scholarly journals Development Progress on the Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Coal Combustor for Cogeneration Gas Turbine System for Industrial Cogeneration Plants

1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Holcomb

The Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Coal Combustor Program will develop the technology for a fluidized bed coal combustion system to provide a source of high temperature air for process heating and power generation with gas turbines in industrial plants. The gas turbine has the advantages of a higher ratio of electric power output to exhaust heat load and a higher exhaust temperature than do steam turbines in cogeneration applications. The program is directed toward systems in the size range of 5 to 50 MW(e) and is sponsored by the Department of Energy. A study of industrial energy use has been completed that indicates a large potential market for gas turbine cogeneration systems. Conceptual design studies have been done for typical industrial’ installations, and some of these results are presented. The conceptual design of a 300 kW(e) test unit has been completed. A number of furnace design firms have been invited to submit their own designs for a 1500 kW(t) (5 × 106 Btu/hr) combustor, from which a final selection will be made. The design of the balance of the test system will proceed in parallel with the combustor design. An engineering design study has been completed by AiResearch Division of Garrett Corporation in which the modifications required to adapt an existing AiResearch 831-200 gas turbine to this cycle for both open and closed cycle operation were determined. Development and testing have been conducted in the areas of fluidization, heat transfer, tube corrosion and coal feeding. Results from heat transfer, tube corrosion, and coal feeding tests are presented.

Author(s):  
A. Robertson ◽  
Zhen Fan ◽  
H. Goldstein ◽  
D. Horazak ◽  
R. Newby ◽  
...  

Research has been conducted under United States Department of Energy (USDOE) Contract DE-AC21-86MC21023 to develop a new type of coal-fired, combined cycle, gas turbine-steam turbine plant for electric power generation. This new type of plant — called a 2nd Generation or Advanced Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion (APFB) plant — offers the promise of efficiencies greater than 48 percent (HHV) with both emissions and a cost of electricity that are significantly lower than those of conventional pulverized-coal-fired plants with scrubbers. In the 2nd Generation PFB plant coal is partially gasified in a pressurized fluidized bed reactor to produce a coal derived syngas and a char residue. The syngas fuels the gas turbine and the char fuels a pressurized circulating fluidized bed (PCFB) boiler that powers the steam turbine and supplies hot vitiated air for the combustion of the syngas. A conceptual design and an economic analysis was previously prepared for this plant, all based on the use of a Siemens Westinghouse W501F gas turbine with projected gasifier, PCFB boiler, and gas turbine topping combustor performance data. Having tested these components at a pilot plant scale and observed better than expected performance, the referenced conceptual design has been updated to reflect that test experience and to incorporate more advanced turbines e.g. a Siemens Westinghouse W501G gas turbine and a 2400 psig/1050°F/1050°F/2-1/2 in. Hg steam turbine. This paper presents the performance and economics of the updated plant design along with data on some alternative plant arrangements.


1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Kurosaki ◽  
I. Satoh ◽  
T. Ishize

This paper deals with mechanisms of heat transfer in a gas–solid fluidized bed. Heat transfer due to heat exchange by direct contact from a heat transfer tube immersed in the bed to fluidized particles was studied by means of visualization of contact of the fluidized particles to the heat transfer surface. The results show that the duration of contact of fluidized particles was almost uniform over the tube circumference and was hardly affected by the flow rate of fluidizing gas. On the other hand, the contact frequency between the particles and heat transfer tube was evidently influenced by the gas flow rate and particles diameter, as well as the location on the tube circumference. Using the visualized results, the amount of heat conducted to fluidized particles during the contact was estimated. This result showed that unsteady heat conduction to the fluidized particles plays an important role in the heat transfer, especially at the condition of incipient fluidization.


