5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ISTANBUL 2019, İstanbul, Turkey, 17 - 19 December 2019, pp.1-5
Gas turbines are known to have a number of fascinating features, mainly:
fast starting and loading, simplicity,
lightness, high flexibility and reliability, low capital cost, better
environmental performance, high power density etc. For this reason, the use of gas turbines in the
meeting peak loads, cogeneration systems and electricity generation is
increased very rapidly in the
recent years. In this study, the thermo-economic analysis of a simple Brayton
cycle model is studied, and electricity
production cost for open Brayton cycle is examined under different compressor
pressure ratio and gas turbine inlet temperature. In the analyses, the
parameters such as isentropic efficiencies, ambient temperature, load factor, fuel
price, escalation rate etc. are also taken into account. Finally, developed model is solved and the
optimum conditions are found for electricity production cost under different
gas turbine inlet temperature.