Gas turbine system

• US 6,530,207 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2001
• Issued: 03/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Engineering Corp. (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Akira, Oguchi, Haruo, Tobo, Masayuki, Yasui, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim; Ted
• Application Number:
  US09/940,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20020029557A1
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 60/779,39.091,39.281,737,39.182 431/22
• US Class Current: 60/39.091
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 9/28 Regulating systems responsive to plant or ambient parameters, e.g. temperature, pressure, rotor speed F02C9/30 - F02C9/38, F02C9/44 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2270/082 with as little NOx as possible
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 20/16 Combined cycle power plant [CCPP], or combined cycle gas turbine [CCGT]

Abstract

A gas turbine system comprises an alarm signal calculation circuit, a shutdown calculation circuit and a flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit. The alarm signal calculation circuit, the shutdown calculation circuit and the flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit are integrated in a combustion monitoring device for monitoring combustion condition of combustion gas in a gas turbine-combustor.

Claims

1. A gas turbine system which comprises a compressor, a gas turbine-combustor, a gas turbine and a generator, which are operatively connected in series, a combustion monitoring device for detecting NOx concentration of an exhaust gas to be exhausted from the gas turbine so as to monitor combustion condition of the combustion gas in the gas turbine-combustor, and a gas turbine controller operatively connected to the combustion monitoring device and provided with a NOx value predictor,

said combustion monitoring device comprising:

an alarm signal calculation circuit for operating an alarm signal based on the NOx concentration detected from the exhaust gas at a time when flashback of the combustion gas in the gas turbine-combustor occurs to reach a premixed combustion zone;

a shutdown calculation circuit for operating a shutdown command when said flashback grows into a prescribed scale; and

a flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit for compensating signal delay of the NOx concentration detected from the exhaust gas in accordance with a predicted NOx concentration value signal from the NOx value predictor.

2. A gas turbine system according to claim 1, wherein said alarm signal calculation circuit comprises an arithmetic circuit for comparing a real NOx concentration value signal detected from the exhaust gas with the predicted NOx concentration value from the NOx value predictor so as to make a calculation, a comparator for performing a current conduction at a time when an operation signal from the arithmetic circuit exceeds a predetermined set value, and an AND circuit for operating the alarm signal when the operation signal from the comparator coincides with an operation signal from the flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit.

3. A gas turbine system according to claim 1, wherein said shutdown calculation circuit comprises an arithmetic circuit for comparing a real NOx concentration value signal detected from the exhaust gas with the predicted NOx concentration value from the NOx value predictor so as to make a calculation, a comparator branching off from an output side of the arithmetic circuit for making a signal at a time when an operation signal from the arithmetic circuit exceeds a predetermined set value, and an AND circuit for operating the shutdown command at a time when the operation signal from the comparator coincides with an operation signal from the flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit.

4. A gas turbine system according to claim 1, wherein said flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit comprises a differentiator for making a calculation in response to a fuel gas valve control command from the gas turbine controller, a comparator for making a signal at a time when an operation signal from the differentiator exceeds a predetermined set value, and a timer for holding an operation signal from the comparator by a predetermined period of time.

5. A gas turbine system according to claim 1, wherein both the alarm signal from the alarm signal calculation circuit and the shutdown command signal from the shutdown calculation circuit are generated during a prescribed loaded operation.

6. A gas turbine system according to claim 1, wherein said gas turbine controller is provided with an NH3 injection control system.

7. A gas turbine system which comprises a compressor, a gas turbine-combustor, a gas turbine and a generator, which are operatively connected in series, a combustion monitoring device for detecting NOx concentration of an exhaust gas to be exhausted from the gas turbine so as to monitor combustion condition of combustion gas in the gas turbine-combustor, and a gas turbine controller operatively connected to the combustion monitoring device,

said combustion monitoring device comprising:

an alarm signal calculation circuit for operating an alarm signal based on the NOx concentration detected from the exhaust gas at a time when flashback of the combustion gas in the gas turbine-combustor occurs to reach a premixed combustion zone;

a shutdown calculation circuit for operating a shutdown command at a time when said flashback grows into a prescribed scale; and

a delay prevention calculation circuit for calculating NOx concentrations of a plurality of previous periods of all previous periods of a current NOx concentration detected from the exhaust gas so as to compensate signal delay of the current NOx concentration.

8. A gas turbine system according to claim 7, wherein said alarm signal calculation circuit comprises an arithmetic circuit for comparing the current NOx concentration value signal detected from the NOx concentrations of the previous periods calculated by the delay prevention calculation circuit to calculate a range of variation of a real NOx concentration, and a comparator for making a signal to send the alarm signal at a time when a calculated range of variation of the real NOx concentration exceeds a predetermined set value.

9. A gas turbine system according to claim 7, wherein said delay prevention calculation circuit is branched off from an output side of an input of the alarm signal calculation circuit and is connected to the calculation element of the alarm signal calculation circuit.

10. A gas turbine system according to claim 7, wherein said delay prevention calculation circuit includes a plurality of delay units for calculating NOx concentrations of a plurality of previous periods of all the previous periods of a current NOx concentration detected from the exhaust gas.

11. A gas turbine system according to claim 7, wherein both the alarm signal from the alarm signal calculation circuit and the shutdown command signal from the shutdown calculation circuit are generated during a prescribed loaded operation.

12. A gas turbine system according to claim 7, wherein said gas turbine controller is provided with an NH3 injection control system.

13. A gas turbine system which comprises a compressor, a gas turbine-combustor, a gas turbine and a generator which are operatively connected in series, a heat recovery steam generator operatively connected to the gas turbine, a combustion monitoring device for detecting NOx concentration of an exhaust gas to be exhausted from the gas turbine so as to monitor combustion condition of combustion gas in the gas turbine-combustor, and a gas turbine controller operatively connected to the combustion monitoring device and provided with a NOx value predictor,

said combustion monitoring device comprising:

an alarm signal calculation circuit having a NOx sensor disposed on an upstream side of a catalyst disposed to the heat recovery steam generator for detecting the NOx concentration of the exhaust gas, said alarm signal calculation circuit operating an alarm signal based on the NOx concentration detected by said NOx sensor at a time when flashback of the combustion gas in the gas turbine-combustor occurs to reach a premixed combustion zone;

a shutdown calculation circuit for operating a shutdown command at a time when said flashback grows into a prescribed scale; and

a flashback-error signal prevention calculation circuit for compensating signal delay of the NOx concentration detected by said NOx sensor in accordance with a predicted NOx concentration value signal from the NOx value predictor.