Ensuring High-Availability in Gas Turbine Power Systems

Type of service:  Operability Studies

Inprocess client:  Power Plants

Year:  2020

Country:  Everywhere

Gas turbine power plants have to achieve high reliability and maximum availability in order to be able to meet the dispatch requirements of electric grids at short notice. The power generation systems are high-availability assets, generally above 90%. This high availability requirement means that the possibility of a single unit trip occurring, let alone a cascade of trips, should be minimized as much as possible.

Dynamic simulation analyses, based on rigorous process simulation software, generate very useful results which can be sued in order to support the verification of the equipment design. Thus, dynamic simulation becomes a tool that, even from the design phase, will ensure an increase in the reliability of the process.