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Operation and control of compact offshore combined cycles for power generation

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  • Montañés, Rubén M.
  • Zotică, Cristina
  • Reyes-Lúa, Adriana

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Gas turbines are the main means for generating power in offshore installations. To increase energy efficiency, and thus reduce CO2 emissions, a steam bottoming cycle can be added to produce additional power by recovering surplus heat from the gas turbine exhaust. Due to space constraints, this solution is not widespread for offshore power generation. To enable deployment, the system must be compact and be able to provide varying power demands. In this paper, we analyze the operation and control problem for such compact combined cycles, consisting of two gas turbines and one steam bottoming cycle. We analyze the steady-state performance of the combined cycle with respect to efficiency and CO2 emissions for two control strategies for coordinating the power setpoint of the two gas turbines. Equal load allocation of the gas turbines showed a higher thermal efficiency and lower emissions compared to keeping one gas turbine close to nominal and letting the second one handle load variations. The main controlled variables for the steam bottoming cycle are the superheated steam pressure and temperature. We implement decentralized control strategies based on standard PID-controllers and nonlinear feedforward. Due to reduced throttle losses, sliding pressure shows higher efficiency and lower CO2 emissions compared to keeping a constant steam pressure, which conversely provides a better temperature dynamic response and may be necessary with highly varying power demand.

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  • Montañés, Rubén M. & Zotică, Cristina & Reyes-Lúa, Adriana, 2024. "Operation and control of compact offshore combined cycles for power generation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 290(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:290:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224000860
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.130315
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