Hot-Gas-Path Life Extension Options for the V94.2 Gas Turbine

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Bohrenkämper ◽  
Herbert Bals ◽  
Ursel Wrede ◽  
René Umlauft
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Maintenance Program ◽  
Path Component ◽  
Strategic Options

Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants are typically designed for a service life of over 30 years. If operated at base load in continuous duty, the gas turbine hot-gas-path components for example in a combined-cycle power plant need repair and replacement according to the maintenance program several times during plant life. Most of the hot components would reach the end of their service life, e.g. 100,000 equivalent operating hours (EOH), after 10 to 12 years. As this is well before the end of the overall plant service life defined in the power plant concept, such plant applications therefore necessitate life extension measures enabling to continuing operation beyond 100,000 EOH. This paper presents strategic options for hot-gas-path component life entension.

Gas Turbine Life Extension: A 655 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant User’s Experience

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemant Gajjar ◽  
Sunil Jain ◽  
Arpesh Modi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Combined Cycle Power Plant ◽  
Hot Gas

Gujarat Paguthan Energy Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (GPEC) is operating a Combined Cycle Power Plant, located near Paguthan in the state of Gujarat, India. It is a dual fuel 655MW combined cycle power station consisting of three Heavy Duty Industrial Gas Turbines coupled with three Heat Recovery Steam Generators and one Steam Turbine. In a combined cycle plant, Gas Turbine is the single most critical piece of equipment & costliest to maintain. Maintenance cost of GT can be as high as 85% of the total maintenance cost of a combined cycle power station. It therefore becomes important for a plant operator not only to optimise the maintenance cost but also to look for possible extension in the life of the engine. OEM inherently builds in a factor of safety and coupled with the site operating conditions it is a question of how much more can be squeezed out of a component & the engine as a whole. GPEC’s experience of getting life assessment done on 6 numbers of turbine blades and also making an experience based risk assessment of various hot gas path and critical components is discussed in this paper. The life assessment, for a user, has to basically answer two questions: 1) Can the interval between outages of GT be extended? in other words — How long can the GT be run before taking a planned shutdown (Combustion Inspection or Hot Gas Path Inspection or Major Inspection)? 2) Can the component be refurbished and reused? in other words — How long can a component be used before discarding? Decision for life extension is taken on the basis of the design criteria & OEM’s recommendation, operating experience of self & other users and, results of life assessment testing specially of hot gas path components. A risk assessment table is generated which gives a picture of the possibility of engine life extension and in particular the possibility of extension in running hours between outages. GPEC’s experience, from both technical and commercial point of view, with regard to extending running hours beyond standard recommendation & analysing right refurbishment requirements for hot gas path components to further extend the running hours, is put up in this paper.

Thermo-Economic Assessment Under Electrical Market Uncertainties of a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Integrated With a Flue Gas-Condensing Heat Pump

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Vannoni ◽  
Andrea Giugno ◽  
Alessandro Sorce
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Flue Gas ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Gas Turbine Power Plant

Abstract Renewable energy penetration is growing, due to the target of greenhouse-gas-emission reduction, even though fossil fuel-based technologies are still necessary in the current energy market scenario to provide reliable back-up power to stabilize the grid. Nevertheless, currently, an investment in such a kind of power plant might not be profitable enough, since some energy policies have led to a general decrease of both the average price of electricity and its variability; moreover, in several countries negative prices are reached on some sunny or windy days. Within this context, Combined Heat and Power systems appear not just as a fuel-efficient way to fulfill local thermal demand, but also as a sustainable way to maintain installed capacity able to support electricity grid reliability. Innovative solutions to increase both the efficiency and flexibility of those power plants, as well as careful evaluations of the economic context, are essential to ensure the sustainability of the economic investment in a fast-paced changing energy field. This study aims to evaluate the economic viability and environmental impact of an integrated solution of a cogenerative combined cycle gas turbine power plant with a flue gas condensing heat pump. Considering capital expenditure, heat demand, electricity price and its fluctuations during the whole system life, the sustainability of the investment is evaluated taking into account the uncertainties of economic scenarios and benchmarked against the integration of a cogenerative combined cycle gas turbine power plant with a Heat-Only Boiler.

