A gas turbine combined cycle plant, where gas turbine waste heat raises steam in a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) to drive steam turbines. • A coal-fired boiler also generates steam to drive steam turbines. • A nuclear powered boiler that raises steam to drive steam turbines. Small-Scale Combined Heat and Power—CHP (Items 3 and 4, Table 1–1)
Read MoreCombined-cycle power plants (Fig. 2.3) are compound gas turbine–steam turbine systems wherein the extreme hot exhaust from a gas turbine is employed to run a boiler, and the steam thus produced is fed into a steam turbine to generate power.These plants can deliver high power output at efficiencies as high as 50%–60% with low emissions and produce 50% more electricity than a simple-cycle
Read MoreCombined cycle power generation improves the general thermal efficiency of the plant by recovering this high temperature exhaust gas. Many combined cycle power generation plants adopt a waste heat recovery cycle in which exhaust gas from the gas turbine is led to the waste heat recovery boiler to generate steam using recovered heat to drive the
Read Morea coal fired boiler system in a combined cycle configuration can provide an efficient system with reduced environmental impact, whilst still addressing the operational demands. 2. Elements of Combined Cycle / Combined Heat and Power Processes 2.1. Gas Turbine A gas turbine is a machine, which converts the energy of burning gas into the rotational
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