Development of a Thermal Approach to Optimize the Waste Heat Utilisation From an Existing Gas Turbine Station Without Heat Recovery System

The present work deals with a numerical simulation of a flow in finned tube banks arranged behind a gas turbine. Three models of dual-pressure tube systems are developed and analyzed in order to predict the static system performances by optimizing the utilization of the exhaust gas from an existing gas turbine without heat recovery system. For more precise modeling, the theoretical analysis of finned tube banks systems is based on the non-linear conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy. Simulations are accomplished to prove the effectiveness of the present work in performance prediction of the dual-pressure tube systems. The obtained results clearly show the necessity to take into account all relevant physical phenomena in the simulation of flows in and across finned tube banks installed behind a gas turbine. The results also reveal the different operating behavior of the developed models considering combined effects of the exhaust gas parameters and the tube geometries.