The Use of Air Turbine Heat Recovery Units for the Mod-ernization of Gas Pumping Units with Gas Turbine Drive

One of the urgent tasks of further developing natural gas transportation systems is the need to increase fuel efficiency and to improve environmental performance of the gas turbine units (GTU) that are used to drive superchargers of gas pumping units. Outdated GTUs with low efficiency are being replaced by units of a new generation, including those of the regenerative cycle. However, this requires significant capital expenditures, thus, the possibilities of upgrading the existing units are also being investigated. A significant proportion of the energy generated by the gas combusted in driven GTUs is lost in the form of heat of the exhaust combustion products. These gases have a temperature not lower than 670 K. To utilize the heat of the exhaust combustion products, it is proposed to compliment the main GTU by an air turbine heat recovery unit (ATU) that is simple in design and inexpensive in production. This well-known idea has not yet been realized in practice, thus there are no recommendations on the use of a GTU-ATU as a drive for natural gas superchargers. It is shown that to ensure the possibility of upgrading drive gas turbines at a minimum cost, it is advisable to use an ATU that is kinematically independent of the GTU. The ATU’s power is used to cover the own needs of the compressor station and other purposes. The calculations show that under equal conditions, the combined GTU-ATU is inferior in efficiency to the GTU of the regenerative cycle. However, it provides a much smoother flow of the efficiency parameter depending on the operation mode, which is important for gas pumping units. The potential of using the ATU for the modernization of drive GTUs is estimated. It is noted that in addition to generating additional power, the use of ATU’s can decrease the flue gas temperature and the mass concentration of harmful emissions

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