Machines. Technologies. Materials.
Vol. 12 (2018), Issue 11, pg(s) 346-439

Gas turbine upgrade with heat regenerator – numerical analysis of advantages and disadvantages

  • 1 Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The paper presents analysis of industrial gas turbine and its upgrade with heat regenerator. Based on a gas turbine operational data from a thermal power plant (base process) it was investigated advantages and disadvantages of heat regenerator implementation in the gas turbine process. Regenerator efficiencies were varied between 75% and 95%. Heat regenerator causes decrease of gas turbine fuel consumption up to 0.621 kg/s with a simultaneous increase in gas turbine process efficiency up to 10.52%. The main disadvantages of heat regenerator implementation are decrease in turbine cumulative and useful power along with decrease in the cumulative amount of heat released from the process.

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