Conversion of Sulfur Dioxide to Sulfur Trioxide in Gas Turbine Exhaust

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. W. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Gas Turbine Engines ◽  
Boiler Tubes ◽  
Cycle Systems ◽  
Marine Diesel ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Acid dewpoints were calculated from SO2-to-SO3 conversion in gas turbine exhaust. These data can be used as guidelines in setting feedwater temperatures in combined-cycle systems. Accurate settings can prevent corrosion of heat-exchanger (boiler) tubes, thus extending their life time. This study was done using gas turbine engines and a laboratory generator set. The units burned marine diesel or diesel No. 2 fuel with sulfur contents up to 1.3 percent. The exhaust from these systems contained an excess of 20 percent oxygen, and 3–10 percent water vapor. Exhaust temperatures ranged from 728 to 893 K (455 to 620°C).

Performance Entitlement of Supercritical Steam Bottoming Cycle

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Can Gülen
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Cycle Systems ◽  
Steam Boilers ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

A supercritical steam bottoming cycle has been proposed as a performance enhancement option for gas turbine combined cycle power plants. The technology has been widely used in coal-fired steam turbine power plants since the 1950s and can be considered a mature technology. Its application to the gas-fired combined cycle systems presents unique design challenges due to the much lower gas temperatures (i.e., 650 °C at the gas turbine exhaust vis-à-vis 2000 °C in fossil fuel-fired steam boilers). Thus, the potential impact of the supercritical steam conditions is hampered to the point of economic infeasibility. This technical brief draws upon the second-law based exergy concept to rigorously quantify the performance entitlement of a supercritical high-pressure boiler section in a heat recovery steam generator utilizing the exhaust of a gas turbine to generate steam for power generation in a steam turbine.

Gas Turbine Exhaust Expansion Joints, Diverter and Damper Designs for the New Generation of Higher Temperature, High Efficiency Gas Turbines

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lothar Bachmann ◽  
W. Fred Koch
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Expansion Joints ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

The purpose of this paper is to update the industry on the evolutionary steps that have been taken to address higher requirements imposed on the new generation combined cycle gas turbine exhaust ducting expansion joints, diverter and damper systems. Since the more challenging applications are in the larger systems, we shall concentrate on sizes from nine (9) square meters up to forty (40) square meters in ducting cross sections. (Reference: General Electric Frame 5 through Frame 9 sizes.) Severe problems encountered in gas turbine applications for the subject equipment are mostly traceable to stress buckling caused by differential expansion of components, improper insulation, unsuitable or incompatible mechanical design of features, components or materials, or poor workmanship. Conventional power plant expansion joints or dampers are designed for entirely different operating conditions and should not be applied in gas turbine applications. The sharp transients during gas turbine start-up as well as the very high temperature and high mass-flow operation conditions require specific designs for gas turbine application.

Combustion Performance in a Semiclosed Cycle Gas Turbine for IGCC Fired With CO-Rich Syngas and Oxy-Recirculated Exhaust Streams

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeharu Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Coal Gasification ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Equilibrium Concentration ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Reaction Heat ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
Coal Fuel ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Our study found that burning a CO-rich gasified coal fuel, derived from an oxygen–CO2 blown gasifier, with oxygen under stoichiometric conditions in a closed cycle gas turbine produced a highly-efficient, oxy-fuel integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power generation system with CO2 capture. We diluted stoichiometric combustion with recycled gas turbine exhaust and adjusted for given temperatures. Some of the exhaust was used to feed coal into the gasifier. In doing so, we found it necessary to minimize not only CO and H2 of unburned fuel constituents but also residual O2, not consumed in the gas turbine combustion process. In this study, we examined the emission characteristics of gasified-fueled stoichiometric combustion with oxygen through numerical analysis based on reaction kinetics. Furthermore, we investigated the reaction characteristics of reactant gases of CO, H2, and O2 remaining in the recirculating gas turbine exhaust using present numerical procedures. As a result, we were able to clarify that since fuel oxidation reaction is inhibited due to reasons of exhaust recirculation and lower oxygen partial pressure, CO oxidization is very sluggish and combustion reaction does not reach equilibrium at the combustor exit. In the case of a combustor exhaust temperature of 1573 K (1300 °C), we estimated that high CO exhaust emissions of about a few percent, in tens of milliseconds, corresponded to the combustion gas residence time in the gas turbine combustor. Combustion efficiency was estimated to reach only about 76%, which was a lower value compared to H2/O2-fired combustion while residual O2 in exhaust was 2.5 vol%, or five times as much as the equilibrium concentration. On the other hand, unburned constituents in an expansion turbine exhaust were slowed to oxidize in a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) flue processing, and exhaust gases reached equilibrium conditions. In this regard, however, reaction heat in HRSG could not devote enough energy for combined cycle thermal efficiency, making advanced combustion technology necessary for achieving highly efficient, oxy-fuel IGCC.