The Elephant in the Room–Gas Turbine Power

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (12) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Lee S. Langston
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
Hydrocarbon Fuel ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Electrical Generator ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust

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.

scholarly journals Technical Evaluation of Simplified IGCC Components

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Horner ◽  
R. K. Alff ◽  
J. C. Corman
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fixed Bed ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Fuel Gas ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Coal Gas ◽  
Hot Gas

Simplified integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants offer attractive advantages for improving the performance of coal to electricity systems. This plant configuration, which utilizes a coal gasifier, hot gas cleanup system, and gas turbine combined cycle, has the potential to reduce both capital costs for equipment and fuel costs through improved efficiency. This paper reports the results of fuel supply and gas turbine testing on actual hot low-Btu coal gas. A pilot-scale advanced fixed-bed gasifier has been modified to supply hot coal gas to a particulate removal cyclone and then to a gas turbine simulator. The hot gas is combusted in a General Electric MS6000 combustor developed for low-Btu gas fuel. The combusted product flows through a MS6000 turbine first-stage nozzle sector. The exhaust gases from the nozzle sector pass over air-cooled cylindrical ash deposition pin specimens and then into a water quench exhaust system. Extensive instrumentation and sampling provisions are utilized to characterize the fuel gas, the combustion gases, and the ash deposits formed on turbine components. Two regimes of nozzle metal surface temperatures have been investigated by separate testing performed including 500–600 °F with water-cooled and 1500–1650 °F with air-cooled nozzle sectors. Results from the test program have provided key data related to fuel gas cleanup and the tolerance of gas turbine hot gas path parts to the products of combustion from coal-derived fuels.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Comparative Efficiency of CCGT in Variable Modes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2096 (1) ◽  
pp. 012123
Author(s):  
M V Garievskii
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Cost Of Electricity ◽  
Comparative Efficiency ◽  
Main Equipment ◽  
Prime Cost ◽  
Efficient Power

Abstract The purpose of the research is to select the priorities for the development of various types of power plants and to substantiate the structure of generating capacities. An improved method has been developed for the selection of priorities for the development of various types of power plants, taking into account the service life and economic performance of the main equipment of power plants in variable modes based on equivalent operating hours. The influence of variable modes of combined-cycle gas installations on the service life of the main equipment (steam and gas turbines) is studied. The comparative efficiency of CCGT-450 in variable modes is calculated, taking into account the wear of the main equipment. As a result of calculations, it was found that with the minimum forecast prices for natural gas, the most efficient power plant (among those considered) is combined cycle power plant, which provides the lowest prime cost of electricity when operating in the base mode and the least increase in the prime cost of electricity when operating in an alternating mode.

scholarly journals Effect of Turbine and Compressor Inlet Temperatures and Air Bleeding on the Comparative Performance of Simple and Combined Gas Turbine Unit

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Basharat Salim ◽  
Jamal Orfi ◽  
Shaker Saeed Alaqel
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Turbine Unit ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Gas Turbine Unit ◽  
The World ◽  
Compressor Inlet

The proper utilization of all the available forms of energy resources has become imminent to meet the power requirement and energy demand in both the developed and developing countries of the world. Even though the emphasis is given to the renewable resources in most parts of the world, but fossil fuels will still remain the main resources of energy as these can meet both normal and peak demands. Saudi Arab has number of power plant based on natural gas and fuel that are spread in all its regions. These power plants have aeroderivative gas turbine units supplied by General Electric Company as main power producing units. These units work on dual fuel systems. These units work as simple gas turbine units to meat peak demands and as part of combined cycle otherwise. The subject matter of this study is the performance of one of the units of a power plant situated near Riyadh city of Saudi Arab. This unit also works both as simple gas turbine unit and as a part of combined cycle power plant unit. A parametric based performance evaluation of the unit has been carried out to study both energetic and exergetic performance of the unit for both simple and combined cycle operation. Effect of compressor inlet temperature, turbine inlet temperature, pressure ratio of the compressor, the stage from which bleed off air have been taken and percentage of bleed off air from the compressor on the energetic and exergetic performance of the unit have been studied. The study reveals that all these parameters effect the performance of the unit in both modes of operation.

Repowering: An Option for Refurbishment of Old Thermal Power Plants in Latin-American Countries

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Washington Orlando Irrazabal Bohorquez ◽  
Joa˜o Roberto Barbosa ◽  
Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira ◽  
Electo E. Silva Lora
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Fuel Oil ◽  
Thermal Power Plants

