scholarly journals The Refrigerated Gas and Vapor Turbine Cycle

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hilbert Anderson ◽  
F. M. Laucks
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Steam Power Plant ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Competitive Efficiency

As electrical energy consumption has continued to rise in the United States, and producers of electricity search for power plants requiring less installation time, the gas turbine has emerged as a significant contributor to our nation’s energy needs. Despite a thermal efficiency disadvantage as compared to a conventional steam power plant, it has nevertheless played an increasingly larger role in the production of electrical power. A scheme is here presented whereby the output of a given gas turbine can be increased by more than 60% and its efficiency increased by 30%, thus making it more competitive efficiency-wise with the conventional steam power plant.

scholarly journals Gerakan Kontra Pembangunan Shelter 9 Dan 10 Pltu Suralaya Merak-Banten

ijd-demos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nida Urrohmah ◽  
Karin Caroline Kelly ◽  
Fitri Yuliani
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Steam Power Plant ◽  
Steam Power Plants ◽  
Local Residents

Electric Steam Power Plants (PLTU) need coal as fuel to produce electricity. The higher the electrical energy needed to eat, the more fuel will be used. This has happened in the construction of shelters 9 and 10 Suralaya Merak-Banten steam power plant (PLTU). This development is reaping various kinds of rejection because it causes environmental damage not only in the area around the development operation but also in the Greater Jakarta area. The rejection movement was initiated by local residents and supported by international Environmental NGOs.Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Uap (PLTU) membutuhkan batu bara sebagai bahan bakar untuk menghasilkan energi listrik. Semakin tinggi energi listrik yang dibutuhkan makan akan semakin banyak bahan bakar yang digunakan. Hal ini terjadi pada pembangunan shelter 9 dan 10 PLTU Suralaya di pulau Jawa spesifiknya di daerah Merak-Banten. Pembangunan ini menuai berbagai macam penolakan karena mengakibatkan kerusakan lingkungan tidak hanya pada wilayah sekitar operasi pembangunan namun juga pada wilayah Jabodetabek. Gerakan penolakan diinisiasi tentunya oleh warga setempat dan didukung dengan NGO Internasional penggiat isu lingkungan. 

scholarly journals Compressed Natural Gas Technology for Alternative Fuel Power Plants

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Isworo Pujotomo
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Fuel Oil ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Compressed Natural Gas ◽  
Electrical Efficiency ◽  
Steam Power Plant

Gas has great potential to be converted into electrical energy. Indonesia has natural gas reserves up to 50 years in the future, but the optimization of the gas to be converted into electricity is low and unable to compete with coal. Gas is converted into electricity has low electrical efficiency (25%), and the raw materials are more expensive than coal. Steam from a lot of wasted gas turbine, thus the need for utilizing exhaust gas results from gas turbine units. Combined cycle technology (Gas and Steam Power Plant) be a solution to improve the efficiency of electricity. Among other Thermal Units, Steam Power Plant (Combined Cycle Power Plant) has a high electrical efficiency (45%). Weakness of the current Gas and Steam Power Plant peak burden still using fuel oil. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Technology may be used to accommodate the gas with little land use. CNG gas stored in the circumstances of great pressure up to 250 bar, in contrast to gas directly converted into electricity in a power plant only 27 bar pressure. Stored in CNG gas used as a fuel to replace load bearing peak. Lawyer System on CNG conversion as well as the power plant is generally only used compressed gas with greater pressure and a bit of land.

scholarly journals Powering Ahead

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (05) ◽  
pp. 30-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee S. Langston
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Efficient Technology ◽  
The Military

This article explores the increasing use of natural gas in different turbine industries and in turn creating an efficient electrical system. All indications are that the aviation market will be good for gas turbine production as airlines and the military replace old equipment and expanding economies such as China and India increase their air travel. Gas turbines now account for some 22% of the electricity produced in the United States and 46% of the electricity generated in the United Kingdom. In spite of this market share, electrical power gas turbines have kept a much lower profile than competing technologies, such as coal-fired thermal plants and nuclear power. Gas turbines are also the primary device behind the modern combined power plant, about the most fuel-efficient technology we have. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is developing a new J series gas turbine for the combined cycle power plant market that could achieve thermal efficiencies of 61%. The researchers believe that if wind turbines and gas turbines team up, they can create a cleaner, more efficient electrical power system.

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 A Test Rig for the Experimental Investigation of a MGT/SOFC Hybrid Power Plant Based on a 3kWel Micro Gas Turbine

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 02012
Author(s):  
Martina Hohloch ◽  
Melanie Herbst ◽  
Anna Marcellan ◽  
Timo Lingstädt ◽  
Thomas Krummrein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Micro Gas Turbine ◽  
Hybrid Power ◽  
Hybrid Power Plant ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Electrical Power Output

A hybrid power plant consisting of a micro gas turbine (MGT) and a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a promising technology to reach the demands for future power plants. DLR aims to set up a MGT/SOFC hybrid power plant demonstrator based on a 3 kWel MTT EnerTwin micro gas turbine and an SOFC module with an electrical power output of 30 kWel from Sunfire. For the detailed investigation of the subsystems under hybrid conditions two separate test rigs are set up, one in which the MGT is connected to an emulator of the SOFC and vice versa. The paper introduces the set-up and the functionalities of the MGT based test rig. The special features are highlighted and the possibilities of the cyber physical system for emulation of a hybrid system are explained.

