Thermodynamic Performance Enhancement of Marine Gas Turbine by Using Detonation Combustion

Author(s):  
Ningbo Zhao ◽  
Hongtao Zheng ◽  
Xueyou Wen ◽  
Dongming Xiao

As a prospective pressure gain combustion technology, detonation combustion has obvious potential for greatly increasing the thermodynamic performance of marine gas turbine due to its advantage in low entropy generation, fast heat release and self-pressurization. In this paper, a thermodynamic cycle model of detonation combustion based marine gas turbine is established considering the variable specific heat capacity. On this basis, a comparative analysis is investigated to discuss the effects of different factors on the performance enhancement of marine gas turbine by using detonation combustion. The results demonstrate that compared to the conventional deflagration combustion, detonation combustion can significantly improve the thermodynamic performance of marine gas turbine under various condition. As far as the present study is concerned, the thermal cycle efficiency can be increased to 42.97∼46.76%. Besides, it is found that the effects of pressure ratio on performance enhancements of marine gas turbine are higher than those of atmospheric temperature and temperature ratio. When pressure ratio is ranged from 13 to 30, both thermal cycle efficiency and specific power enhancements are about 20∼27%.

2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 2109-2116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung Hoon Kim

The water and steam injection gas-turbine systems are comparatively investigated. Thermodynamic performances of the regenerative after-fogging gas-turbine (RAF) system, steam-injection gas-turbine (STIG) system, and the regenerative steam-injection gas-turbine (RSTIG) system are analyzed parametrically. Using the analytic model, the important system variables such as thermal efficiency, fuel consumption, specific power, and specific emission of CO2 gas are evaluated in terms of pressure ratio and water or steam injection ratio. The numerical results show that water or steam injection results in a notable enhancement of thermal efficiency and specific power.


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Qi ◽  
Zhitao Wang ◽  
Ningbo Zhao ◽  
Yongqiang Dai ◽  
Hongtao Zheng ◽  
...  

To further improve the cycle performance of gas turbines, a gas turbine cycle model based on interstage bleeding rotating detonation combustion was established using methane as fuel. Combined with a series of two-dimensional numerical simulations of a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) and calculations of cycle parameters, the pressure gain characteristics and cycle performance were investigated at different compressor pressure ratios in the study. The results showed that pressure gain characteristic of interstage bleeding RDC contributed to an obvious performance improvement in the rotating detonation gas turbine cycle compared with the conventional gas turbine cycle. The decrease of compressor pressure ratio had a positive influence on the performance improvement in the rotating detonation gas turbine cycle. With the decrease of compressor pressure ratio, the pressurization ratio of the RDC increased and finally made the power generation and cycle efficiency enhancement rates display uptrends. Under the calculated conditions, the pressurization ratios of RDC were all higher than 1.77, the decreases of turbine inlet total temperature were all more than 19 K, the power generation enhancements were all beyond 400 kW and the cycle efficiency enhancement rates were all greater than 6.72%.


Author(s):  
C. H. Song ◽  
S. T. Ro

It is well known that a cycle performance can be improved considerably by adopting humid air to a simple gas turbine. Further improvement can be achieved by utilizing LNG (liquified natural gas) cold energy which is obtained during vaporization process of natural gas from liquid to gas state. Qualitatively well known fact of high specific power and improvement of efficiency are analyzed quantitatively for various cases. These include comparisons of power, efficiency and other important operating parameters for the cases of a simple cycle and HAT cycle with and without utilization of LNG cold energy. Compared with simple cycle, HAT cycle got 48% increase in total work, 16% increase in efficiency and HAT-LNG cycle got each 54%, 17% increases at 10 pressure ratio. An analysis shows that a reasonable matching exists between the amount of LNG as fuel and the energy required to control inlet air temperature. It should be also admitted that use of a high cost liquified natural gas is inevitable for transportation of fuel from production site to consumer.


Author(s):  
Rama S. R. Gorla ◽  
Shantaram S. Pai ◽  
Jeffrey Rusick

The emergence of fuel cell systems and hybrid fuel cell systems requires the evolution of analysis strategies for evaluating thermodynamic performance. A gas turbine thermodynamic cycle integrated with a fuel cell was computationally simulated and probabilistically evaluated in view of the several uncertainties in the thermodynamic performance parameters. Cumulative distribution functions and sensitivity factors were computed for the overall thermal efficiency and net specific power output due to the uncertainties in the thermodynamic random variables. These results can be used to quickly identify the most critical design variables in order to optimize the design and make it cost effective. The analysis leads to the selection of criteria for gas turbine performance.


Author(s):  
Sanjay ◽  
Onkar Singh ◽  
B. N. Prasad

This paper deals with the thermodynamic performance of complex gas turbine cycles involving inter-cooling, re-heating and regeneration. The performance has been evaluated based on the mathematical modeling of various elements of gas turbine for the real situation. The fuel selected happens to be natural gas and the internal convection / film / transpiration air cooling of turbine bladings have been assumed. The analysis has been applied to the current state-of-the-art gas turbine technology and cycle parameters in four classes: Large industrial, Medium industrial, Aero-derivative and Small industrial. The results conform with the performance of actual gas turbine engines. It has been observed that the plant efficiency is higher at lower inter-cooling (surface), reheating and regeneration yields much higher efficiency and specific power as compared to simple cycle. There exists an optimum overall compression ratio and turbine inlet temperature in all types of complex configuration. The advanced turbine blade materials and coating withstand high blade temperature, yields higher efficiency as compared to lower blade temperature materials.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farshid Zabihian

