Selecting the design of a high-temperature air heater for integrated gasification combined cycle

Abstract

High temperature heat exchangers are needed in various energy technologies to increase their efficiency. The article is devoted to the optimization of the design of a high-temperature air heater used in the integrated gasification combined cycle plant, developed in Ural Federal University. In the air heater, air with a pressure of 2 MPa after the cycle compressor is heated by coal combustion to a temperature of 900°C before it is fed into the combustion chamber of a gas turbine. The air heater is developed as a pulverized coal fired boiler with air heating in tubular radiation-convection heating surfaces. The authors propose a new design of a high-temperature air heater, which allows reducing the cost of the expensive high-temperature part of the unit 1.8 times compared with the previous design. A computer simulation of the boiler section is carried out to verify the proposed design solutions. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.