Thermodynamic Parametric Analysis of Hydrogen Fueled Combustion Turbine Cycle for Power Generation

The role of energy is expected to become more significant in the coming future being so vital and important and with today’s level of fuel prices in context to the anticipated fossil fuel reserves, energy must be produced and utilized most efficiently. It is thus imperative to think of renewable energy using hydrogen as a fuel. Realising this, the Japanese government through its New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO) has created the World Energy Network (WE-NET) Program, a 28 years effort from 1993 to 2020 to achieve the first demonstration of a pilot plant (near term plant) in the 50-60 MW size based on the concept and technologies of hydrogen fueled combustion turbine yielding 64.9 percent plant efficiency. The full scale 500 MW (long term plant) demonstration plant using hydrogen fuel combustion turbine system will yield greater than 70.9 percent plant efficiency. In the present work, mathematical modelings have been formulated for predicting the performance of hydrogen-fueled combustion turbine cycles in this work, a thermodynamic parametric analysis of hydrogen fueled combustion turbine cycle involves two configuration namely Near term and Long term plants has been carried out.