EXTENDED FUEL FLEXIBILITY TESTING OF SIEMENS INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINES: A NOVEL APPROACH

摘要

Opportunity gaseous fuels are of great interest for small and medium sized gas turbines. The variety of gaseous fuels that Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB (SIT) is requested to make judgments on is continuously expanding. From such requests follows an increasing need for testing new fuels.The SIT novel approach for fuel flexibility testing, EBIT, has been to combine the single burner rig testing with a full scale engine test to give a cost effective and flexible solution. The combination of the two approaches is accomplished by using a separate feed of testing fuel to one or more burners in a standard gas turbine installation where the other burners use standard fuel from standard fuel system for engine operation. The separate feed of testing fuel can be operated as a slave to engine governor heat demand, but can also be controlled independently. This paper describes how EBIT has been implemented and tested. Combustion monitoring techniques and measurements to check behavior and predictions for full scale engine tests are presented. Results from testing with a blended natural gas with more than 50% of heat input from pentane, C_5H_(12), in a SGT-700 engine shows that the EBIT concept is possible and powerful.The SIT 3rd generation DLE burner proves to be very fuel flexible and tolerant to high levels of pentane in the fuel. Less than 20% increase in NOx emissions can be expected when using pentane rich fuels. The burner is used in the SGT-800 47MW engine and the SGT-700 31MW engine.