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COURSE CONTENT
GT PRO / GT MASTER / PDE / PEACE
DAY 1 of 2: GT PRO/ PDE/ PEACE
- Overview - When to use these programs
- GT PRO structure and input menus
- GT PRO output menus and graphics
- Quick starts with PDE (Plant Design Expert)
- Coupling with PEACE for cost estimation and design optimization
- Components: Gas turbine, HRSG, Steam Turbine, Cooling System
- HRSGs for process steam alone: determine steam production, unfired and fired
- Combined cycle cogeneration plants with non-condensing steam turbines
- Combined cycle power plants, with and without reheat
- Fuel heating schemes
- Integrating gas turbine rotor air cooling or steam cooling with the steam cycle
- Multiple runs: Macro and E-Link
- Defining user-defined fuels
- Specifying the user-defined gas turbine
- Replicating an existing design
- Further examples particularly relevant to course attendees
DAY 2 of 2: GT PRO/ GT MASTER
- Import GT PRO designs to GT MASTER
- Explore part-load operation
- Performance effects of ambient
- Variations in process and power demand
- Supplementary firing
- Specify boiler hardware data in model
- Control steam desuperheating
- Alter process and addition flows
- Control turbine inlet and extraction pressures
- Special HRSG features: Once-through HRSG and radiant boiler
- Use GT MASTER's Control Loop
- Multiple runs: Macro and E-Link
- GT MASTER and PEACE: Piping details
- Pump and circ water systems
- Further examples particularly relevant to course attendees
THERMOFLEX
DAY 1 of 2: THERMOFLEX
- Overview- When to use THERMOFLEX
- Flexibility: Freedom with responsibility
- Program structure
- Program results - graphics and text
- Classes of components and fluids
- Create system designs (DRAW SYSTEM): Configure by selecting and connecting icons; Import GT PRO designs
- Distinguish features of components with similar names
- Editing of component parameters (EDIT INPUTS) to achieve goals
- Logical flow and pressure hierarchies
- Conflicting flow and pressure specifications
- User methods for handling conflicts that cannot be automatically resolved
- Rubber components
- Use of Splitters, Mixers, and Valves
- Main design specifications for commonly-used components
DAY 2 of 2: THERMOFLEX (continued)
- Explore design and off-design modes
- Logical Headers (push or pull)
- Logical flow control components
- Fix a Flow and Fix a Pressure
- Macro and Control Loop features
- Links to Excel
- Use with E-Link
- Use links to make hybrid models, joining the quick and robust computations of the application-specific programs - GT PRO, GT MASTER and STEAM MASTER to the flexible THERMOFLEX
- Engineered (PEACE) components in THERMOFLEX
- HRSG and Steam Turbine Assemblies
- Defining shaft connections
- Defining energy accounting
- Heat adders - thermally linked to other components
- Special features of particular component models
STEAM PRO/ STEAM MASTER/ PEACE / RE-MASTER
Overview - When to use these programs
STEAM PRO
- Overall plant configuration
- Cooling system selection
- Main steam conditions
- Feedwater heater temperatures and connections
- PEACE inputs and results
- Steam turbine driven feedpump
- Steam turbine leakage streams
- Fuel specification
- Boiler thermodynamics and sizing
- Examples: Producing new designs, and replicating existing designs
STEAM MASTER
- Conversion of STEAM PRO design files to STEAM MASTER input files
- Overall plant and steam turbine controls
- Behavior of feedwater heaters in off-design conditions
- Integration with PEACE
- Use of STEAM MASTER Macro
- Use with E-Link
- Examples - especially models of existing plants
RE-MASTER
- Modes of repowering: An appreciation
- Hot windbox repowering
- Feedwater repowering
- Parallel repowering
- Complete replacement of original boiler with new HRSG
- Examples - studies with existing plants