Cogenerative Below Ambient Gas Turbine (BAGT) Performance With Variable Thermal Power

2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bianchi ◽  
G. Negri di Montenegro ◽  
A. Peretto

The use of gas turbine and combined cycle power plants for thermal and electric power generation is, nowadays, a consolidated technology. Moreover, the employment of combined heat and power production, especially for low power requirements, is constantly increasing. In this scenario, below ambient pressure discharge gas turbine (BAGT) is an innovative and interesting application; the hot gases discharged from a gas turbine may be expanded below ambient pressure to obtain an increase in electric power generation. The gases are then cooled to supply heat to the thermal utility and finally recompressed to the ambient pressure. The power plant cogenerative performance depends on the heat and electric demand that usually varies during the year (for residential heating the heat to electric power ratio may range from 0.3 to 9). In this paper, the thermal load variation influence on the BAGT performance will be investigated and compared with those of gas turbine and combined cycle power plants.

Author(s):  
M. Bianchi ◽  
G. Negri di Montenegro ◽  
A. Peretto

The use of gas turbine and combined cycle power plants for thermal and electric power generation is, nowadays, a consolidated technology. Moreover the employment of combined heat and power production, especially for low power requirements, is constantly increasing. In this scenario, Below Ambient pressure discharge Gas Turbine (BAGT) is an innovative and interesting application; the hot gases discharged from a gas turbine may be expanded below ambient pressure to obtain an increase in electric power generation. The gases are then cooled to supply heat to the thermal utility and finally recompressed to the ambient pressure. The power plant cogenerative performance depends on the heat and electric demand that usually varies during the year (for residential heating the heat to electric power ratio may range from 0.3 to 9). In this paper, the thermal load variation influence on the BAGT performance will be investigated and compared with those of gas turbine and combined cycle power plants.


1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jermanok ◽  
R. E. Keith ◽  
E. F. Backhaus

A new 37-MW, single-shaft gas turbine power plant has been designed for electric power generation, for use in either simple-cycle or combined-cycle applications. This paper describes the design features, instrumentation, installation, test, and initial operation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Pinheiro Pupo Nogueira ◽  
André Frossard Pereira de Lucena ◽  
Régis Rathmann ◽  
Pedro Rua Rodriguez Rochedo ◽  
Alexandre Szklo ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
T. Mita ◽  
N. Ando ◽  
A. Kawauchi ◽  
K. Morikawa

A fully-fired combined cycle power plant (FFCCPP) combines a steam thermal power plant with a gas turbine. Hot exhaust gases fed from the gas turbine are used as combustion air for the boiler, thus increasing total plant output and efficiency. An unusually hot spell in Japan in the summer of 1990 brought about such a rapid surge in power demand for air conditioning so that all electric power companies registered record highs in consumption. This promoted Chubu Electric Power Co. to decide to add a 154-MW gas turbine to each of its six existing steam thermal power plants (four 700-MW and two 375-MW units), thus repowering their system into an FFCCPP. Construction work began in 1992. In September, 1994, two 700-MW steam thermal power plants (Chita Thermal Power Plant’s No. 6 unit and Chita Second Thermal Power Plant’s No. 1 unit) were modified into FFCCPPs, which then began operating in a trouble-free manner. This paper reports the characteristics and test-run results of the above two plants, which have been operating in good condition as the largest-capacity FFCCPPs in the world.


1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jermanok ◽  
G. A. Ludwig

A new 37-MW, single-shaft gas turbine power plant has been designed for electric power generation, for use in either simple-cycle or combined-cycle applications. This paper describes the evolution, design features, performance, and test program.


Author(s):  
J. C. Rucigay ◽  
A. J. Orsino

A new 100 MW gas turbine has been designed for electric power generation for either simple cycle or combined cycle applications. This paper describes the basis for design, new design features, performance, and test program.


2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (12) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Lee S. Langston

This article presents an overview of gas turbine combined cycle (CCGT) power plants. Modern CCGT power plants are producing electric power as high as half a gigawatt with thermal efficiencies approaching the 60% mark. In a CCGT power plant, the gas turbine is the key player, driving an electrical generator. Heat from the hot gas turbine exhaust is recovered in a heat recovery steam generator, to generate steam, which drives a steam turbine to generate more electrical power. Thus, it is a combined power plant burning one unit of fuel to supply two sources of electrical power. Most of these CCGT plants burn natural gas, which has the lowest carbon content of any other hydrocarbon fuel. Their near 60% thermal efficiencies lower fuel costs by almost half compared to other gas-fired power plants. Their installed capital cost is the lowest in the electric power industry. Moreover, environmental permits, necessary for new plant construction, are much easier to obtain for CCGT power plants.


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