Standard Training

Course content

Below is a detailed overview of the standard training course content.

GT PRO® / GT MASTER® / PDE™ / PEACE® - Two Days

DAY 1 of 2: GT PRO/ GT MASTER

  • Overview - When to use these programs

  • GT PRO structure and input menus

  • GT PRO output menus and graphics

  • Quick starts with PDE (Plant Design Expert)

  • Coupling with PEACE for cost estimation and design optimization

  • Components: Gas turbine, HRSG, Steam Turbine, Cooling System

  • HRSGs for process steam alone: determine steam production, unfired and fired

  • Combined cycle cogeneration plants with non-condensing steam turbines

  • Combined cycle power plants, with and without reheat

  • Fuel heating schemes

  • Integrating gas turbine rotor air cooling or steam cooling with the steam cycle

  • Multiple runs: MACROTM and ELINKTM

  • Defining user-defined fuels

  • Specifying the user-defined gas turbine

  • Replicating an existing design

  • Further examples particularly relevant to course attendees

DAY 2 of 2: GT PRO/ GT MASTER

  • Import GT PRO designs to GT MASTER

  • Explore part-load operation

  • Performance effects of ambient

  • Variations in process and power demand

  • Supplementary firing

  • Specify boiler hardware data in model

  • Control steam desuperheating

  • Alter process and addition flows

  • Control turbine inlet and extraction pressures

  • Special HRSG features: Once-through HRSG and radiant boiler

  • Use GT MASTER's Control Loop

  • Multiple runs: MACRO and ELINK

  • GT MASTER and PEACE: Piping details

  • Pump and circ water systems

  • Further examples particularly relevant to course attendees

THERMOFLEX® / PEACE® - Two Days

DAY 1 of 2: THERMOFLEX

  • Overview- When to use THERMOFLEX

  • Flexibility: Freedom with responsibility

  • Program structure

  • Program results - graphics and text

  • Classes of components and fluids

  • Create system designs (DRAW SYSTEM): Configure by selecting and connecting icons; Import GT PRO designs

  • Distinguish features of components with similar names

  • Editing of component parameters (EDIT INPUTS) to achieve goals

  • Logical flow and pressure hierarchies

  • Conflicting flow and pressure specifications

  • User methods for handling conflicts that cannot be automatically resolved

  • Rubber components

  • Use of Splitters, Mixers, and Valves

  • Main design specifications for commonly-used components

DAY 2 of 2: THERMOFLEX (continued)

  • Explore design and off-design modes

  • Logical Headers (push or pull)

  • Logical flow control components

  • Fix a Flow and Fix a Pressure

  • MACRO and Control Loop features

  • Links to Excel

  • Use with ELINK

  • Use links to make hybrid models, joining the quick and robust computations of the dedicated expert programs - GT PRO, GT MASTER and STEAM MASTER to the flexible THERMOFLEX

  • Engineered (PEACE) components in THERMOFLEX

  • HRSG and Steam Turbine Assemblies

  • Defining shaft connections

  • Defining energy accounting

  • Heat adders - thermally linked to other components

  • Special features of particular component models

STEAM PRO® / STEAM MASTER® / PEACE® / RE-MASTER™ - One Day

  • Overview - When to use these programs

STEAM PRO

  • Overall plant configuration

  • Cooling system selection

  • Main steam conditions

  • Feedwater heater temperatures and connections

  • PEACE inputs and results

  • Steam turbine driven feedpump

  • Steam turbine leakage streams

  • Fuel specification

  • Boiler thermodynamics and sizing

  • Examples: Producing new designs, and replicating existing designs

STEAM MASTER

  • Conversion of STEAM PRO design files to STEAM MASTER input files

  • Overall plant and steam turbine controls

  • Behavior of feedwater heaters in off-design conditions

  • Integration with PEACE

  • Use of STEAM MASTER MACRO

  • Use with ELINK

  • Examples - especially models of existing plants

RE-MASTER

  • Modes of repowering: An appreciation

  • Hot windbox repowering

  • Feedwater repowering

  • Parallel repowering

  • Complete replacement of original boiler with new HRSG

  • Examples - studies with existing plant