The first part of this thesis deals with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel-fired power stations. The GHG emission estimation from fossil fuel power generation industry signifies that emissions from this industry can be significantly reduced by fuel switching and adaption of advanced power generation technologies. In the second part of the thesis, steady-state models of some of the advanced fossil fuel power generation technologies are presented. The impacts of various parameters on the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) overpotentials and outputs are investigated. The detail analyses of operation of the hybrid SOFC-gas turbine (GT) cycle when fuelled with methane and syngas demonstrate that the efficiencies of the cycles with and without anode exhaust recirculation are close, but the specific power of the former is much higher. The parametric analysis of the performance of the hybrid SOFC-GT cycle indicates that increasing the system operating pressure and SOFC operating temperature and fuel utilization factor improves cycle efficiency, but the effects of the increasing SOFC current density and turbine inlet temperature are not favourable. The analysis of the operation of the system when fuelled with a wide range of fuel types demonstrates that the hybrid SOFC-GT cycle efficiency can be between 59% and 75%, depending on the inlet fuel type. Then, the system performance is investigated when methane as a reference fuel is replaced with various species that can be found in the fuel, i.e., H₂, CO₂, CO, and N₂. The results point out that influence of various species can be significant and different for each case. The experimental and numerical analyses of a biodiesel fuelled micro gas turbine indicate that fuel switching from petrodiesel to biodiesel can influence operational parameters of the system. The modeling results of gas turbine-based power plants signify that relatively simple models can predict plant performance with acceptable accuracy. The unique feature of these models is that they are developed based on similar assumptions and run at similar conditions; therefore, their results can be compared. This work demonstrates that, although utilization of fossil fuels for power generation is inevitable, at least in the short- and mid-term future, it is possible and practical to carry out such utilization more efficiently and in an environmentally friendlier manner.


Author(s):  
T. L. Ragland

After industrial gas turbines have been in production for some amount of time, there is often an opportunity to improve or “uprate” the engine’s output power or cycle efficiency or both. In most cases, the manufacturer would like to provide these uprates without compromising the proven reliability and durability of the product. Further, the manufacturer would like the development of this “Uprate” to be low cost, low risk and result in an improvement in “customer value” over that of the original design. This paper describes several options available for enhancing the performance of an existing industrial gas turbine engine and discusses the implications for each option. Advantages and disadvantages of each option are given along with considerations that should be taken into account in selecting one option over another. Specific options discussed include dimensional scaling, improving component efficiencies, increasing massflow, compressor zero staging, increasing firing temperature (thermal uprate), adding a recuperator, increasing cycle pressure ratio, and converting to a single shaft design. The implications on output power, cycle efficiency, off-design performance engine life or time between overhaul (TBO), engine cost, development time and cost, auxiliary requirements and product support issues are discussed. Several examples are provided where these options have been successfully implemented in industrial gas turbine engines.


Author(s):  
Qun Zheng ◽  
Minghong Li ◽  
Yufeng Sun

Thermodynamic performance of wet compression and regenerative (WCR) gas turbine are investigated in this paper. The regenerative process can be achieved by a gas/air (and steam) heat exchanger, a regenerator, or by a heat recovery steam generator and then the steam injected into the gas turbine. Several schemes of the above wet compression and regenerative cycles are computed and analyzed. The calculated results indicate that not only a significant specific power can be obtained, but also is the WCR gas turbine an economic competitive option of efficient gas turbines.


Author(s):  
R. Bhargava ◽  
M. Bianchi ◽  
A. Peretto ◽  
P. R. Spina

In the present paper, a comprehensive and simple in application design methodology to obtain a gas turbine working on recuperated, intercooled and reheat cycle utilizing existing gas turbines is presented. Applications of the proposed design steps have been implemented on the three existing gas turbines, with wide ranging design complexities. The results of evaluated aero-thermodynamic performance for these existing gas turbines with the proposed modifications are presented and compared in this paper. Sample calculations of the analysis procedures discussed, including stage-by-stage analysis of the compressor and turbine sections of the modified gas turbines, have been also included. All the three modified gas turbines were found to have higher performance, with cycle efficiency increase of 9% to 26%, in comparison to their original values.


Author(s):  
Satoshi Hada ◽  
Masanori Yuri ◽  
Junichiro Masada ◽  
Eisaku Ito ◽  
Keizo Tsukagoshi

MHI recently developed a 1600°C class J-type gas turbine, utilizing some of the technologies developed in the National Project to promote the development of component technology for the next generation 1700°C class gas turbine. This new frame is expected to achieve higher combined cycle efficiency and will contribute to reduce CO2 emissions. The target combined cycle efficiency of the J type gas turbine will be above 61.5% (gross, ISO standard condition, LHV) and the 1on1 combined cycle output will reach 460MW for 60Hz engine and 670MW for 50Hz engine. This new engine incorporates: 1) A high pressure ratio compressor based on the advanced M501H compressor, which was verified during the M501H development in 1999 and 2001. 2) Steam cooled combustor, which has accumulated extensive experience in the MHI G engine (> 1,356,000 actual operating hours). 3) State-of-art turbine designs developed through the 1700°C gas turbine component technology development program in Japanese National Project for high temperature components. This paper discusses the technical features and the updated status of the J-type gas turbine, especially the operating condition of the J-type gas turbine in the MHI demonstration plant, T-Point. The trial operation of the first M501J gas turbine was started at T-point in February 2011 on schedule, and major milestones of the trial operation have been met. After the trial operation, the first commercial operation has taken place as scheduled under a predominantly Daily-Start-and-Stop (DSS) mode. Afterward, MHI performed the major inspection in October 2011 in order to check the mechanical condition, and confirmed that the hot parts and other parts were in sound condition.


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