Combined cycle power plants are systems with very high thermodynamic efficiency. Off-design plant behaviour prediction is very important to allow for high efficiency regulation of systems.

The aim of this paper is to study heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) performance, varying inlet gas temperature and mass flow rate. One, two and three pressure level heat recovery boilers are considered. A HRSG simulation program based on heat transfer and thermodynamic fundamental laws is carried out.

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