Simulation analysis of a repowered double fuel CHP plant including a non‐evaporative heat recovery boiler

A repowering analysis of a conventional, coal‐fired industrial combined heat and power (CHP) plant by means of a gas turbine (GT) and heat recovery boiler (HRB) has been taken into consideration. The existing system, operating in one of the Polish chemical factories consists of coal‐fired boilers, back‐pressure extraction turbines, condensing turbines and steam‐fed district heat exchangers. Two variants of modernization have been proposed and examined from the thermodynamic, environmental protection and economical points of view. The first one includes HRB for preheating the boiler feed water, condensate, and district water, while the steam turbine (ST) system and coal boilers work without any structural changes. The other advanced variant introduces live steam superheaters to HRB. The coal‐fired boilers, in this light, supply only saturated steam (which is introduced into HRB), so they have to be readjusted by replacing the existing superheaters with convective vaporizers for proper flue gas cooling. Such a scheme ensures a considerable reduction of exergy losses in HRB and therefore leads to deeper flue gas cooling and a decrease of coal consumption for the assumed process steam and district heat demands. Heat and process steam demand duration curves for a typical year of operation of the plant have been adapted as input data. The mathematical model of the whole CHP plant has been built on GateCycle and Visual Basic software. The model includes design and off design analyses of boilers, steam and gas turbines and also takes into account shut‐down necessities, concerning machines during their operation outside the acceptable area of their key parameters (e.g. the minimum steam flow in the condensing section of the turbines from the point of view of rotor cooling). The computation was run many times for different sets of input data, read from the demand duration curves. Finally, the yearly values of solid and gaseous fuel consumption, as well as electricity production have been calculated. Both proposed variants of the repowered CHP system have been compared with the existing plant by means of the incremental cumulative economy of chemical energy and pollutant emission. An approximate classical economy analysis net present value (NPV), discounted pay back (DPB) has also been carried out. The whole computation has been replayed for several market GT models. The results obtained lead to the conclusion that repowering of a coal‐fired plant by means of a GT and HRB is a very effective way to improve the thermodynamic and environmental protection aspects of power and heat generation. The introduction of the live steam superheater into HRB provides additional advantages in these fields. The economic results indicate DPBs from 3 to 11 years, depending on the situation at the electricity and fuel markets. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Thermo‐Economic Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization of Dual Pressure Combined Cycle Power Plant with Supplementary Firing

The heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and duct burner are parts of a combined cycle which have considerable effect on the steam generation. The effect of the gas turbine, duct burner and HRSG on power generation is investigated to reduce exergy destruction and power loss in the gas turbine. The results show that with an increase in duct burner flow rate, pressure loss in the recovery boiler increases, steam generation increases on the HP side while it decreases on the LP side. With a reduction in the HP pinch point, thermal recovery increases while the LP pinch point does not have a significant effect. Then, power loss due to pressure drop in the gas turbine and the electricity cost are considered as two objective functions for optimization. Finally, the sensitivity analysis on ambient temperature, compressor pressure ratio, fuel lower heating value, duct burner fuel rate, condenser pressure and main pressure are performed and results are reported. It is concluded that with an increment in compressor pressure ratio, the duct burner flow rate and consequently steam generation increases while electricity cost decrease.     

可压缩流体网络技术在电站仿真系统中的应用

针对火电站实际系统部分流体在流动过程中密度变化大的特点，从基本物理定律出发，介绍了可压缩流体网络的建模方法。考虑了蒸汽、空气、烟气等流体的不同物性、蒸汽在膨胀中湿度变化、散热、摩阻的影响、风机低流量的稳定性和引风系统中煤粉浓度、烟气温度对导纳的影响。该模型已用于大型火电机组的风烟系统和主蒸汽系统的实时仿真。仿真结果表明：模型准确有效地仿真风烟系统和主蒸汽系统的动静态特性，与现场的试验纪录保持一致。该模型适用于电站风烟系统、主蒸汽系统等可压缩流体的全工况实时仿真。     

Implementation of repowering optimization for an existing photovoltaic‐pumped hydro storage hybrid system: A case study in Sichuan,China

