COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Combined Cycle Plant Modelling. It covers the combined cycle power plants (CCPPs), thermodynamic cycles in CCPPs and key components of CCPP; the performance parameters and efficiency metrics, plant layout and piping design basics and plant modelling tools; the gas turbine modelling, fuel system modelling, and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) modelling, steam system modelling and auxiliary systems modelling; and the integration of GT and HRSG models covering heat transfer coupling, mass and energy balance check, boundary conditions and control links and effect of GT part-load on HRSG; 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the steam turbine modelling, condenser and deaerator modelling and balance of plant (BOP) integration; the plant-wide control strategies, energy and exergy analysis and dynamic modelling fundamentals; the load change and grid response, model calibration and validation and heat integration and optimization; the environmental performance, emissions and NOx and CO2 modelling; the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) modeling, water and air usage impacts and compliance with regulations; the fuel cost sensitivity, revenue from power sales, O&M cost modeling and payback and NPV of upgrades; and the concept of digital twin for CCPP, integration with real-time sensors and predictive analytics for maintenance.