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2 - Ground-Based Gas Turbine Combustion

Metrics, Constraints, and System Interactions

from Part 1 - Overview and Key Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2013

By
Vincent McDonell  and
Manfred Klein
Edited by
Tim C. Lieuwen  and
Vigor Yang
Tim C. Lieuwen
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Vigor Yang
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary

Introduction

A serious need for future energy resources worldwide is apparent, driven by high-population countries such as India and China that are rapidly developing infrastructure for energy, as well as growth or repowering in developed countries. Gas turbines play a preeminent role in the stationary power generation marketplace and should remain a critical part of the market mix for the foreseeable future, despite competition from reciprocating engines and newer technologies such as fuel cells. Alternative technologies compete with gas turbines in certain size classes, but at power generation levels above 5 MW, gas turbines offer the most attractive option because of their relatively low capital, operating, and maintenance costs. Hence, these engines are increasingly relied upon for clean power production from a variety of fuels. The configurations for these systems involve high efficiencies as well. As a result, the market will continue to demand gas turbines.

Chapter 1 discusses the drivers and consideration for aero gas turbines. While much of that discussion applies to gas turbines in general, the use of gas turbines for ground-based applications gives rise to additional and/or different metrics, constraints, and much wider possible overall system interactions relative to the combustion system. These turbines vary in size from 10 s of kW to hundreds of MW. The applications vary from power generation to mechanical work (e.g., Soares, 2008). In power generation, the gas turbine shaft is coupled to a generator either directly or via a gearbox (“direct drive”). For mechanical work, the gas turbine provides power to a mechanical device such as a compressor or pump (“mechanical drive”). In power generation, the gas turbine may often be combined with other equipment to form “combined cycle” systems (e.g., combining a gas turbine generator with infrastructure to collect exhaust heat to produce steam to drive a steam turbine).

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Gas Turbine Emissions , pp. 24 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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