Today’s and future electric power generation is characterized by a large diversification using all kind of sources, including renewables resulting in noncoherent fluctuations of power supply and power usage. In this context, gas turbines offer a high operational flexibility and a good turn down ratio. In order to guide the design and down select promising solutions for improving partload emissions, a new combustion model based on the assumption of two separate timescales for the fast premixed flame stabilization and the slow post flame burnout zone is developed within the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code ANSYS CFX. This model enables the prediction of CO emissions generally limiting the turn down ratio of gas turbines equipped with modern low $NOx$ combustion systems. The model is explained and validated at lab scale conditions. Finally, the application of the model for a full scale analysis of a gas turbine combustion system is demonstrated.

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