Overall process and instrumentation diagram.

College of Engineering Unit(s): 
Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering

Team: 
Miranda Bailey, Colby Jones and Jacob Young

Project Description: 

Over the next decade, wind and solar technologies are expected to grow. Unlike fuel-burning power plants, power production from wind and solar sources can not be easily changed to meet shifting consumer demands throughout the day. One solution to this problem is to convert store excess energy as hydrogen. Electrolysis is the process of converting water to hydrogen, and energy is stored for later use as a result of this reaction. When the hydrogen is converted back to water, the chemical energy stored in the bonds is released as heat. This can be done in either a fuel cell or through combustion of hydrogen. This project investigates the combustion of hydrogen with air in a combined cycle hydrogen gas turbine power plant. In this plant, hydrogen is combusted with air and the product is fed to a turbine, which converts the thermal energy to mechanical energy, producing electricity. After the first turbine, the combustion product still has a significant amount of energy, which is transferred to water using heat exchangers in a steam cycle. The product of the steam cycle is high pressure, superheated steam, which is fed through three additional turbines to produce more electricity.

Discussion of the team's hydrogen-fired turbine power plant design and simulation results.

Project Communication Piece(s): 
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