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Repowering existing under-utilized WTE power plant with gas turbines

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  • Bianchi, Michele
  • Branchini, Lisa
  • Cesari, Simone
  • De Pascale, Andrea
  • Melino, Francesco

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Several Northern European countries are facing an incineration plant capacity larger than national generation of waste, mainly caused by a reduced availability of waste, economic crisis and over-investments. This is causing several WTE power plants to operate at reduced or under-utilized waste input capacity. In the aforementioned context, this paper focuses on two repowering options to improve waste conversion efficiency of an existing under-utilized Waste-To-Energy (WTE) power plant with a Gas Turbine (GT). In particular, this study investigates the feasibility of middle pressure repowering strategies: additional steam is produced in a simplified Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) fed by the GT exhaust gas. The proposed repowering options are quite simple and easy to adapt to mid-size under-utilized types of WTE power plant.

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  • Bianchi, Michele & Branchini, Lisa & Cesari, Simone & De Pascale, Andrea & Melino, Francesco, 2015. "Repowering existing under-utilized WTE power plant with gas turbines," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 902-911.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:160:y:2015:i:c:p:902-911
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.076
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