For a remote area or an isolated island, where the grid has not extended, a standalone hybrid energy system can provide cheap and adequate power for local users. However, with the development of society, the load demand will increase and the original system cannot completely meet the load demand. This situation occurs in Xiaojin, Sichuan, China. The existing photovoltaic‐pumped hydro storage (PV‐PHS) hybrid system in this area as the original system cannot completely meet the load requirements at present. The term “repowering” aims to maximize the reliability of power supply and the utilization of the PV‐PHS hybrid energy system that differs from traditional planning optimization to build all components. The repowering strategy is to integrate wind turbines (WTs) and battery into the original system. For the repowering system, a power management strategy is proposed to determine the operating modes of the PHS and battery. Three objectives, which are minimizing percentage of the demand not supplied, levelized cost of energy, and curtailment rate of renewable energy, are considered in the optimization model. Simulation is conducted by single‐objective, biobjective, and triobjective particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques. For the single‐objective optimization, the comparison of PSO and genetic algorithm (GA) is made. For the double‐objective optimization, multiobjective PSO (MOPSO) is compared with weighted sum approach (WSA), and fuzzy satisfying method is utilized to find the win‐win solution. The results reveal that the repowering strategy can help to achieve maximum reliability of power supply after load demand increases significantly, and the battery plays an important role in such a hybrid system.     

Design and partial load exergy analysis of hybrid SOFC–GT power plant

This paper presents a full and partial load exergy analysis of a hybrid SOFC–GT power plant. The plant basically consists of: an air compressor, a fuel compressor, several heat exchangers, a radial gas turbine, mixers, a catalytic burner, an internal reforming tubular solid oxide fuel cell stack, bypass valves, an electrical generator and an inverter. The model is accurately described. Special attention is paid at the calculation of SOFC overpotentials. Maps are introduced, and properly scaled, in order to evaluate the partial load performance of turbomachineries. The plant is simulated at full-load and part-load operation, showing energy and exergy flows trough all its components and thermodynamic properties at each key-point. At full-load operation a maximum value of 65.4% of electrical efficiency is achieved. Three different part-load strategies are introduced. The off-design operation is achieved handling the following parameters: air mass flow rate, fuel mass flow rate, combustor bypass, gas turbine bypass, avoiding the use of a variable speed control system. Results showed that the most efficient part-load strategy corresponded to a constant value of the fuel to air ratio. On the other hand, a lower value of net electrical power (34% of nominal load) could be achieved reducing fuel flow rate, at constant air flow rate. This strategy produces an electrical efficiency drop that becomes 45%.     

Exergy analysis of a 420 MW combined cycle power plant

Combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) have an important role in power generation. The objective of this paper is to evaluate irreversibility of each part of Neka CCPP using the exergy analysis. The results show that the combustion chamber, gas turbine, duct burner and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) are the main sources of irreversibility representing more than 83% of the overall exergy losses. The results show that the greatest exergy loss in the gas turbine occurs in the combustion chamber due to its high irreversibility. As the second major exergy loss is in HRSG, the optimization of HRSG has an important role in reducing the exergy loss of total combined cycle. In this case, LP‐SH has the worst heat transfer process. The first law efficiency and the exergy efficiency of CCPP are calculated. Thermal and exergy efficiencies of Neka CCPP are 47 and 45.5% without duct burner, respectively. The results show that if the duct burner is added to HRSG, these efficiencies are reduced to 46 and 44%. Nevertheless, the results show that the CCPP output power increases by 7.38% when the duct burner is used. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Highly integrated post‐combustion carbon capture process in a coal‐fired power plant with solar repowering

While post‐combustion carbon capture (PCC) technology has been considered as the ready‐to‐retrofit carbon capture solution, the implementation of the technology remains hampered by high costs associated with the large energy penalty incurred by solvent regeneration. This paper presents a highly integrated PCC process for a coal‐fired power plant with solar repowering that features significantly enhanced energy efficiency. Validated process models are developed for the power, capture, and solar thermal plants and simulated in a model superstructure to evaluate the possible improvements in power plant energy efficiency and power output penalty reductions. A 660‐MW power plant is taken as the case study. Three cases are used in this simulation analysis: (a) base case consisting of 660‐MW power plant integrated with a PCC plant, (b) the base case extended to incorporate solar repowering, and (c) a highly integrated case that extends on the previous case to include CO₂ gas compression unit heat integration. This study also highlights and discusses the role and interaction of various PCC and solar plant variables (e.g., solar field size, steam extraction flow rate, and twin LP turbine pressures) in the integration with power plant parameters. In particular, the power plant deaerator conditions play an important role in determining the total solar thermal energy required from the solar plant, thus dictating the solar field size. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Modelling of heat transfer and fluid flow in the hot section of gas turbines used in power generation: A comprehensive survey

