Title: Performance advantages of a gas-STREAM MHD retrofit
Abstract: Retrofitting existing power plants with an open-cycle MHD system has been re-examined in light of recent developments in the technology of MHD steam-bottoming plants. A new retrofit cycle configuration has been examined, which provides for a direct gas-gas coupling. With this arrangement, the MHD-topping plant can be decoupled so that the existing plant can be operated either with the MHD cycle or separately. When applied to Vermilion Station Boiler number 1, a coal-fired power plant presently in operation in Illinois, the retrofit concept produces substantial increases in overall-plant efficiency, total electrical output, and cost effectiveness.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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