THM Range of Gas Turbines

Generator Drive Applications

 Axial / centrifugal compressor

The Gas Turbine/

Generator-Package
Air intake casing Air bleed valve

The modular package concept of the

THM gas turbine range enables each
gas turbine generator unit to be cus-
Variable-speed
tomized to the requirements of the electric starter
application.

The package design shown here re-

presents one possible variant.

Emergency
Lube oil filter lube oil pump

Junction boxes Main lube

oil pump 1

Instrument panel Main lube

oil pump 2

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 Exhaust casing

High-pressure turbine Epicyclic gear unit

Combustion Generator
chambers Power turbine Coupling (50Hz or 60Hz)

Generator Neutral point and

baseplate line-side cubicle

Turbine
baseframe

1 Gas Turbine / Generator Package

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 Power Generation

Due to their high reliability, THM gas
turbines are widely employed in power
generation and cogeneration
applications with millions of
accumulated operating hours.
For both island mode and peaking
operation, high starting reliability is an
essential prerequisite to ensure relia-
bility of supply.
2 THM 1203 turbine-generator set in the Congo

In pure power generation applications

without heat recovery, a distinction can
be made between the following
service applications:

• Continuous operation with the

generator feeding into a grid
network, for which the robust
trouble free nature of the THM
series is ideal.
• Island mode operation of a single
machine set, or of a power plant
consisting of several power trains
• supplying a local grid, without any
tie-in to a wide-area network.
Power supply systems used on off-
shore oil production platforms are
typical examples, where there is
high requirement for supply relia-
bility.
• Intermittent operation for:
1. balancing the peak load
requirements of a grid,
2. emergency cover of a supply
sector in the event that main
generation equipment fails,
3. compensation of irregular
fluctuations in load demand, i.e. to
satisfy power requirements for a
limited number of hours, e.g.
during loading operations.

3 Power plant in Tripura/India with three

THM 1304 turbine-generator sets

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Outdoor Installation

The skid option with a weatherproof

acoustic enclosure enables the THM
turbine-generator sets to be installed
outdoors without the need for
investment in a building.

4 Full-load test of a turbine-generator set

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 Heat Recovery /
Cogeneration
The temperature of the exhaust gases
leaving the THM gas turbine are at
approx. 500°C, assuming ISO
operation in open cycle.
With the THM 1304-11, approx.
22 MW (thermal) can be recovered
through heat exchange down to a
final stack temperature of 100°C. This
energy can then be utilized in various
processes.
5 THM steam production diagram
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Examples:
• Direct drying processes (e.g.
sewage sludge) using the hot
exhaust gases can be employed,
provided that the materials in
question suffer no damage.
Alternatively, indirect drying can be
used with an intermediate drying
medium (e.g. air).
• forms a combined cycle (CCGT)
Cogeneration processes where, in
addition to electric power
production, steam or hot water is
produced in a waste heat boiler.
The heat can be utilized in various
processes, e.g. paper production,
district heating etc.
• Steam generated in a waste heat
boiler can be used to drive a
condensing steam turbine, thereby
producing 4 – 5 MW of additional
electric energy. This configuration of
gas turbine, waste heat boiler,
steam turbine and auxiliary plant
units (condensation system etc.)
power plant. Based on the THM
1304-11 and a single-pressure
boiler without supplementary firing
capacity, Figure 5 shows, as an
example, the steam rate which can
be produced as a function of steam
pressure, with steam temperature
as the other selection parameter.
Similar diagrams are available for
other system configurations.
 Feedwater

• In addition to cogeneration, so- Flue gas

called "trigeneration" cycles are
also possible whereby, in addition
to electric power, heat and Steam
drum
refrigeration energy can be supplied
from the same system. Using this Circulating
Natural gas HEL pump
configuration, the steam generated
in the waste heat boiler can either
Air
be used for heating purposes or for Live steam
supplying an absorption refrigera-
tion plant. Combustion
chamber
For example, a trigeneration facility
can be used to operate the heating
system of a building complex in Compressor Turbine Generator

winter, and its air-conditioning

system in summer.
7 Gas turbine waste heat recovery boiler plant /
single-pressure system

6 THM 1304 turbine-generator set in a

French refinery

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