Thermal Preconditioning of Coal/Water Mixtures for Gas Turbine Applications

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Roffe ◽  
Gabriel Miller
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Heat Rate ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Gas Turbine Engines ◽  
Initial Examination ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Char Burnout ◽  
Initial Flame ◽  
Thermal Preconditioning

Thermal preconditioning of coal/water mixtures (CWM) is a process proposed for use with stationary gas turbine engines. The CWM is heated before delivery to the combustor to vaporize the water and to pyrolyze and devolatilize the coal prior to injection. The process offers a number of potential advantages. Engines can be started without the use of an auxiliary fuel system, atomizing nozzles are eliminated, flame stability is increased, and char burnout is accelerated as a result of increased initial flame intensity. This project was an initial examination of technical questions affecting the feasibility and utility of the process. Heat transfer rates were measured for high solids loadings CWM in tubular heaters, the influence of the boiling process was studied, devolatilization rates were measured for the conditions of interest in gas turbine applications, the potential for organic sulfur volatilization was assessed and the effect of the process on heat rate for a combined cycle power plant was examined. The results of this initial examination showed the process to be both technically and economically feasible. CWM was vaporized and devolatilized in a small heat exchanger and a clearly defined steam/char/volatile suspension was produced. Temperatures of 750K to 870K and residence times of less than 1 second were found to be adequate to complete the process.

scholarly journals Sensor and Actuator Needs for More Intelligent Gas Turbine Engines

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Garg ◽  
Klaus Schadow ◽  
Wolfgang Horn ◽  
Hugo Pfoertner ◽  
Ion Stiharu
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Gas Turbine Engines ◽  
Defense Acquisition ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Aerospace Research ◽  
Advanced Technologies

This paper provides an overview of the controls and diagnostics technologies, that are seen as critical for more intelligent gas turbine engines (GTE), with an emphasis on the sensor and actuator technologies that need to be developed for the controls and diagnostics implementation. The objective of the paper is to help the “Customers” of advanced technologies, defense acquisition and aerospace research agencies, understand the state-of-the-art of intelligent GTE technologies, and help the “Researchers” and “Technology Developers” for GTE sensors and actuators identify what technologies need to be developed to enable the “Intelligent GTE” concepts and focus their research efforts on closing the technology gap. To keep the effort manageable, the focus of the paper is on “On-Board Intelligence” to enable safe and efficient operation of the engine over its life time, with an emphasis on gas path performance.

Coating Pre-Cracking Effect in Combined Cycle Fatigue Tests of Superalloys for Gas Turbine Blades

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Filippini ◽  
Stefano Foletti ◽  
Giuseppe Pasquero
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Fatigue Testing ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Nickel Superalloy ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Gas Turbine Engines ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Polycrystalline Nickel

