Experimental Study on Fuel-Switching of Dual-Fuel Gas Turbine Combustor

  • Lin Feng
  • , Yang Qiang*
  • , Liu Xiao
  • , L. I. Ming-jia
  • , Ran Jun-hui
  • , Li Ya-jun
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

6 Scopus citations

Abstract

To research the fuel-switching rules for gas turbine dual-fuel combustor, the effects of fuel change rate, fuel compensation rate, permissible fluctuation limit of outlet temperature, and fuel matching on the fuel-switching performance were studied experimentally by using a real dual-fuel gas turbine combustor. The experimental results show that increasing fuel change rate can reduce fuel-switching time, but the influence of fuel viscosity and evaporative atomization combustion hysteresis leads to the increase of outlet temperature amplitude fluctuation. The fuel compensation rate corresponds to the optimal solution for this combustion chamber; when the fuel change rate decreases, the optimal fuel compensation coefficient will be increase. Meanwhile, by increasing the allowable fluctuation range of outlet temperature and reducing the difference of calorific value of natural gas and diesel, the fuel-switching time can be effectively reduced, and the fuel-switching stability can be improved.

Original languageEnglish
Article number796220
JournalFrontiers in Energy Research
Volume9
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Feb 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • combustion chamber
  • dual-fuel
  • experimental
  • fuel switch
  • gas turbine

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Experimental Study on Fuel-Switching of Dual-Fuel Gas Turbine Combustor'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this