A hydrogen combustion turbine system has been proposed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD. which is the Closed Circuit Cooled Topping Recuperation Cycle (CCCTR cycle) and is part of a Japanese government sponsored program WE-NET (“World Energy Network”). This cycle is composed of closed Brayton and Rankine cycles. The efficiency of this cycle is more than 60% HHV (Higher Heat Value) with a power capacity of 500MW. This cycle was selected as the most suitable for hydrogen combustion turbine used for industrial power plant by the Japanese government. A closed circuit steam cooling system has been proposed to cool vanes and blades of the high temperature turbine (HIT) which has inlet temperature of 1700°C and inlet pressure of 45bar. This paper presents the comparisons of the thermal efficiency and the feasibility of components between the CCCTR cycle and other cycles.

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The characteristics and experiences of the gas turbine interactive design system, TDSYS, are described. The design of high performance advanced gas turbines requires complex trade-off analyses for optimization and hence it is necessary to use a highly efficient and accurate computerised integrated design system to complete the laborious design jobs in a short time. TDSYS is an interactive design system which makes extensive use of computer graphics and enables the designers to complete a gas turbine blade design systematically in a very short time. TDSYS has been developed and continuously improved over a period of ten years. The system has been used for the complete and retrofit design of many gas turbines including Mitsubishi MW701 and AGTJ-100A which is a high efficiency reheat gas turbine now being developed under a Japanese national project. In this paper, typical design samples of high temperature turbines are also presented.