A study on the operation of a gas turbine unit using hydrogen as fuel

Abstract

The last decade has been driven by the impact of environmental challenges on the energy industry. Decarburization policy is the driver of the global energy transition. Hydrogen can be used as an alternative to natural gas, kerosene, and diesel fuel. A large-scale conversion of generating equipment to hydrogen fuel would significantly reduce carbon impact on the world because the product of hydrogen combustion is water. This paper focuses on the combustion of pure hydrogen in a GE 6FA power gas turbine. A mathematical model has been created in the AS GRET software package. During the simulation, the operation of a gas turbine unit in the load range from 40 to 77 MW was considered. As a result, the dependences of fuel consumption, enthalpy, and air consumption depending on the load were obtained. The value of the heat of the exhaust gases was also obtained.