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Latest Technologies for Thermal Power Plant Systems Best Available Technologies (BATs) for Realization of Thermal Power Plant Systems with Higher Efficiency HAYASHI Masataka Toshiba's Approach to Improvement of Efficiency and Environmental Performance of Thermal Power Plants MOCHIDA Naotaka Thermal power generation is playing a key role in energy solutions by supplying large amounts of electric power in response to rising demand in the global energy market. In view of the changes that have taken place in the social environment in recent years, there is a strong need for thermal power generation with higher economic efficiency, more flexible operability, and higher reliability. To fulfill these diverse high-level requirements, Toshiba is continuing its efforts to develop technologies for improved efficiency and environmental performance and to deliver a broad range of systems and services, including a combined-cycle power generation system achieving the world's top-level gross efficiency of 62% (lower heat value basis), an advanced ultra-supercritical (A-USC) coal-fired power plant operating under the world's best steam condition, and a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) facility with reduced lower energy consumption. State-of-the-Art Technologies for High-Efficiency Combined-Cycle Power Generation Systems HATTORI Yuta / HYOMORI Katsuhiro Combined-cycle power generation is attracting attention as the cleanest form of thermal power generation with high thermal efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Toshiba signed a memorandum of understanding with General Electric Company (GE) to form a global strategic alliance, under which the two companies will jointly develop combined-cycle power generation systems, in January 2013. We have embarked on this collaborative relationship to expand the global share of combined-cycle power generation by focusing on a high-efficiency combined-cycle power generation system integrating both GE's most advanced gas turbine technologies and Toshiba's latest high-efficiency steam turbine generators. As our first implementation of technical collaboration, we are developing power generating facilities for the Nishi-Nagoya Thermal Power Station Group No. 7 of Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., which will achieve the world's top-level gross efficiency of 62% (lower heat value basis) utilizing GE's latest 7F-7 series gas turbine. Life Extension Technologies for Gas Turbine Hot Parts Contributing to Reduction of Running Costs and Environmental Burden YOSHIDA Kohei / SAKAI Yoshiaki / SAITO Daizo With the diversification of power supplies in recent years, the number of combined-cycle power generation systems equipped with a gas turbine has been increasing due to the market demand for improvement of both energy efficiency and economic efficiency and the need for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. As hot parts including combustion liners, buckets, and nozzles located in the hot gas flow path of a gas turbine are susceptible to various types of damage, it is necessary to constantly repair or replace them. Therefore, appropriate life extension technologies to allow gas turbine hot parts to remain in service for as long as possible are essential for the reduction of running costs and the environmental burden. In response to these requirements, Toshiba has been developing life extension technologies for gas turbine hot parts and applying these technologies to actual products. Approaches toward Realization of High-Efficiency Steam Turbines for Thermal Power Plants IMAI Kenichi / TAKAHASHI Takeo Thermal power generation systems, with their capability to respond flexibly to fluctuations in power demand, are crucial for the steady supply of electric power. In Japan, there has been a conspicuous increase in demand for thermal power generation since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. With this as a background, improvement of the thermal efficiency of these power systems is an important issue from the viewpoint of securing low-carbon energy supplies. Toshiba has been developing a variety of new technologies to realize high-efficiency steam turbines for thermal power plants through the reduction of internal losses and improvement of steam conditions, and has been applying these technologies to actual steam turbines. We are steadily reducing internal losses in steam turbines by employing state-of-the-art computational analyses and elucidating the actual conditions of such turbines using a steam turbine development facility. We are also developing a 700°C-class advanced ultra-supercritical (A-USC) steam turbine system aimed at achieving significantly higher efficiency than conventional systems. Application of Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies to Thermal Power Plants EGAMI Norihide / SUZUKI Kensuke / IWASA Kiyohiko Accompanying the ongoing expansion of thermal power plants, attention is being focused on the reduction of their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by CO2 capture and storage (CCS). Toshiba is focusing on the development of CO2 capture technologies toward the realization of large-scale CCS. Based on our accumulation of development experience in this field, we are committed to delivering solutions that can apply CCS to both