Making the Difference, H Class Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants Respond to Flexible Generation
(Room Lehar 2)
19 Jun 18
2:00 PM
-
3:30 PM
Tracks:
Track 2: Repositioning Conventional Power Generation
Speaker(s):
Siegfried Trippold, Senior Product Manager, GE; Michal Bialkowski, Senior Program Manager, general Electric ( Switzerland) GmbH; Laurent Cornu, 9HA Product Manager, GE Power; Christian Vandervort, Senior Product Manager, 9HA.02, Gas Power Systems, GE Power
Following the global trend of flexibility, efficiency and clean power requirements for Gas Turbines and Combine Cycle Power Plants for the Power Generation Industry in Europe have been becoming extremely important and is seeing unprecedented challenges. Power producers are seeking highly efficient, reliable, and operationally flexible solutions that provide them long-term profitability in future markets. GE’s power plant solutions with advanced air-cooled H-class gas turbines technologies (7HA and 9HA) are engineered to achieve greater than 63% net combined cycle efficiency while delivering operational flexibility through low emission-compliant turndown and high ramp rates. Besides H-class Technology and common combine cycle scenario’s, future plants must include a combination on renewable scenario’s in the electricity mix, usage of solar power (panels), battery storage capabilities etc. but also low and park mode scenario’s with no impacts on emissions to grant flexible and cleanest power generation. GE enables H-class CCPP for energy storage provisions as well as digital technology elements. By offering high output, efficiency, and operational flexibility, the H-class platform provides one of the most cost-effective conversions of fuel to electricity. This is also valid for transient operation and part loads where load flexibility and auxiliary load cost needs to be leveraged. The field experience of Bouchain CCPP demonstrates that the H-class gas turbine employs its flexibility to stabilize the grid and hereby maximize the fit in the electricity mix. In addition the need of optimized footprint scenario’s (MW/m2) and rapid construction cycle times/time to market (MW/month) supported by state of the art modular power plant design helps to respond to today overall environment. This presentation will highlight the latest developments in GE’s advanced high efficiency H-class platform and gives an overview of GE’s state of the art plant solutions.