas Turbine Plant

At present high temperature, internally cooled gas turbines form the basis for the development of highly efficient plants for utility and industrial markets. Minimizing irreversibility of processes in all components of a gas turbine plant leads to greater plant efficiency. Turbine cooling, like all real processes, is an irreversible process and results in lost opportunity for producing work. Traditional tools based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics enable performance parameters of a plant to be evaluated, but they give no way of separating the losses due to cooling from the overall losses. This limitation arises from the fact that the two processes, expansion and cooling, go on simultaneously in the turbine. Part of the cooling losses are conventionally attributed to the turbine losses. This study was intended for the direct determination of lost work due to cooling. To this end, a cooled gas turbine plant has been treated as a work-producing thermodynamic system consisting of two systems that exchange heat with one another. The concepts of availability and exergy have been used in the analysis of such a system. The proposed approach is applicable to gas turbines with various types of cooling: open-air, closed-steam, and open-steam cooling. The open-air cooling technology has found the most wide application in current gas turbines. Using this type of cooling as an example, the potential of the developed method is shown. Losses and destructions of exergy in the conversion of the fuel exergy into work are illustrated by the exergy flow diagram.

A Thermo-Environmental Evaluation of a Modified Combustion Gas Turbine Plant

2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Khaliq ◽  
M. A. Habib ◽  
Keshavendra Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Air Cooling ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Turbine Plant ◽  
Combustion Gas ◽  
Ambient Relative Humidity ◽  
Co Concentration ◽  
Gas Turbine Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine Cycle

This paper reports the comprehensive thermodynamic modeling of a modified combustion gas turbine plant where Brayton refrigeration cycle was employed for inlet air cooling along with evaporative after cooling. Exergetic evaluation was combined with the emission computation to ascertain the effects of operating variables like extraction pressure ratio, extracted mass rate, turbine inlet temperature (TIT), ambient relative humidity, and mass of injected water on the thermo-environmental performance of the gas turbine cycle. Investigation of the proposed gas turbine cycle revealed an exergetic output of 33%, compared to 29% for base case. Proposed modification in basic gas turbine shows a drastic reduction in cycle's exergy loss from 24% to 3% with a considerable decrease in the percentage of local irreversibility of the compressor from 5% to 3% along with a rise in combustion irreversibility from 19% to 21%. The environmental advantage of adding evaporative after cooling to gas turbine cycle along with inlet air cooling can be seen from the significant reduction of NOx from 40 g/kg of fuel to 1 × 10−9 g/kg of fuel with the moderate increase of CO concentration from 36 g/kg of fuel to 99 g/kg of fuel when the fuel–air equivalence ratio reduces from 1.0 to 0.3. Emission assessment further reveals that the increase in ambient relative humidity from 20% to 80% causes a considerable reduction in NOx concentration from 9.5 to 5.8 g/kg of fuel while showing a negligible raise in CO concentration from 4.4 to 5.0 g/kg of fuel.

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