Competitive realities change focus of boiler/HRSG design
This article describes how, faced with competing against gas-fired plants, coal-fired-boiler designers have squeezed cost and scheduling constraints out of their product. Meanwhile, HRSG design reflects the escalating demands placed on modern combined cycles. In the US, emphasis continues to center around reducing construction time and cost. The large capital investment, particularly during the erection phase of the project, and the need to get projects on-line as quickly as possible, have placed a significant premium on fast cycle time. Innovations appear in project implementation strategies rather than on advanced boiler technologies. Perhaps nothing illustrates this last statement better than comparing recent large utility units in the US to those in Europe and japan. At the other end of the scale, heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG) technology is advancing rapidly to keep pace with ever more powerful gas turbines in combined-cycle (CC) configurations. In fact, the once simple HRSG now anchors a complex steam cycle fully integrated with the gas turbine. Triple pressure levels, NO{sub x} injection steam, steam turbine bypass, elevating steam pressures and temperatures, supplementary firing, selective catalytic reduction, and even accommodating a coal-gasification process are a sampling of extras HRSG designers must accommodate.
- OSTI ID:
- 215447
- Journal Information:
- Power (New York), Journal Name: Power (New York) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 140; ISSN POWEAD; ISSN 0032-5929
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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