Performance Analysis of a 565 MW Steam Power Plant

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Chacartegui ◽  
D. Sa´nchez ◽  
J. A. Becerra ◽  
A. Mun˜oz ◽  
T. Sa´nchez
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Feed Water ◽  
Water Heater ◽  
Turbine Generator ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Steam Power Plant ◽  
Water Heaters ◽  
Steam Power Plants

In this work, a tool to predict the performance of fossil fuel steam power plants under variable operating conditions or under maintenance operations has been developed. This tool is based on the Spencer-Cotton-Cannon method for large steam turbine generator units. The tool has been validated by comparing the predicted results at different loads with real operating data of a 565 MW steam power plant, located in Southern Spain. The results obtained from the model show a good agreement with most of the power plant parameters. The simulation tool has been then used to predict the performance of a steam power plant in different operating conditions such as variable terminal temperature difference or drain cooler approach of the feed-water heaters, or under maintenance conditions like a feed-water heater out of service.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEGAGALAN OPERASI COOLING TOWER FAN UNIT 2B PLTU ASAM ASAM

JTAM ROTARY ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Andhika Bayu Oktavianto ◽  
Mastiadi Tamjidillah
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Cooling Tower ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Steam Power Plant ◽  
Plant Uses ◽  
Engineering Team

Salah satu pembangkit listrik di Indonesia adalah pembangkit listrik Asam Asam yang terletak di dekat mulut tambang batubara. Setiap pembangkit listrik membutuhkan sejumlah besar air sebagai fluida kerja atau sebagai air pendingin. Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Uap Asam Asam Batubara menggunakan air sungai sebagai air pendingin dengan mesin pendingin sebagai mesinnya. Pada bulan September 2017, menara pendingin unit 2B dari PLTU Asam Asam Batubara mengalami kegagalan operasi karena spacer rusak dan membuat PLTU Asam Asam Batubara mengalami penurunan dan kerugian lainnya. Tim teknik mendiagnosis kasus tersebut karena ketidakselarasan. Berdasarkan uraian akar penyebab masalah, ada tiga masalah utama yang mungkin terjadi yaitu: misalignment, unbalance, dan rotasi gearbox berat. Misalignment adalah pemicu utama untuk serangkaian masalah yang menyebabkan kegagalan operasi menara pendingin. Maka perlu mempelajari masalah utama yang menyebabkan kegagalan operasi menara pendingin untuk ditindaklanjuti dengan pemeliharaan preventif sesuai dengan kondisi saat ini untuk mencegah kegagalan yang serupa di unit 2B dan unit serupa lainnya. One of the power plants in Indonesia is the Asam Asam power plant located near the mouth of the coal mine. Each power plant requires large amounts of water as a working fluid or as a cooling water. Asam Asam Coal Fired Steam Power Plant uses river water as a cooling water with the cooling towers as its engine. In September 2017, the cooling tower unit 2B of Asam Asam Coal Fired Steam Power Plant experienced an operation failure because of the spacer was broken and made the Asam Asam Coal Fired Steam Power Plant to experience derating and other losses. The engineering team diagnoses the case due to misalignment. Based on the description of the root causes of the problem, there are three main problems that might occur namely : misalignment, unbalance, and heavy gearbox rotation. Misalignment is the main trigger for a series of problems causing failure of cooling tower operations. Then it is necessary to study the main problems causing the failure of the cooling tower operation to be followed up with preventive maintenance in accordance with the current conditions to prevent similar failures in unit 2B and other similar units.

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.

Feedwater Repowering of Coal Fired Power Plants: Effects of Steam Turbine Overloads on Energy and Economic Performance of the Integrated Power System

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Carapellucci ◽  
Lorena Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Operating Mode ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Efficiency Gain ◽  
Co2 Emission Reduction ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Steam Power Plant

In recent years, the environmental concerns and the need to improve the competitiveness of existing coal-fired power plants have renewed the interest for the repowering option. Repowering techniques based on combustion turbines allow to increase thermodynamic performances of the steam power plant, as well as to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, due to efficiency improvement and partial fuel-shift from coal to natural gas. This paper aims to evaluate performances of feedwater repowering of a coal fired power plant, considering various steam turbine overloads. Two types of analysis are here proposed. First, thermodynamic and environmental benefits of feedwater repowering are evaluated in terms of efficiency gain and CO2 emission reduction, with reference to the steam power plant only. Then, effects of the integration of a gas turbine into the existing coal fired power plant are highlighted. Different feedwater repowering options, varying the operating mode of the coal fired power plant, are compared from the energy, economic and environmental point of view. The attention is focused on performance parameters of the integrated steam-gas power plant, as well as on marginal indices defining the efficiency and unit cost of electricity of the additional power production.

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