Rising carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is probably the main reason of global warming. The development of the oxy-fuel combustion cycles is a possible way to decrease the energy sector contribution in the emission process. However, an unusual composition and thermodynamic parameters of the working fluid cause the necessity of revision of the main equipment characteristics, especially for the supercritical carbon dioxide gas turbine. This study presents the method and the results of the flow path preliminary analysis for the new generation gas turbines working on carbon dioxide. The flow path shape with a constant root diameter of seven stages was chosen as the most reasonable due to cheap manufacturing. Influence of reaction degree of stages and velocity ratio on stage geometric parameters are revealed. It was found that the optimal reaction degree and velocity ratio are equal to 0.25 and 0.36 correspondingly. Thermal and constructive stages characteristics of the 350 MW turbine are determined.
Currently, software products for numerical simulation of fluid dynamics processes (Ansys, Star CCM+, Comsol) are widely used in the power engineering industry when designing new equipment. However, computer simulation methods embedded in proprietary software products make specialists choose grid settings, boundary conditions, and a solver providing the minimal deviation from experimental data with the maximal calculation speed. This paper analyzes the influence of the main grid settings and boundary conditions in the Ansys software package on the error in the computer simulation of flows in standard elements of power equipment and gives recommendations for their optimal choice. As standard elements were considered blade turbine channels formed by C-90-22 A profiles.
Coal-fired steam turbine thermal power plants produce a large part of electricity. These power plants usually have low efficiency and high carbon dioxide emission. An application of combined cycle power plants with coal gasification equipped with carbon capture and storage systems may increase the efficiency and decrease the harmful emission. This paper describes investigation of the oxidizer type in the integrated gasification combined cycle combustion chamber and its influence upon the energy and environmental performance. The integrated gasification combined cycle and oxy-fuel combustion technology allow the carbon dioxide capture and storage losses 58% smaller than the traditional air combustion one. The IGCC with air combustion without and with carbon dioxide capture and storage has 53.54 and 46.61% and with oxy-fuel combustion has 34.94 and 32.67% net efficiency. Together with this the CO2 emission drops down from 89.9 to 10.6 gm/kWh. The integrated coal gasification combined cycle with air oxidizer has the best net efficiency.
Mitigation of harmful and greenhouse gas emissions produced by the coal combustion in thermal power plant is a topic goal. Reduction of the nitrogen oxides, sulfur and ash emissions makes remarkable progress but the carbon dioxide emission still meets considerable difficulties mostly caused by the low greenhouse gas content in the flue gas. A prospective solution to this problem may be the fuel combustion in oxygen-enriched air, which increases the flue gas carbon dioxide content. In this technology, the carbon dioxide content in flue gas is higher and this results in its easier capture. This paper presents the thermodynamic analysis results of a steam turbine power production facility that burns coal in the air with high oxygen content. The computer simulation shows that the oxygen content increase from 21 to 95.6% increases the carbon dioxide content in flue gas by a factor of 3.3 and lowers the power consumption for carbon dioxide capture by 11%. On the other side, the power consumption for pure oxygen production reduces the facility’s net efficiency from 28.54 to 21.59%.
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