To attain the highest economic and energy-saving characteristics of gas turbine cogeneration plants, it is necessary to rationally determine capacities and numbers of gas turbines and auxiliary equipment in consideration of their operational strategies corresponding to seasonal and hourly variations in energy demands. Some optimization approaches based on the mixed-integer linear programing have been proposed to this design problem. However, equipment capacities have been treated as continuous variables, and correspondingly, performance characteristics and capital costs of equipment have been assumed to be continuous functions with respect to their capacities. This is because if equipment capacities are treated discretely, the number of integer variables increases drastically and the problem becomes too difficult to solve. As a result, the treatment of equipment capacities as continuous variables causes discrepancies between existing and optimized values of capacities and expresses the dependence of performance characteristics and capital costs on capacities with worse approximations. In this paper, an optimal design method is proposed in consideration of discreteness of equipment capacities. A formulation for keeping the number of integer variables as small as possible is presented to solve the optimal design problem easily. This method is applied to the design of a gas turbine cogeneration plant, and its validity and effectiveness are clarified.
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Optimal Design of Gas Turbine Cogeneration Plants in Consideration of Discreteness of Equipment Capabilities
Ryohei Yokoyama,
Ryohei Yokoyama
Associate Professor
Fellow ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: yokoyama@ese.me.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Osaka Prefecture University
, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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Koichi Ito
Koichi Ito
Professor
Fellow ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Osaka Prefecture University
, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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Ryohei Yokoyama
Associate Professor
Fellow ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Osaka Prefecture University
, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japane-mail: yokoyama@ese.me.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Koichi Ito
Professor
Fellow ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Osaka Prefecture University
, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, JapanJ. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Apr 2006, 128(2): 336-343 (8 pages)
Published Online: March 1, 2004
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October 1, 2003
Revised:
March 1, 2004
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Yokoyama, R., and Ito, K. (March 1, 2004). "Optimal Design of Gas Turbine Cogeneration Plants in Consideration of Discreteness of Equipment Capabilities." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. April 2006; 128(2): 336–343. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2131889
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