Development of technologies to increase efficiency and reliability of combined cycle power plant with double-pressure heat recovery steam generator

Abstract To increase the efficiency of a combined cycle power plant, it was suggested in a double-pressure heat recovery steam generator to carry out a reheat of water steam that had been spent in a high pressure cylinder of a steam turbine. The researchers introduce a mathematical algorithm and calculation methodology of the waste-heat boiler. It is proved that after re-superheat of water vapour in a double-circuit waste-heat boiler after the high-pressure superheater (with vapour already used in the high-pressure cylinder of a condensing steam turbine), a CHP-plant efficiency and reliability increase. Calculations for the combined cycle gas turbine unit PGU-450 were performed. It is shown that when the reheater is installed in the recovery steam generator, its efficiency increases by 2.15%. At the same time the efficiency of CCGT for power generation is increased by 3.36%, the degree of dry water steam used in the turbine is increased by 0.082. Consequently, the specific consumption of conventional fuel for electric power generation is reduced by 6.1%. Re-superheating of the total flow of water vapour allows to increase CGP-450 steam-gas unit efficiency by increasing the parameters of the steam entering the low-pressure cylinder of the steam turbine.