Author(s):  
Carlo Carcasci ◽  
Stefano Piola ◽  
Roberto Canepa ◽  
Andrea Silingardi

In order to improve performance of heavy-duty gas turbines, in terms of power, efficiency and reliability, accurate calculation tools are required. During conceptual design phase, an effective integration of main GT components design into a single modular simulation tool can significantly reduce design iterations and improve the results. Thanks to an innovative modular-structured program for the simulation of air-cooled gas turbines, the one-dimensional design of compressor and turbine flow paths is used to create a complete gas turbine model including a detailed secondary air system and a simplified heat transfer model. This zero-dimensional heat transfer model is applied to each turbine row in order to calculate the cooling flow required to keep turbine blades and vanes metal temperatures below a prescribed threshold. After a description of the air cooled gas turbine modular model, the integrated design approach adopted by Ansaldo Energia is described. The knowledge of technical risks that the designers have to withstand developing advanced technologies during conceptual engine design is fundamental. The inter-disciplinary influence of some disciplines is analyzed and finally it is shown how Ansaldo Energia approach can track expected performance results and provide recovery plans during the conceptual design phase.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (s2) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Su Houde ◽  
Yu Shurong ◽  
Fan Jianling ◽  
Wei Xing

Abstract In order to explore a more reasonable structure and operating parameter, guide the design and improve the gasification of seawater Open Rack Vaporizer (ORV), Research on the rules of seawater that flows and heat transfer in the ORV tube was studied in this paper. By simplifying the model, heat transfer tube model with spoiler lever was obtained and simulated, the distribution of temperature field, gas ratio, velocity field and press field in rib tube were analyzed, and different inlet velocity of LNG, roughness of the tube wall both effected on the overall gasification, the results shows that the actual gasification efficiency from heat transfer tube is higher than normal, small difference of gas ratio outlet, velocity and temperature are both lower, LNG could be easer gasified at operating temperature between -162°C~+3°C than that between -162°C~+0°C.


2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingming Xie ◽  
Kaihua Guo ◽  
Deqing Liang ◽  
Shuanshi Fan ◽  
Jianming Gu ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Mark A. Paisley ◽  
Donald Anson

The Biomass Power Program of the US Department of Energy (DOE) has as a major goal the development of cost-competitive technologies for the production of power from renewable biomass crops. The gasification of biomass provides the potential to meet his goal by efficiently and economically producing a renewable source of a clean gaseous fuel suitable for use in high efficiency gas turbines. This paper discusses the development and first commercial demonstration of the Battelle high-throughput gasification process for power generation systems. Projected process economics are presented along with a description of current experimental operations coupling a gas turbine power generation system to the research scale gasifier and the process scaleup activities in Burlington, Vermont.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (05) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Lee S. Langston

This article explores the new developments in the field of gas turbines and the recent progress that has been made in the industry. The gas turbine industry has had its ups and downs over the past 20 years, but the production of engines for commercial aircraft has become the source for most of its growth of late. Pratt & Whitney’s recent introduction of its new geared turbofan engine is an example of the primacy of engine technology in aviation. Many advances in commercial aviation gas turbine technology are first developed under military contracts, since jet fighters push their engines to the limit. Distributed generation and cogeneration, where the exhaust heat is used directly, are other frontiers for gas turbines. Work in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and solid mechanics has led to continued advances in compressor and turbine component performance and life. In addition, gas turbine combustion is constantly being improved through chemical and fluid mechanics research.


Author(s):  
E. Findeisen ◽  
B. Woerz ◽  
M. Wieler ◽  
P. Jeschke ◽  
M. Rabs

This paper presents two different numerical methods to predict the thermal load of a convection-cooled gas-turbine blade under realistic operating temperature conditions. The subject of the investigation is a gas-turbine rotor blade equipped with an academic convection-cooling system and investigated at a cascade test-rig. It consists of three cooling channels, which are connected outside the blade, so allowing cooling air temperature measurements. Both methods use FE models to obtain the temperature distribution of the solid blade. The difference between these methods lies in the generation of the heat transfer coefficients along the cooling channel walls which serve as a boundary condition for the FE model. One method, referred to as the FEM1D method, uses empirical one-dimensional correlations known from the available literature. The other method, the FEM2D method, uses three-dimensional CFD simulations to obtain two-dimensional heat transfer coefficient distributions. The numerical results are compared to each other as well as to experimental data, so that the benefits and limitations of each method can be shown and validated. Overall, this paper provides an evaluation of the different methods which are used to predict temperature distributions in convection-cooled gas-turbines with regard to accuracy, numerical cost and the limitations of each method. The temperature profiles obtained in all methods generally show good agreement with the experiments. However, the more detailed methods produce more accurate results by causing higher numerical costs.


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