Turbine Inlet Temperature Articles & Analysis: Older
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Turbine inlet temperatures reach up to 1600°C, which is beyond the melting temperature of conventional metals. ...
The effect of nitrogen, which is supplied from the Air Separation Unit (ASU) of the gasification unit to the combustion chamber of the gas turbine (GT) cycle, on system performance is parametrically studied. The energy efficiency of the system is found to be 41%, while the exergy efficiency for the integrated gasification combined cycle power plant is 37%. ...
Gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) plants have high overall thermal efficiency, and are used for large base–load power plants (PPs) to produce electric power (EP) and desalted seawater (DW) at the lowest cost per units of EP and DW. ...
A thermodynamic analysis through energy and exergy is employed, to investigate the effects of cycle pressure ratio, gas turbine inlet temperature and evaporator temperature on first–law efficiency and second–law efficiency of the proposed cogeneration cycle. The first and second–law efficiencies increases with the increase in gas ...
The design parameters of the plant were chosen as: compressor pressure ratio, compressor isentropic efficiency, gas turbine isentropic efficiency, and turbine inlet temperature, pinch difference temperature, steam turbine inlet temperature, steam ...
In this paper, thermodynamic modelling of a gas turbine cycle with absorption chiller is performed. A thermoeconomic approach is utilised to find the most optimal values of design parameters for practical applications. Some design parameters considered are compressor pressure ratio, compressor isentropic efficiency, gas turbine isentropic efficiency, gas ...
Fuel cell technology is one of the promising systems for cleaner and competitive alternate power generation systems. When the high temperature fuel cells like solid oxide fuel cell and molten carbon fuel cell are integrated with the gas turbines, the total thermal efficiency of the combined cycle can be obtained greater than 60%. ...
This paper presents a comparative exergy study of the performance of various gas turbine power generation plants and a high temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC). ...
Effects of the operating parameters such as turbine inlet temperature and pressure on the thermal efficiency, exergy destruction rate and second-law efficiency were evaluated. ...
In this study the use of Reverse Brayton cycle to boost up the power of gas turbine power plants operating in hot humid ambiance is analysed by the energy and exergy methods. The gas turbine inlet temperature is reduced by mixing the chilled air from Brayton refrigeration cycle and the main intake air stream reaching low intake ...
In this work, the influence of NCGs on the thermodynamic performance of geothermal power plants is analysed for various NCG content and turbine inlet temperatures. The results obtained can be useful on the feasibility study of single flash geothermal power plants. ...
In the present work, exergy analysis of a natural gas fired combined cycle power generation unit is performed to investigate the effect of gas turbine inlet temperature and pressure ratio on exergetic efficiency for the plant and exergy destruction/losses for the components. For a fixed gas turbine inlet ...
This study introduces an exergy cost-minimisation appraisal method for a simple gas turbine co-generation system. Optimisation of a gas turbine co-generation system of the electric output class of 17 MW is examined for a variety of turbine inlet temperatures of 950–1,300°C. An optimum value of the ...
The evaporative gas turbine cycle is a new high-efficiency power cycle that has reached the pilot plant testing stage. The latest configuration proposed for this cycle is known as part flow evaporative gas turbine cycle (PEvGT) in which humidification is combined with steam injection. ...
In this work, the influence of air cooling intake on the gas turbine performance is presented. The proposed system, together with the gas turbine, is described. A mathematical model of ACIGT (Air Cooling Intake Gas Turbine) is derived and formulated in dimensionless form from which the constraint multivariable optimisation problem was formulated. ...
An exergetic analysis was performed for a 116-MW gas-turbine power plant. Mass and energy conservation laws were applied to each component of the system. ...