Exergoeconomic study of reheat combined cycle configurations using steam and ammonia-water mixture for bottoming cycle parameters

Abstract

The use of combined cycle power plants though had led the pathway to maximize the fuel en-ergy utilization but the part-load operation of these plants is of concern. In this work, an exer-goeconomic comparison of 11 different reheat combined cycle arrangements hasbeen carried out under their part-load operations for varying bottoming cycle parametersnamely steam-bleedfraction, deaerator pressure,separator temperature, absorber pressure, and condenser pressure.The results depict that the absorber has the highest exergy destruction with second law efficiency of 23.55% at thepart load of 25% for the combined cycle power plant having high pressure drum with steam as working fluid and low pressure drum with ammonia-wa-ter as working fluid. The comparison also shows the highest cost of electricity production as 0.1243USD/kWh for the combined cycle power plant having ammonia-water as working fluid in bottoming cycle and operating at part load of 25%. While the minimum price of electricity produced is 0.05USD/kWh at 25% part load for CCPP having double pressure HRVG’s at condenser pressure of 0.09 bar.

Keywords

• Exergy
• Economics
• Part Load Operations
• Combined Cycle
• Reheat Aqua Ammonia Turbine

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