Gas turbine cogeneration power plant: The criteria and method of the choice for the plant structure
Cogeneration Power Plants equipped with gas turbines under various alternatives represent an attractive solution with the view to provide the heat demand under the form of hot water for the residential areas of urban settlements. Such solution has obvious economic advantages as against the rehabilitation alternative for an exhausted life time district heating plant meant to cover the same district heating demand: The high efficiency of the combined heat and power generation; pollutants reduction (NO{sub x}, SO{sub 2}) in the residential areas where these CPP have been usually located; the fuel optimal use. Basically, the tendency to adopt these solutions have spread to the big towns of Romania where the existing conventional Cogeneration Power Plants represent the sources for supplying heat demand. These CPP operate either on coal, fuel oil or natural gas. Taking into account this practical goal, the authors have set on an analysis method of different equipping variants for gas turbines CPP in order to cover the urban heat demand. These CPP variants refer to either under simple cycle or under combined cycle. The method also represents a step forward for selecting the gas turbines CPP structure based on the optimal fuel usage as a main criterion. The worked out method is exclusively related to the analysis of gas turbines equipping variants running district heating CPP meant to cover urban heat demand. The structure of PC program used as a support of the method provides the determination of the thermodynamic parameters under different CPP equipping solutions. For this reason the method can be easily extended this method to a comparative analysis of other variants including classical steam cycle variants.
- Research Organization:
- Inst. of Power Studies and Design (RO)
- OSTI ID:
- 20018865
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9806214-; TRN: IM200018%%99
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Power-Gen Europe'98, Milan (IT), 06/09/1998--06/11/1998; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating Systems: Windows 3.1, '95, '98 and NT; Macintosh; and UNIX; PBD: [1998]; Related Information: In: Power-gen Europe'98, [2400] pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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