In gas turbine engines for aerospace propulsion, the application of coatings on HP and LP stage blading where the highest temperatures are experienced is a common practice to prevent environmental degradation. However, since the strength of the coating is lower than that of the substrate material, upon loading the static strength of the coating may be exceeded and coating cracking may occur. In order to assess the effect of cracking in the coating on polycrystalline nickel superalloy MAR-M002, a number of combined cycle fatigue (CCF) and low cycle fatigue (LCF) tests with and without dwell have been carried out, at temperatures up to 870 °C. In order to experimentally assess the potential detrimental effect of coating cracking, controlled cracking in the coating prior to fatigue testing has been generated by using a special procedure. CCF tests have carried out by superimposing to strain controlled zero to maximum LCF cycles with dwell time stress controlled smaller HCF cycles, simulating the high loading ratio vibrations occurring in the blades. The loading mode applied in the CCF tests, even if much simpler than effective service conditions, is sufficiently representative of the loading experienced by the materials in correspondence of critical geometrical features of the turbine blades, where HCF amplitudes due to blade vibrations are superimposed to major (ground-air-ground) LCF cycles occurring during the regular service of the gas turbine engines. Comparison of the CCF and of the LCF tests with dwell with conventional LCF tests is presented herein, with special consideration of the effect of coating cracking.

scholarly journals Design and Operating Experiences With Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Units

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Jones ◽  
A. C. Shoults
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Chemical Company ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

This paper presents details of three large gas turbine installations in the Freeport, Texas, power plants of the Dow Chemical Company. The general plant layout, integration of useful outputs, economic factors leading to the selection of these units, and experiences during startup and operation will be reviewed. All three units operate with supercharging fan, evaporative cooler, and static excitation. Two of the installations are nearly identical 32,000-kw gas turbines operating in a combined cycle with a supplementary fired 1,500,000-lb/hr boiler and a 50,000-kw noncondensing steam turbine. The other installation is a 43,000-kw gas turbine and a 20,000-kw starter-helper steam turbine on the same shaft. The gas turbine exhaust is used to supply heated feedwater for four existing boilers.

scholarly journals Multiple Evaporation Steam Bottoming Cycle

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Jericha ◽  
M. Fesharaki ◽  
A. Seyr
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Steam Line ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Steam Flow ◽  
Feed Water ◽  
Exhaust Gas ◽  
Gas Cooling ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Cycle Efficiency ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Improvements to the steam bottoming cycles hold the promise of raising the combined cycle thermal efficiency to values near and above 60%. Up to now, steam bottoming cycles with three pressure levels of steam evaporation have been realised. A further advantage seems possible by the use of double fluids, such as mixtures of steam and ammonia. In the cycle proposed here, the authors limit Themselves to the use of steam and water only, in order to avoid all the difficulties, that may arise from such mixtures. The solution given here, relies on multiple evaporation levels, more than three up to five and even more. They should be to be achieved with the help of newly developed steam turbochargers, which allow the unification of the steam flow from three different neighbouring pressure levels, into one steam flow to be transmitted via the live steam line to the main turbine. This large number of evaporation levels, together with the required economisers for feed water heating and the ensuing superheaters arranged in the proper way, gives a steam water heat acceptance curve, which can be closely matched to the exhaust gas cooling line, so that the heat transfer from the gas turbine exhaust to the steam bottoming cycle can be effected with a minimum of temperature differences. It should be pointed out that the steam pressures are selected in the undercritical region, and that a total combined cycle efficiency very near to 60% can be achieved. Using most modern gas turbine models together with this novel bottoming cycle will even allow to exceed the value of 60%. Examples given have been calculated for standard gas turbine models.

Gas Turbine Exhaust Energy Margin in a Combined Cycle Power Plant

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Plant Performance ◽  
Performance Guarantees ◽  
Exhaust Energy ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Margining gas turbine exhaust energy exposes the EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) contractor to risk when developing overall plant performance guarantees. The objective of this paper is to explain the nature of this risk, recognize its significance and propose ways of mitigation. Sharing risk between the Developer and the contractor should be apportioned to maximize value for the project. Attention is focused on 2 on 1 combined cycle power plants, but the results are relevant for all types of gas turbine based power and cogeneration facilities. Risk mitigation alternatives discussed include both assessment of margins to the bottomline performance and the application of performance corrections at the time of field testing. Allowing for corrections leads to enhanced overall plant performance guarantees.

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