Overview of Westinghouse`s Advanced Turbine Systems Program
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Orlando, FL (United States)
Westinghouse`s experience with land based gas turbines started in 1945 with the development of a 2000 hp gas turbine-generator set that consisted of a single reduction gear, compressor, 12 combustors and turbine. A thermal efficiency of 18% was obtained. By 1954, Westinghouse had developed a 15 MW unit (with a regenerator and intercooler) that was designed for a full-load simple cycle efficiency of 29%. As the initial step in the Advanced Turbine Systems (ATS) program, Westinghouse has already developed a 230 MW gas turbine that has a simple cycle efficiency of 38.5% without the use of regeneration and intercooler concepts. In 1967, Westinghouse developed its first gas turbine combined cycle, a synergistic combination of the Brayton and the Rankine cycles. In a combined cycle the heat rejected by the higher temperature topping cycle is recovered in the lower temperature bottoming cycle to produce additional power from the energy initially released by the fuel. In this first Westinghouse combined cycle, a 1450{degrees}F burner outlet temperature gas turbine, rated at 25 MW, supplied exhaust heat which was used in a boiler to furnish steam to drive an 85 MW steam turbine. This plant achieved an annual average efficiency of 39.6%.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC), WV (United States); USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Industrial Technologies
- OSTI ID:
- 269480
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/METC-96/1023-Vol.1; CONF-9510109-Vol.1; ON: DE96000561; TRN: 96:002471-0003
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Advanced turbine systems (ATS) annual review, Morgantown, WV (United States), 17-18 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the Advanced Turbine Systems Annual Program Review meeting. Volume 1; PB: 216 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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