Increasing the Efficiency of Turbine Inlet Air Cooling in Climatic Conditions of China through Rational Designing—Part 1: A Case Study for Subtropical Climate: General Approaches and Criteria
Author:
Radchenko Mykola1ORCID, Yang Zongming2ORCID, Pavlenko Anatoliy3ORCID, Radchenko Andrii1, Radchenko Roman1, Koshlak Hanna3ORCID, Bao Guozhi2
Affiliation:
1. Mechanical Engineering Institute, Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding, Heroes of Ukraine Avenue 9, 54025 Mykolayiv, Ukraine 2. School of Energy and Power, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, No.2 Mengxi Road, Zhenjiang 212003, China 3. Department of Building Physics and Renewable Energy, Kielce University of Technology, Aleja Tysiąclecia Państwa Polskiego 7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland
Abstract
The enhancement of gas turbine (GT) efficiency through inlet air cooling, known as TIAC, in chillers using the heat of exhaust gas is one of the most attractive tendencies in energetics, particularly in thermal engineering. In reality, any combustion engine with cyclic air cooling using waste heat recovery chillers might be considered as a power plant with in-cycle trigeneration focused on enhancing a basic engine efficiency, which results in additional power output or fuel savings, reducing carbon emissions in all cases. The higher the fuel efficiency of the engine, the more efficient its functioning as a source of emissions. The sustainable operation of a GT at stabilized low intake air temperature is impossible without using rational design to determine the cooling capacity of the chiller and TIAC system as a whole to match current duties without overestimation. The most widespread absorption lithium-bromide chillers (ACh) are unable to reduce the GT intake air temperature below 15 °C in a simple cycle because the temperature of their chilled water is approximately 7 °C. Deeper cooling air would be possible by applying a boiling refrigerant as a coolant in ejector chiller (ECh) as the cheapest and simplest in design. However, the coefficients of performance (COP) of EChs are considerably lower than those of AChs: about 0.3 compared to 0.7 of AChs. Therefore, EChs are applied for subsequent cooling of air to less than 15 °C, whereas the efficient ACh is used for ambient air precooling to 15 °C. The application of an absorption–ejector chiller (AECh) enables deeper inlet air cooling and greater effects accordingly. However, the peculiarities of the subtropical climate, characterized by high temperature and humidity and thermal loads, require extended analyses to reveal the character of thermal load and to modify the methodology of designing TIAC systems. The advanced design methodology that can reveal and thereby forecast the peculiarities of the TIAC system’s thermal loading was developed to match those peculiarities and gain maximum effect without oversizing.
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
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