Modification of existing turboshaft engine in order to operate on synthetic gas

Abstract

Synthetic gas is nowadays the co-product of procceses such as waste gasification and processing biomass, coal and other potentional fuels. Although its composition depends on previous process, synthetic gas is generally mixture of hydrogen, carbon-monoxide and methane in different ratios. The idea to use gases from waste as a fuel for gas-turbine generator producing electric energy is very attractive but also challenging. In this paper is presented modification of an existing turbo-shaft engine in order to be capable to operate with synthetic gas. Together with problems such as low heating value of the gas, different stochiometric ratio of gas and air compared to kerosene/air combination and high hydrogen contents, the engineering task was to do it with minimum number of changes. Problem is solved by adjusting existing airblast atomizers and experimentally verified. © Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade.