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System Performance and Pollutant Emissions of Micro Gas Turbine Combined Cycle in Variable Fuel Type Cases

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  • Xiaotao Zhang

    (College of Energy and Power Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 36 North Ring Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou 450011, China)

  • Yichao Wu

    (College of Energy and Power Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 36 North Ring Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou 450011, China)

  • Wenxian Zhang

    (College of Energy and Power Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 36 North Ring Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou 450011, China)

  • Qixian Wang

    (College of Energy and Power Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 36 North Ring Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou 450011, China)

  • Aijun Wang

    (College of Energy and Power Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 36 North Ring Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou 450011, China)

Abstract

This study focuses on an investigation of the operating performance and pollutant emission characteristics of a micro gas turbine combined cycle using biomass gas, replacing natural gas. The models of both recuperative cycle micro gas turbines with a waste heat utilization system and a micro gas-steam turbine combined cycle system are established. When the gas turbine works at 100 kW and the same types of fuel are burnt, the recuperative cycle system consumes less fuel than the gas-steam combined cycle system. The electric efficiency of the recuperative cycle system can reach more than 29%, which is higher than 24% of the gas-steam combined system. The combined cycle thermal efficiency of the recuperative system is as high as 66%, with 36% waste heat utilization efficiency. The electrical efficiency of the recuperative cycle system in the biomass gas case decreases, while that of the gas-steam combined cycle system undergoes little change. When the gas turbine power output increases from 50 kW to 100 kW, the electrical efficiency and combined cycle thermal efficiency increases, but the thermal efficiency of waste heat utilization of recuperative cycle decreases, the NO X and SO 2 emissions gradually rise. Under the same working conditions, the NO X emissions of the recuperative cycle system are greater than that of the steam-gas combined cycle system.

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  • Xiaotao Zhang & Yichao Wu & Wenxian Zhang & Qixian Wang & Aijun Wang, 2022. "System Performance and Pollutant Emissions of Micro Gas Turbine Combined Cycle in Variable Fuel Type Cases," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(23), pages 1-17, December.
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