Power generation is one of the major industries or businesses globally. Although, at present, a major attention has been paid towards the sustainable energy technologies, both gas and steam turbines are still heavily used in the power generation sector worldwide. Usually, gas turbines are used to drive an electrical power generator in simple systems, or they are used in combined cycle plants together with steam turbines. This paper presents a comprehensive review on modelling of heat transfer and fluid flow in hot section of gas turbines used in the power generation sector. Visibly, heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics directly affect the thermal efficiency and the overall performance of the gas turbines. Hence, existing models relating to heat transfer and fluid flow inside gas turbines are discussed in detail. Primarily, methods relating to the first principle modelling, empirical modelling, and finite element modelling are reviewed comprehensively, and then, a discussion is provided together with a comparison among models in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, some existing issues such as the environmental impact are discussed which still remain as challenges to the power generation industry together with some of the possible future directions for improvements.     

Energetic and exergetic analysis of a hybrid combined‐nuclear power plant

Combined‐cycle power plants are currently preferred for new power generation plants worldwide. The performance of gas‐turbine engines can be enhanced at constant turbine inlet temperatures with the addition of a bottoming waste‐heat recovery cycle. This paper presents a study on the energy and exergy analysis of a novel hybrid Combined‐Nuclear Power Plant (HCNPP). It is thus interesting to evaluate the possibility of integrating the gas turbine with nuclear power plant of such a system, utilizing virtually free heat. The integration arrangement of the AP600 NPP steam cycle with gas turbines from basic thermodynamic considerations will be described. The AP600 steam cycle modifications to combine with the gas turbines can be applied to other types of NPP. A simple modeling of Alstom gas turbines cycle, one of the major combined‐cycle steam turbines manufacturers, hybridized with a nuclear power plant from energetic and exergetic viewpoint is provided. The Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) has single steam pressure without reheat, one superheater and one economizer. The thermodynamic parameters of the working fluids of both the gas and the steam turbines cycles are analyzed by modeling the thermodynamic cycle using the Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software. In case of hybridizing, the existing Alstom gas turbine with a pressurized water nuclear power plants using the newly proposed novel solution, we can increase the electricity output and efficiency significantly. If we convert a traditional combined cycle to HCNPP unit, we can achieve about 20% increase in electricity output. This figure emphasizes the significance of restructuring our power plant technology and exploring a wider variety of HCNPP solutions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Technology effects in repowering wind turbines

This research investigates, analyses, and quantifies the technological effects of wind turbine repowering (ie, where old turbines are removed and new turbines are installed at the same or a very close location, including the enhanced performance in energy production). In these cases, it is assumed that both old and new turbines are subject to the same wind regime, other than because of technological elements, such as hub height, and thus it is possible to isolate the effects of new technology from the effect of changing local wind conditions. This research is based on the analysis of empirical data on repowering turbines in Denmark and Germany, and on historical production data available for the Danish component of the data set. Technological innovations are expected to enable new wind turbines to capture more energy at the repowering site, mostly through larger rotors and higher hub heights, and this is what this study has analysed. The results show that new turbines in repowering projects are twice as high, have three times the rotor diameter, nine times the swept area, six times the nominal power, and nine times as much electricity as the old turbines. However, the most significant improvement is probably the increase of capacity factor of 7.1% on a per‐turbine basis, or 9.7% on a per‐production basis.     

