Title: Baseload reliability in a combustion turbine
Abstract: The future uses for combined-cycle combustion turbines to provide utility baseloads depend on whether technological advances can produce better performance efficiency at lower costs. Although basically the same as jet aircraft engines, the difference in conditions (such as atmospheric contaminants, sulfidation, and mechanical stress) makes reliability less certain in a utility application. New emphasis on fuel economy, capital cost reduction, and coal-burning baseload-size units suggest the need for improving the combined-cycle concept. Data compiled by the Electric Power Research Institute on performance reliability is broken down by component to provide cost and trade-off information that will be useful in combustion turbine redesign programs.
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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