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Depending on the electric grid network these plants serve and are integrated with, the gas turbine design is specifically tailored for grid frequency (50/60 Hz). 2 Hz) at a given constant rotational speed – usually 3000 rpm for 50 Hz applications, and 3600 rpm for 60 Hz networks. With the common design criterion that the blade tip speed (circumferential velocity) should not exceed the sonic velocity (speed of sound) of the fluid medium around the blade tip, the maximum diameter is defined (and therefore the length of the blades).
P. Boyce, Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook, Elsevier Inc, Burlington, MA 01803, (2006). ISBN 0-88415-732-6. 11. eu, (August 2007). 12. A. DellaVilla, Updating gas-turbine reliability, availability; Combined Cycle Journal, Published by PSI Media Inc, Las Vegas, (1Q/2012). 13. A. DellaVilla, RAM statistics: can everyone be above the average? Combined Cycle Journal, Published by PSI Media Inc, Las Vegas, (2Q/2011). © Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2013 2 Overview of gas turbine types and applications P.
However, CHP systems are most popular in plants in the low MWthermal range (maximum up to about 100 MWthermal) for local/regional heating networks and for integrated solutions in industrial processes (paper mills, refineries, chemical industries, …), which require significant amounts of heat (in form of steam and/or hot water) for their operation. Only in extraordinary cases do such networks include large scale gas turbines even in the multiple hundred megawatt range (Power Engineering International, 2007; Brennstoff Wärme Kraft, 2012).