[PDF][PDF] Comparison of different gas turbine inlet air cooling methods

APP dos Santos, CR Andrade… - World academy of science …, 2012 - academia.edu
APP dos Santos, CR Andrade, EL Zaparoli
World academy of science, engineering and technology, 2012academia.edu
Gas turbine air inlet cooling is a useful method for increasing output for regions where
significant power demand and highest electricity prices occur during the warm months. Inlet
air cooling increases the power output by taking advantage of the gas turbine's feature of
higher mass flow rate when the compressor inlet temperature decreases. Different methods
are available for reducing gas turbine inlet temperature. There are two basic systems
currently available for inlet cooling. The first and most cost-effective system is evaporative …
Abstract
Gas turbine air inlet cooling is a useful method for increasing output for regions where significant power demand and highest electricity prices occur during the warm months. Inlet air cooling increases the power output by taking advantage of the gas turbine’s feature of higher mass flow rate when the compressor inlet temperature decreases. Different methods are available for reducing gas turbine inlet temperature. There are two basic systems currently available for inlet cooling. The first and most cost-effective system is evaporative cooling. Evaporative coolers make use of the evaporation of water to reduce the gas turbine’s inlet air temperature. The second system employs various ways to chill the inlet air. In this method, the cooling medium flows through a heat exchanger located in the inlet duct to remove heat from the inlet air. However, the evaporative cooling is limited by wet-bulb temperature while the chilling can cool the inlet air to temperatures that are lower than the wet bulb temperature. In the present work, a thermodynamic model of a gas turbine is built to calculate heat rate, power output and thermal efficiency at different inlet air temperature conditions. Computational results are compared with ISO conditions herein called" base-case". Therefore, the two cooling methods are implemented and solved for different inlet conditions (inlet temperature and relative humidity). Evaporative cooler and absorption chiller systems results show that when the ambient temperature is extremely high with low relative humidity (requiring a large temperature reduction) the chiller is the more suitable cooling solution. The net increment in the power output as a function of the temperature decrease for each cooling method is also obtained.
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