High-reliability gas turbine combined-cycle development program. Phase I. Final report

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6731322· OSTI ID:6731322

Strong, R. E.; Amos, D. J.; Eagle, K. H.; Francois, G. L.

The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., awarded the Combustion Turbine Systems Division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation a contract under Phase I of Research Project 1187 to develop a conceptual centerline design of a highly reliable combustion-turbine combined-cycle (CTCC) electric power generating plant having the twin design availability goals of 0.95 for the combustion-turbine (CT) engine and 0.90 for the combined-cycle (CC) plant, together with a CT engine starting reliability of 0.99. The work and results off six interrelated tasks are described in this report: (1) reliability analyses of current Westinghouse CT engines/plants and development of methodologies for assessing/predicting CT unit and CC plant reliability/availability, (2) eight CT-unit/CC-plant reliability design trade-off studies featuring cost-of-electricity (less fuel cost) as the evaluation parameter, (3) high-reliability CT unit and CC plant conceptual designs based on the results of the first two tasks, (4) definition of technology research projects required to complete development of the conceptual CTCC plant, (5) analyses of the conceptual designs to determine what modifications are required for peaking duty application and use of lower grade petroleum and coal-derived fuels, and (6) analyses of installed and current-design Westinghouse CT engines/CC plants to determine what retrofit modifications and design changes can be made to economically improve their availability.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Concordville, PA (USA). Combustion Turbine Systems Div.
• OSTI ID: 6731322
• Report Number(s): EPRI-AP-1598
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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