Open AccessWorld’s Largest Single-Shaft Gas Turbine Installation
Author(s) -
R. C. Gaskins,
J.M.G.F. Stevens
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
volume 1b: general
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1115/70-gt-124
Subject(s) - steam turbine , combined cycle , boiler feedwater , feedwater heater , turbine , steam electric power station , boiler (water heating) , engineering , power station , gas turbines , electricity generation , heat recovery steam generator , automotive engineering , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , environmental science , nuclear engineering , power (physics) , waste management , physics , quantum mechanics
A unique 63,000-kw gas and steam turbine generator has been successfully integrated into a power plant to provide base load electric power and heat feedwater for existing boilers. The unit combined the world’s largest single-shaft gas turbine prototype with innovations of supercharging and a 20,000-kw steam turbine helper on the same shaft. The system, now a part of a Dow Chemical Power Plant in Freeport, Texas, had some minor problems mainly with the prototype turbine and has been in successful base load service since January, 1969.
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