Performances of a gas turbine power plant with a direct evaporative saturator

IF 5.1 3区工程技术 Q2 ENERGY & FUELS

Thermal Science and Engineering Progress Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI:10.1016/j.tsep.2024.103047

Samira Pourhedayat, Eric Hu, Lei Chen

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Abstract

One way to improve the performance of gas turbine power plants is to saturate the compressed air (from the compressor) before it enters the combustion chamber, using a saturator. Indeed, utilization of an air saturator has the potential to augment the enthalpy within the combustion chamber, which may ultimately lead to an enhancement in the overall performance of the gas turbine. A direct evaporative cooler (DEC) is proposed as the saturator, i.e. DES for the GT plant in this study. The impact of the DES on the performance of the GT power plant has been studied in general through a sensitivity analysis and specifically through a case study, using an analytical model developed in this study and programmed in Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software. It has been demonstrated that increasing the inlet air and water temperatures in a DES system can lead to a notable enhancement in the performance of a gas turbine. The findings of the study indicated that the utilization of a DES could result in an increase of up to 7 % in power output and thermal efficiency of the GT in comparison to a gas turbine that does not possess a saturator. This improvement is achievable if waste heat is partially recovered through a heat recovery system (HRS) and employed for the purpose of preheating both the compressed air and water that are entering the DES. This improvement is approximately 6 % and 4 % respectively, if only the saturator inlet water or air temperatures were increased separately.

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带直接蒸发饱和器的燃气轮机发电厂的性能

提高燃气轮机发电厂性能的一种方法是在压缩空气（来自压缩机）进入燃烧室之前使用饱和器使其饱和。事实上，使用空气饱和器有可能增加燃烧室内的热焓，从而最终提高燃气轮机的整体性能。本研究建议采用直接蒸发冷却器 (DEC) 作为饱和器，即 GT 设备的 DES。本研究使用工程方程求解器 (EES) 软件编程开发了一个分析模型，通过敏感性分析和案例研究，研究了 DES 对 GT 发电厂性能的总体影响。研究表明，提高 DES 系统的进气温度和水温可显著提高燃气轮机的性能。研究结果表明，与没有饱和器的燃气轮机相比，使用 DES 可使燃气轮机的功率输出和热效率提高 7%。如果通过热回收系统 (HRS) 回收部分废热，并将其用于预热进入 DES 的压缩空气和水，则可实现这一改进。如果只分别提高饱和器入口水或空气的温度，则可分别提高约 6% 和 4%。

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Thermal Science and Engineering Progress Chemical Engineering-Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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327

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41 days

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