Thermoflow Inc products

GT PRO^® automates the process of creating a combined cycle or gas turbine cogeneration plant design, guiding the user to rapidly and easily attain an optimal configuration and technical parameters. The user inputs design criteria, starting with the big picture and progressing in a logical sequence into greater details. Built-in expert logic automatically selects appropriate options and inputs for the various details, based on the user’s high level selections. The program designs the new plant, computes its performance, its detailed heat and mass balance, and creates its major equipment physical sizes and design details. When combined with the optional PEACE module, it also creates the plant’s preliminary engineering details, estimates its cost, and finds its cash flow and economic pro-forma.

GT MASTER^® simulates performance of a given plant at different operating conditions, such as different ambients, loads and control set-points.  A GT MASTER plant model is defined by its hardware, by contrast with a GT PRO model which is defined by the assumptions used to create the hardware. The 4,000+ inputs which define plant hardware and control set-points are all initialized upon importing its GT PRO design. All these inputs may be adjusted and fine-tuned by the user. For example, the user may change the physical hardware of a heat exchanger within a HRSG, to make it match the specs provided by the HRSG’s vendor. As another example, the user may adjust a steam turbine nozzle area at the inlet to any group of stages, to match the pressure-flow characteristics supplied by the steam turbine vendor. As yet another example, the user may change the diameter, length, fittings, material, etc, of a pipe that had been initially sized by GT PRO. 

PDE^TM (Plant Design Expert) is an intelligent shell that uses the GT PRO/GT MASTER design and simulation engines. PDE is a compact expert program, with built-in logic to create and configure suitable gas turbine power and cogeneration plants based on the user’s electricity and heat demands, site parameters, and constraints. It rapidly creates side-by-side comparisons of performance and economics of different plant options. For any option it creates, it also computes fuel demand curves across a range of loads and ambient. It accomplishes these tasks by exploiting the GT PRO & GT MASTER calculation engines behind an abbreviated interface focused on the big picture.

STEAM PRO^® automates the process of designing a conventional (Rankine cycle) steam power plant, guiding the user to rapidly and easily attain an optimal configuration and its technical parameters. The user inputs design criteria, starting with the big picture and progressing in a logical sequence into greater details. Built-in expert logic automatically selects appropriate options and inputs for the various details, based on the user’s high level selections. The program designs the new plant, computes its performance, its detailed heat and mass balance, and creates its major equipment physical sizes and design details. When combined with the optional PEACE module, it also creates the plant’s preliminary engineering details, estimates its cost, and finds its cash flow and economic pro-forma.

STEAM MASTER^® simulates performance of a given plant at different operating conditions, such as part-loads, feed water heater by-pass, different environmental parameters, etc. A STEAM MASTER plant model is defined by its hardware, in contrast to a STEAM PRO model which is defined by the assumptions used to create the hardware. The 3,500+ inputs which define plant hardware and control set-points are all initialized upon importing its STEAM PRO design. All these inputs may be adjusted and fine-tuned by the user. For example, the user may change the physical hardware of a radiant furnace, or a feed water heater, or a condenser, or a pipe, etc, to match vendor or final engineering specs.