existing and newly constructed thermal power plants. We have conducted studies on the application of CCS to a newly constructed ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired thermal power plant in Bulgaria and an existing coal-fired thermal power plant in Taiwan. These results have been shared with electric utilities for their review and are making a useful contribution to their consideration of CCS application options for their power plants. We are putting forward concrete proposals to power utilities around the world for the realization of large-scale CCS applying our proprietary CO2 capture technologies. High-Efficiency Technologies for Turbine Generators of Combined-Cycle Thermal Power Plants OSHIMA Naohisa / IMAI Takehiko / UEDA Takashi Accompanying the increase in demand for combined-cycle thermal power plants, there is a growing need for higher efficiency indirectly hydrogen-cooled turbine generators with an intermediate capacity in the 300 MVA class. With the aim of realizing such turbine generators, Toshiba has developed an optimization design process that can automatically minimize the size of generator appropriate to the required efficiency. We have also developed a technology to improve cooling efficiency applying fluid analysis, a technology to reduce bearing friction loss by the use of lower loss elliptical bearings, and a technology to reduce stray load loss applying three-dimensional magnetic field analysis. As a result, a newly developed turbine generator applying these technologies has achieved approximately 0.2 % higher efficiency compared with conventional turbine generators. TOSMAP-DSTM/LX Next-Generation Controller for Thermal Power Plants to Achieve Efficient Operation and Low Environmental Burden ISHIKAWA Tetsuro / TANI Akinori / NITTA Yoshiyuki Demand is still growing for the construction of thermal power plants throughout the world centering on the Asian region. From the viewpoint of global environmental issues, however, it is necessary to further improve the operation of thermal power plants in order to achieve greater efficiency of their energy utilization and reduction of their environmental burden such as carbon dioxide emissions. To fulfill these requirements in the global market, Toshiba has developed the TOSMAP-DSTM/LX next-generation controller for thermal power plants, which realizes lower cost through the use of common computer technologies in combination with our proprietary technologies. Complex control theories can be easily incorporated into TOSMAP-DSTM/LX to improve the overall efficiency of the thermal power plant, due to the expandability of its control application software. Furthermore, TOSMAP-DSTM/LX is compatible with multiple field network interfaces, making it possible to accomplish both integrated control and monitoring and maintenance of the entire thermal power plant down to individual field components and devices. Virtual Engineering Environment and Hardwareless Simulation System to Improve Operational Efficiency of Thermal Power Plants MARUYAMA Masashi / SUDO Akiyoshi / OHTAKI Yuki Enhancement of the operational efficiency of thermal power plants has become increasingly important since the Great East Japan Earthquake. As a consequence, it has become necessary to reduce production lead times and site installation periods at the time of equipment renewal such as supervisory monitoring and control system replacement. Toshiba has developed an innovative production environment that encompasses each of the development processes from design and manufacturing to testing of equipment for thermal power plants, including supervisory monitoring and control systems, applying virtualization technologies. This production environment consists of both a virtual engineering environment that facilitates the streamlining of design processes, and a simulation system that realizes hardwareless tests. We have applied this environment to a supervisory monitoring and control system and confirmed that it achieves reductions in the production lead time and site installation period and contributes to the improvement of plant operational efficiency. Innovative Thermal Power Generation System Applying Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycle TAKAHASHI Takeo Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from thermal power plants are one of the primary causes of global warming. Demand has therefore been increasing for innovative technologies to reduce CO2 emissions as a countermeasure against global warming from the medium- and long-term perspectives. To meet this demand in the global market, Toshiba has been engaged in the development of an environmentally conscious thermal power generation system applying a supercritical CO2 cycle in cooperation with three U.S. companies: NET Power, LLC; Chicago Bridge & Iron Company; and Exelon Corporation. The new system burns a mixture of fossil fuel and oxygen combined with CO2 to produce a working fluid, mainly consisting of high-temperature and high-pressure CO2 and water vapor, which is used to drive the turbine generator, and separates and collects CO2 without the need for any carbon capture system. Toshiba has been assigned the development of key equipment, including a high-temperature and high-pressure turbine and a combustor, for this thermal power generation system aimed at realizing a 250 MW-class commercial plant. |