Objective
More than 10000 old (1962-1982 'peak-power') and newer (1982-1992 'combined-cycle') gas turbines can be upgraded by project proprieraty methods using only End-User's own standard machine shops. Expected benefits include increase in gas-turbine life-span and less pollution and fuel consumption.
METHOD 1 destroys combustors hot spots and provides fresh oxygen to fuel droplets for less pollution.
METHOD 2 can save 0,3% liquid-fuel consumption and reduce up to 90% emissions.
METHOD 3 increases engine life-span to provide significant industrial saving-especially in combined cycle electricity-generation. It is based on civilising a military technology developed by co-ordinator. Designed mainly to reduce thermal stresses, creep and oxidation ('burning') rates as well as hot-spot damages to turbine stator-vanes and turbine blades, it was first introduced and dem/val by co-ordinator for post-1989 jet engines of high-performance fighter aircraft.
Project aim is to provide the highest benefits by combining at least methods 1 and 3 for more rational uses of energy in gas-turbine-based electrical power generation, including the feasability to export the technology.
Expected socio-economic benefits are:1.Cleaner air and less damage to environment; 2.Efficient-rational use of energy; 3.Provision of a new advanced technical data-base for furthering legislation and clean air law enforcement; 4. Economic benefits that can be based on SME's and extant end-user machine shops for self upgrading of old and some newer gas turbines in combined-cycle STAG and CHP plants; 5.Industrial benefits which can be easily disseminated across the entire EU via SME's and the self-upgrading methodology advanced by this project. More specific results are outlines below.
1- GT life span increase
2- Co-operation, sharing, licensing and marketing of results in and outside the EU
3- By-products-upon-success :Fast growing markets can become export/licensing targets.
4- Project deliverables are based on measures of success first to be evaluated in Belgium, Israel and The Netherland. These measures include resulting levels of smoke, CO, CO2, HC, SO3 and NOx emissions, as well as TIT fields prior to and post upgrading .
5- Critical deliverables :Increases in engine life span are to be monitored by base vs upgraded TIT fields and by introducing these data into standard thermal-fatigue, bladecreep and oxidation rates empirical correlations for each sub-variant of Meth.3.
6- Similar devirables are to be evaluated by monitored emission levels in the upgraded GT-unit vs International Emission Standards, such as the state of California Emissions of Oxides from Stationary Gas Turbines Control Rule N°1134.
7- Other results are to be implemented only during DEMO-2 and DEMO-3 : These include wide-scale dissemination via EU legislation, professional publications, co-ordinator's video tapes and seminars in all EU states according to time-table set in consultations with the technical co-ordinator.
8- Expected results are also designed to be in line with a timely EU vis-a-vis US Competition.
By means of Methods 1 and 3 the combustors of 3 different types of gas turbines (GT) widely used in the EU and around the globe are to be upgraded in close collaboration with 3 selected EU Associated Contractors (AC) during 3 demonstrations (DEMO 1, 2 & 3). Each is to include 5 phases : 1.Design; 2.Manufacturing;
3.Assembly/erection/installation; 4.Commissioning and 5.monitoring/dissemination. Other outlines and issues are: 1- AC first operates its GT engine within a BASELINE test-run until repeatability is reasonable. AC and the GTC partners then decide on the upgrading method to be used.
2- AC may first use Method 2 with proper heat exchanger for fuel heating to reduce emissions and/or dismantles the combustors for their Method 2 or 3 upgrading and then re-installing them and re-operating the unit under the same Baseline conditions.
3- DEMO 1 is to be conducted in Belgium or the UK with an old GT such as the PWA-FT4, RR-AVON, RR-OLYMPUS or the GE frame-6GT.
4- GT-candidates for DEMO 2 & 3: The GT is rapidly becoming year-round center-player in efficient/clean power generation. Its past role as a stand-by unit limited for 'peak-power' generation has been dramatically expanded by its 365-days/year provision of the best technology to increase low past power-plant efficiencies by about 50%. 5- Since Method 3 becomes exceedingly operationally and economically important for upgrading such units, DEMO 2 & 3 are intended for AC-2 and AC-3 which operate CHP plants with stress on improved, competitive energy services to universities and hospitals.
6- Beyond DEMO 1 end all project partners and each AC help advance project dissemination goals via seminars, publications,video-tapes for INTERNET and multi-media electronic uses. They may also expand collaboration beyond the scope-definition of this project.
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32000 Haifa
Israel