Closed-cycle gas turbines : operating experience and future potential

Content: About the author --
Contents --
Introduction --
The special characteristics of closed cycle gas turbines --
The realized installations --
The AK36 test installation, 1939 --
Coventry, 1949 --
Clydebank, 1950 --
Clydebank, 1951 --
Paris, 1952 --
Dundee, 1954 --
TUCO 52, 1955 --
Ravensburg, 1956 --
Toyotomi, 1957 --
Altnabreac, 1959 --
Rothes, 1960 --
Oberhausen 1, 1960 --
Coburg, 1961 --
Kashira, 1961 --
Nippon Kokan, 1961 --
IN-10 ship propulsion turbine, 1961 --
ML-1 nuclear plant, 1962 --
La Fleur, helium turbine, 1962 --
Haus Aden, 1963 --
Phoenix, helium turbine, 1966 --
Gelsenkirchen, 1967 --
Vienna, 1972 --
Oberhausen II, helium turbine, 1974 --
HHV helium test system, 1981 --
The main components --
The turbo set --
The air heater --
Recuperators --
Cycle coolers --
Arrangement of the main components --
Thermodynamic characteristics of the closed cycle --
Effect of the pressure level on size --
Effect of the pressure level on efficiency --
Effect of the pressure level on the heat exchanger --
Control and operational performance --
Part load performance --
Transient performance --
Thermodynamic performance --
Closed-cycle gas turbines in heating power plants --
The theory of cogeneration with closed cycle gas turbines --
Practical processes --
Studies performed --
Helium and carbon dioxide turbines for a fast breeder --
The integrated version --
The indirect version with a secondary carbon dioxide cycle --
The HHT project --
a high-temperature reactor with a high powered helium turbine --
The reference plant --
Cycle data of the reference plant --
Arrangement of the cycle components --
The design of the turbo machinery in the reference installation --
General conditions --
Description of the turbo set design --
Single-loop system with inter cooled compressor --
An HHT plant in a combined-cycle configuration --
Helium turbines for the use of solar energy --
Sensitivity analysis --
Part load performance --
Control system --
Nitrogen turbines for re gasifying liquid natural gas --
Semi-closed cycle gas turbines --
Closed cycle gas turbine process with steam injection --
Outlook --
Bibliography --
Table I: Closed cycle gas turbines which have been built --
Table II: Design data for the 3 x 350 MW helium turbines --
Table III: Main data for the 2 x 500 MW carbon dioxide turbo set --
Table IV: Cycle data for the solar plant --
Table V: Turbo machine dimensions for the solar plant --
Table Vl: Variable and constant parameters for the solar plant.