Improvement of part load efficiency of a combined cycle power plant provisioning ancillary services

According to the type of ancillary service provisioned, operation mode of a power plant may change to part load operation. In this contribution, part load operation is understood as delivering a lower power output than possible at given ambient temperature because of gas turbine power output control. If it is economically justified, a power plant may operate in the part load mode for longer time. Part load performance of a newly built 80 MW combined cycle in Slovakia was studied in order to assess the possibilities for fuel savings. Based on online monitoring data three possibilities were identified: condensate preheating by activation of the currently idle hot water section; change in steam condensing pressure regulation strategy; and the most important gas turbine inlet air preheating. It may seem to be in contradiction with the well proven concept of gas turbine inlet air cooling, which has however been developed for boosting the gas turbine cycles in full load operation. On the contrary, in a combined cycle in the part load operation mode, elevated inlet air temperature does not affect the part load operation of gas turbines but it causes more high pressure steam to be raised in HRSG, which leads to higher steam turbine power output. As a result, less fuel needs to be combusted in gas turbines in order to achieve the requested combined cycle’s power output. By simultaneous application of all three proposals, more than a 2% decrease in the power plant’s natural gas consumption can be achieved with only minor capital expenses needed.     

Investigation of Combustion of Emulated Biogas in a Gas Turbine Test Rig

Combustion of biogas in gas turbines is an interesting option for provision of renewable combined heat and power from biomass. Due to an increasing share of fluctuating renewable energies in the power grid(especially from wind and solar power), flexible power generation is of increasing importance. Additionally, with an increasing share of agricultural and municipal waste in biogas production, biogas composition is expected to be within a broader range. In this paper, the combustion of synthetic biogas(carbon dioxide and methane) in a combustion test rig with a swirl burner and a high pressure optical chamber is researched at different conditions. Results are compared to a CHEMKIN-PRO simulation using a detailed reaction mechanism. The results show that within the researched experimental matrix, stable biogas combustion for gas turbines can be achieved even with significantly changing gas composition and nominal power. Carbon dioxide concentration is varied from 0 to 60%. CO concentrations(normalized to 15% O_2) in the flue gas do not change significantly with increasing carbon dioxide in the fuel gas and, for the researched conditions, stayed below 10 ppm. NO_x concentration is below 10 ppm(normalized to 15% O_2) for pure methane, and is further decreasing with increasing carbon dioxide share in the fuel gas, which is mainly due to changing reaction paths as reaction analysis showed. Thermal load of the combustor is varied from 100% to 20% for the reference gas composition. With decreasing thermal load, normalized carbon monoxide flue gas concentration is further reduced, while NOx concentrations are remaining at a similar level around 5 ppm(normalized to 15% O_2).     

AE94.3A型燃气轮机进气冷却的应用可行性研究

对AE94.3A型燃气轮机燃气-蒸汽联合循环热力系统平衡进行研究进而发现,与同类型、同等级不同型号机组相比,AE94.3A型联合循环机组余热锅炉的排烟温度较高,排烟余热仍有进一步利用的空间。通过设计优化,扩大省煤器受热面,回收烟气余热加热给水,驱动热水型溴化锂制冷机制冷,用于机组满负荷调峰时的压气机进气冷却或厂房及办公区域空调供冷,对改善燃气轮机联合循环的运行性能,实现能源梯级利用,提高能源利用率和机组经济性运行起到了很大作用。     

低热值煤层气燃烧器结构优化的实验研究

对一种低热值煤层气燃烧器进行优化设计,在燃气管内设置导流叶片,并在旋流空气管和燃气管之间增加一根直流空气管,对此燃烧器进行冷态和热态实验,结果表明:改进后的燃烧器旋流强度沿中心轴线比原燃烧器下降平缓,在中心轴线相同位置处大于原燃烧器,改进后的燃烧嚣旋流强度最大值为0.53;改进后的燃烧器燃烧温度沿中心轴线比原燃烧器上升快,在中心轴线0.55 m处,温度达到最大值1 440 K;在相同热负荷下,温度峰值比原燃烧器更靠近喷口,且比原燃烧器大.原燃烧器火焰尾部温度高,火焰长,局部容积热强度低.     

Gas turbine turbocharged by a steam turbine: a gas turbine solution increasing combined power plant efficiency and power

A new design of a combined-cycle gas turbine power plant CCGT with sequential combustion that increases efficiency and power output in relation to conventional CCGT plants is studied. The innovative proposal consists fundamentally in using all the power of the steam turbine to turbocharge the gas turbine. A computer program has been developed to carry out calculations and to evaluate performance over a wide range of operating conditions. The obtained results are compared with those of combined cycles where the gas turbines are not turbocharged and the gas and the steam turbines have independent power exits; the advantages of the new design are stated.     

