Companies worldwide that in the 1980s and early 1990s had developed
open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) plants, which were seen as quick to develop in jurisdictions hungry for power, are now adding HRSGs and steam turbines to convert their stations to CCGT mode.
Currently, South Australia's peak loads are managed by
open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) plants.
Phase One -- an
open-cycle gas turbine generator -- has already been completed and is capable of producing up to 150 megawatts of electricity.
So of course this 'farm' will have to be backed up by reliable
open-cycle gas turbine (fossil fuel)-generated supplies - probably being forced to waste energy running in 'spinningreserve' mode.
Based on the agreement signed by Alsons Energy and Sagittarius Mines, the power firm will develop an
open-cycle gas turbine and coal-fired power station, to be located in the Kamanga Agro-Industrial Ecozone at Barangay (village) Kamanga in Maasim, Sarangani.
In the more usual
open-cycle gas turbine, the turbine exhaust would exit to the atmosphere.
High efficiency power plants that are increasingly supplanting older
open-cycle gas turbine based power generation, are helping reduce the consumption of valuable natural gas as a fuel resource in Oman's electricity sector, according to Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP).
In the PBMR unit, after helium gas leaves the turbine compressor, it passes through the nuclear reactor to be heated (as it would in the combustor of an
open-cycle gas turbine).