Second-generation PFBC systems research and development, Phase 2 topping combustor development
The use of a Circulating Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustor (CPFBC) as the primary combustion system for a combustion turbine requires transporting compressor air to the CPFBC and vitiated air/fuel gas back to the turbine. In addition, the topping combustion system must be located in the returning vitiated airflow path. The conventional fuel system and turbine center section require major changes for the applications. The combustion zone of the Westinghouse 501F turbine currently in production cannot contain the topping combustion system within the main structural pressure shell. Although the pressure casing can be enlarged both radially and longitudinally to accommodate the topping combustor system, the integrity and rigidity of the main shell would be significantly affected and, it could introduce rotor dynamics problems and preclude shipping the unit assembled. The currently favored configuration, which utilizes two topping combustor assemblies, one on each side of the unit, is shown in Figure 1. Half of the vitiated air from the CPFBC enters each of the internal plenum chambers in which the topping combustors are mounted. Fuel gas enters the assembly via the fuel nozzles at the head end of the combustor. Combustion occurs, and the products of combustion are ducted into the main shell for distribution to the first-stage turbine vanes. Compressor discharge air leaves the main shell, flowing around the annular duct into adjacent combustion shells. The air flows around the vitiated air plenums and leaves each combustion assembly via nozzles and is ducted to the CPFBC and carbonizer.
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Orlando, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC21-86MC21023
- OSTI ID:
- 10187842
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/21023-93/C0211; CONF-9306148-48; ON: DE93040922
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Coal-fired power systems `93: advances in IGCC and PFBC review meeting,Morgantown, WV (United States),28-30 Jun 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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