Giovanni Labrini
Numerical simulation of the combustion process of blends of hydrogen and natural gas for power generation.
Rel. Simone Salvadori, Ezio Spessa, Mirko Baratta, Daniela Anna Misul. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Meccanica, 2022
Abstract
The tightening of international regulations in terms of climate-altering emissions is leading the energy production sector toward decarbonization and fuel flexibility for gas turbine technologies. Hydrogen, as a zero-carbon emission energy carrier, can play a primary role in the decarbonization process as it could also be exploited to store the excess of electricity produced by renewable energy sources whose availability and production rate are intrinsically fluctuating. Despite the advantageous properties, hydrogen combustion is challenging and its implementation in gas turbine applications is not straightforward. A premixed approach reduces the NOx formation due to lower combustion temperatures, but a significant risk of flashback is induced by the enhanced flame speed.
Furthermore, the use of premixed combustion is an option in case of design of a new gas turbine, but in the field of lifetime extension a non-premixed approach including hydrogen blending with more conventional fuels is reasonable given that most of the original designs adopt such technology
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