Comparison of the HTTT Reheat-Gas-Turbine Combined Cycle With the HTTT Nonreheat Gas-Turbine Combined Cycle

Abstract

High-temperature turbine technology (HTTT) when applied to the reheat-gas-turbine combined cycle (RHGT/CC) offers distinct advantages over the presently contemplated United States Department of Energy (DOE) HTTT simple-cycle gas-turbine combined cycle (SCGT/CC) being developed for gaseous fuel derived from coal. Specific improvements are: 1) higher combined-cycle efficiency, 2) higher specific output per unit of air flow, 3) less critical high-temperature nozzle-vane and rotating-blade surface area to be cooled, 4) less strategic high temperature metal material to be used, and 5) less overall cycle-cooling degradation allowing growth potential. New cooling techniques employing steam are required to accomplish these projections which necessitates advanced research and development and presently unavailable mathematical analytical approaches.