A cogeneration plant can run at off-design due to change of load demand or ambient conditions. The cogeneration considered for this study is gas turbine based engine consists of variable stator vanes (VSVs) compress...A cogeneration plant can run at off-design due to change of load demand or ambient conditions. The cogeneration considered for this study is gas turbine based engine consists of variable stator vanes (VSVs) compressor that are re-staggered for loads greater than 50% to maintain the gas turbine exhaust gas temperature at the set value. In order to evaluate the exergetic performance of the cogeneration, exergy model of each cogeneration component is formulated. A 4.2 MW gas turbine based cogeneration plant is analysed for a wide range of part load operations including the effect of VSVs modulation. For loads less than 50%, the major exergy destruction contributors are the combustor and the loss with the stack gas. At full load, the exergy destructions in the combustor, turbine, heat recovery, compressor and the exergy loss with stack gas are 63.7, 14.1, 11.5, 5.7, and 4.9%, respectively. The corresponding first and second law cogeneration efficiencies are 78.5 and 45%, respectively. For comparison purpose both the first and second law efticiencies of each component are represented together. This analysis would help to identify the equipment where the potential for performance improvement is high, and trends which may aid in the design of future plants.展开更多
As a widely applied technique in multistage axial compressors,variable stator vanes(VSV)can flexibly rematch the blade rows to fulfil a variety of aerodynamic performance requirements,such as high efficiency and wide ...As a widely applied technique in multistage axial compressors,variable stator vanes(VSV)can flexibly rematch the blade rows to fulfil a variety of aerodynamic performance requirements,such as high efficiency and wide surge margin.The purpose of this paper is to develop an optimization method to quickly determine VSV settings during the preliminary design phase.A mean-line method with a model calibration procedure is adopted to evaluate compressor performance,and the NSGA-II algorithm is employed for automatic optimization.The developed optimization system is then employed to determined re-stagger arrangement in a multistage compressor.A single-speed optimization with performance constraints of specific operating point and a multi-speed optimization with different control laws are conducted.Results are compared with available experimental re-stagger scheme,which verifies the effectiveness of the re-stagger optimization method.Moreover,method is proposed to determine operating parameters of a working point with a user-defined pressure ratio or mass flow rate after variable geometry.展开更多
文摘A cogeneration plant can run at off-design due to change of load demand or ambient conditions. The cogeneration considered for this study is gas turbine based engine consists of variable stator vanes (VSVs) compressor that are re-staggered for loads greater than 50% to maintain the gas turbine exhaust gas temperature at the set value. In order to evaluate the exergetic performance of the cogeneration, exergy model of each cogeneration component is formulated. A 4.2 MW gas turbine based cogeneration plant is analysed for a wide range of part load operations including the effect of VSVs modulation. For loads less than 50%, the major exergy destruction contributors are the combustor and the loss with the stack gas. At full load, the exergy destructions in the combustor, turbine, heat recovery, compressor and the exergy loss with stack gas are 63.7, 14.1, 11.5, 5.7, and 4.9%, respectively. The corresponding first and second law cogeneration efficiencies are 78.5 and 45%, respectively. For comparison purpose both the first and second law efticiencies of each component are represented together. This analysis would help to identify the equipment where the potential for performance improvement is high, and trends which may aid in the design of future plants.
基金The authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51606026)for funding this work.
文摘As a widely applied technique in multistage axial compressors,variable stator vanes(VSV)can flexibly rematch the blade rows to fulfil a variety of aerodynamic performance requirements,such as high efficiency and wide surge margin.The purpose of this paper is to develop an optimization method to quickly determine VSV settings during the preliminary design phase.A mean-line method with a model calibration procedure is adopted to evaluate compressor performance,and the NSGA-II algorithm is employed for automatic optimization.The developed optimization system is then employed to determined re-stagger arrangement in a multistage compressor.A single-speed optimization with performance constraints of specific operating point and a multi-speed optimization with different control laws are conducted.Results are compared with available experimental re-stagger scheme,which verifies the effectiveness of the re-stagger optimization method.Moreover,method is proposed to determine operating parameters of a working point with a user-defined pressure ratio or mass flow rate after variable geometry.