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Standard Training Course Content

   DAY 1 of 2: GT PRO/ GT MASTER

•  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^TM and ELINK^TM
•  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 ELINK
•  GT MASTER and PEACE: Piping details
•  Pump and circ water systems
•  Further examples particularly relevant to course attendees

    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 ELINK
•  Use links to make hybrid models, joining the quick and robust computations of the dedicated expert 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

•  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 ELINK
•  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 plant