The operational rules for the electricity markets in Latin America are changing at the same time that the electricity power plants are being subjected to stronger environmental restrictions, fierce competition and free market rules. This is forcing the conventional power plants owners to evaluate the operation of their power plants. Those thermal power plants were built between the 1960’s and the 1990’s. They are old and inefficient, therefore generating expensive electricity and polluting the environment. This study presents the repowering of thermal power plants based on the analysis of three basic concepts: the thermal configuration of the different technological solutions, the costs of the generated electricity and the environmental impact produced by the decrease of the pollutants generated during the electricity production. The case study for the present paper is an Ecuadorian 73 MWe power output steam power plant erected at the end of the 1970’s and has been operating continuously for over 30 years. Six repowering options are studied, focusing the increase of the installed capacity and thermal efficiency on the baseline case. Numerical simulations the seven thermal power plants are evaluated as follows: A. Modified Rankine cycle (73 MWe) with superheating and regeneration, one conventional boiler burning fuel oil and one old steam turbine. B. Fully-fired combined cycle (240 MWe) with two gas turbines burning natural gas, one recuperative boiler and one old steam turbine. C. Fully-fired combined cycle (235 MWe) with one gas turbine burning natural gas, one recuperative boiler and one old steam turbine. D. Fully-fired combined cycle (242 MWe) with one gas turbine burning natural gas, one recuperative boiler and one old steam turbine. The gas turbine has water injection in the combustion chamber. E. Fully-fired combined cycle (242 MWe) with one gas turbine burning natural gas, one recuperative boiler with supplementary burners and one old steam turbine. The gas turbine has steam injection in the combustion chamber. F. Hybrid combined cycle (235 MWe) with one gas turbine burning natural gas, one recuperative boiler with supplementary burners, one old steam boiler burning natural gas and one old steam turbine. G. Hybrid combined cycle (235 MWe) with one gas turbine burning diesel fuel, one recuperative boiler with supplementary burners, one old steam boiler burning fuel oil and one old steam turbine. All the repowering models show higher efficiency when compared with the Rankine cycle [2, 5]. The thermal cycle efficiency is improved from 28% to 50%. The generated electricity costs are reduced to about 50% when the old power plant is converted to a combined cycle one. When a Rankine cycle power plant burning fuel oil is modified to combined cycle burning natural gas, the CO2 specific emissions by kWh are reduced by about 40%. It is concluded that upgrading older thermal power plants is often a cost-effective method for increasing the power output, improving efficiency and reducing emissions [2, 7].

Development of Russian Regulatory Basis for License Renewal/Life Extension of Nuclear Power Plants

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Pachner ◽  
Inna V. Kaliberda
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Regulatory Strategy ◽  
Regulatory Guidelines ◽  
License Renewal ◽  
Regulatory Organization

By 2010, fifteen Russian nuclear power plant (NPP) units will reach the end of their scheduled service life of 30 years. An extension of NPP operation beyond the scheduled service life, which is provided for by the Russian safety standard OPB-88/97, requires a renewal of the plant operating license by the regulatory organization Gosatomnadzor (GAN). This paper presents an overview of an IAEA project aimed at assisting GAN in the development of a set of regulatory guidelines for NPP license renewal/life extension. The overview includes a description of the Russian regulatory strategy for life extension of NPPs and IAEA activities to facilitate drafting and application of the regulatory guidelines using international experience.

Étude on Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plant—Next 20 Years

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Can Gülen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
United States Department ◽  
States Department ◽  
Development Path ◽  
Utility Scale ◽  
Year 2000

In 1992, United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Turbine Systems (ATS) program established a target of 60% efficiency for utility scale gas turbine (GT) power plants to be achieved by the year 2000. Although the program led to numerous technology breakthroughs, it took another decade for an actual combined cycle (CC) power plant with an H class GT to reach (and surpass) the target efficiency. Today, another target benchmark, 65% efficiency, circulates frequently in trade publications and engineering journals with scant support from existing technology, its development path as well as material limits, and almost no regard to theoretical (e.g., underlying physics) and practical (e.g., cost, complexity, reliability, and constructability) concerns. This paper attempts to put such claims to test and establish the room left for gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) growth in the next two decades. The analysis and conclusions are firmly based on fundamental thermodynamic principles with carefully and precisely laid out assumptions and supported by rigorous calculations. The goal is to arm the practicing engineer with a consistent, coherent, and self-standing reference to critically evaluate claims, predictions, and other futuristic information pertaining to GTCC technology.

Thermoeconomic Analysis of Power Plants With Integrated Exergy Stream

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duck-Jin Kim ◽  
Hyun-Soo Lee ◽  
Ho-Young Kwak ◽  
Jae-Ho Hong
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Cogeneration Plant ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Unit Costs ◽  
Combined Cycle Plant ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Exegetic and thermoeconomic analysis were performed for a 500-MW combined cycle plant and a 137-MW steam power plant without decomposition of exergy into thermal and mechanical exergy. A unit cost was assigned to a specific exergy stream of matter, regardless of its condition or state in this analysis. The calculated costs of electricity were almost same within 0.5% as those obtained by the thermoeconomic analysis with decomposition of the exergy stream for the combined cycle plant, which produces the same kind of product. Such outcome indicated that the level at which the cost balances are formulated does not affect the result of thermoeconomic analysis, that is somewhat contradictory to that concluded previously. However this is true for the gas-turbine cogeneration plant which produces different kinds of products, electricity and steam whose unit costs are dominantly affected by the mechanical and thermal exergy respectively.

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