Investigations of the emission characteristics of a gas turbine combustor with water steam injection

Abstract

The article is devoted to investigation of the possibilities of creating highly efficient and competitive Ukrainian gas turbine engines (GTEs), which correspond to modern environmental requirements for new generation energy modules. One of the most important directions of solving this problem is considered, namely, the possibility of realizing a complex thermal circuit of a gas turbine unit (GTU) - the scheme "Aquarius" with the utilization of exhaust gases heat and the injection of ecological and energy water steam into the flowing part of a combustor. The possibilities of reducing emission of harmful components, in particular, of nitrogen oxides, are analyzed, while organizing the process of a 25 MW gas turbine combustor with the supply of water steam to the primary and secondary chamber’s zones. Three-dimensional calculations of the aerodynamic structure of chemically reacting flows in a gas turbine combustor were performed with the help of methods of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The results of theoretical investigations of gas turbine combustor’s emission characteristics at different ratios of the ecological and energy steam consumptions are presented, their rational values are revealed. The main results of the work can be used at power engineering enterprises for upgrading and modernizing existing and designing models of low-emission combustors of GTE.

Keywords

• Combustor
• Gas turbine engine
• Toxic component
• Nitrogen oxide