Performance and Emissions of a Micro-Gas Turbine Fueled with LPG/Producer Gas in a Dual Fuel Mode

Abstract:

In this paper, a tubular combustor along with a single shaft micro-gas turbine system was experimentally tested with a producer gas fuels. In order to carry out the experiments, a low cost single shaft micro-gas turbine was developed. The system was characterized first with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and then tested with two producer gas fuels in a dual fuel mode. The tests were examined in terms of LPG fuel replacement, turbine entrance temperature, efficiency and emission characteristics at different LPG fuel replacement ratios. The study showed a maximum LPG replacement of 42% and 56% on energy basis for producer gas1 and producer gas2, respectively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 695)
• Pages: 482-486
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.695.482
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Hussain Sadig*, Shaharin Anwar Sulaiman, Mior A. Said, Suzana Yusup
• Keywords: Emission, Gas Turbine, Performance, Producer Gas, Syngas

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