Combining the nuclear power plant steam cycle with gas turbines

Nuclear steam power plants (NPP) are characterized by low efficiency, compared to steam power plants using fossil fuels. This is due to the relatively low temperature and pressure-throttling conditions of the NPP compared to those using fossil fuel. The light water pressurized water reactor (LW PWR) commercially known as AP600 was suggested for Kuwait cogeneration power desalting plant (CPDP). It has 600 MW nominal power capacity and 33% overall efficiency. Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) installed plenty of gas turbines (GTs) to cover the drastic increase in the peak electrical load during the summer season. Combining some of these GTs with the AP600 can increase the capacity and efficiency of the combined plant, compared to either the GT open cycle or the NPP separate plants. This paper investigates the feasibility of utilizing the hot gases leaving the GT to superheat the steam leaving the steam generator of the AP600 NPP, as well as heating the feed water returning to the steam generator of the NPP condenser. This drastically increases the power output and the efficiency of the NPP. Detailed modifications to the NPP power cycle and the resulting enhancement of its performance are presented.     

螺旋纽带在凝汽器中强化换热及除垢的应用

介绍了一种可用于中小热电厂汽轮机凝汽器在线除垢及强化换热的螺旋纽带装置,分析了该装置在实际运行中对传热端差及负荷的影响。应用此装置能减小传热端差,提高汽轮机负荷,收益显著。     

燃机电厂9F型机组热电负荷优化分配研究

电厂热电负荷优化分配是指在全厂总调度负荷下,根据各机组的热力性能确定各机组应承担的热电负荷,使得全厂效益最大或能耗最小的一种最优化问题.不同于燃煤热电厂,燃机电厂9F型机组由于设计为燃气轮机加蒸汽轮机的组合方式运行,因此在联合循环热力性能模型建立上较为复杂.提出了将余热锅炉新蒸汽参数作为中间变量,建立了机组天然气燃料消耗与电负荷、热负荷之间的关系模型,确定了优化计算的目标函数和边界约束条件,并采用非线性规划方法求解.模拟与实际运行结果均表明,该优化分配方法能有效降低燃机电厂燃料消耗水平,可以为同类型燃机电厂热电负荷优化分配提供参考.     

A modern injected steam gas turbine cogeneration system based on exergy concept

Factors such as low capital cost, good match of power and heat requirements and proven reliability can sometimes lead an end user into purchasing gas turbines for use in a modern cogeneration plant. The steam‐injected gas turbine is an attractive electrical generating technology for mitigating the impacts of rising energy prices. According to such mentioned above this paper is to provide results of an optimization study on cogeneration power cycle, which works by gas turbine with recuperator and injection steam added to the combustor of the gas turbine. The performance characteristics of the cycle based on energy and exergy concepts and based upon practical performance constraints were investigated. The effect of the recuperator on the cycle was greatly clarified. Results also show that the output power of a gas turbine increases when steam is injected. When extra steam has to be generated in order to be able to inject steam and at the same time to provide for a given heat demand, power generating efficiency increases but cogeneration efficiency decreases with the increasing of injected steam. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effects of supplementary biomass firing on the performance of combined cycle power generation: A comparison between NGCC and IGCC plants

In the present work, effects of biomass supplementary firing on the performance of fossil fuel fired combined cycles have been analyzed. Both natural gas fired combined cycle (NGCC) and integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) have been considered in the study. The efficiency of the NGCC plant monotonically reduces with the increase in supplementary firing, while for the IGCC plant the maximum plant efficiency occurs at an optimum degree of supplementary firing. This difference in the nature of variation of the efficiency of two plants under the influence of supplementary firing has been critically analyzed in the paper. The ratings of different plant equipments, fuel flow rates and the emission indices of CO₂ from the plants at varying degree of supplementary firing have been evaluated for a net power output of 200 MW. The fraction of total power generated by the bottoming cycle increases with the increase in supplementary firing. However, the decrease in the ratings of gas turbines is much more than the increase in that of the steam turbines due to the low work ratio of the topping cycle. The NGCC plants require less biomass compared to the IGCC under identical condition. A critical degree of supplementary firing has been identified for the slag free operation of the biomass combustor. The performance parameters, equipment ratings and fuel flow rates for no supplementary firing and for the critical degree of supplementary biomass firing have been compared for the NGCC and IGCC plants.