Subject : Power Plant Engineering

Topic: Chap 4- Combined Cycles

Difficulty: Medium

Natural gas, furnace gas, produce gas, coal gas and solid fuels distillate oils and residual oils paraffins used in gas turbine and methane, ethane, propane, octane. Important properties to be considered while selecting the fuel for gas turbine are as follows:

1) Volatility 2) Combustion products, 3) Energy contents, 4) Lubricating properties, 5) Availability.