Title: Energy and exergy analysis of a gas turbine power plant in Algeria

Authors: Fouad Khaldi; Belkacem Adouane

Addresses: Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Batna, Batna 05000, Algeria. ' Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Batna, Batna 05000, Algeria

Abstract: An exergy analysis of a twin ABB GT13E2 Gas Turbines (GTs) power plant (2 × 146.2 MW) is presented in this paper. This plant is running since 2004 at F|Krina in the northeastern part of Algeria. The analysis was performed by the flow-sheet programme, |Cycle-Tempo|. At off-design load (83%), the plant and its apparatus conserve nearly the same design load performances. However, the performance of the plant decreases under higher air temperatures. The combustor is the first loser of exergy; this trend increases with increasing air temperature. Preheating air has considerable positive impact on the plant efficiency.

Keywords: exergy analysis; gas turbines; power plants; thermodynamic simulation; Cycle-Tempo; energy analysis; Algeria; air temperature; preheating air; plant efficiency.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2011.043920

International Journal of Exergy, 2011 Vol.9 No.4, pp.399 - 413

Received: 22 Nov 2010
Accepted: 16 Jun 2011

Published online: 01 Dec 2011 *

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