Sustainable gas turbine power generation by adopting green control technologies

Performance analysis of a gas turbine with two configurations (a parallel and series free turbine) is presented and analysed. A simple configuration is analysed here for comparison. The performance parameters are work output, specific fuel consumption (SFC) and efficiency. Off-design characteristics are based on two methods of control, the first (A) is fixing the compressor–turbine inlet temperature (TIT) and varying the power TIT, whereas the second (B) method is by varying the two turbine-inlet temperatures while keeping them equal. Conclusively the series configuration has higher work output (11%), whereas the parallel arrangement has higher efficiency and lower SFC (9%). Hence, as a compromise, it is more efficient and work-productive to use method A (TIT = const.) to control both series and parallel arrangements than using method B (TIT = T5).

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