Performance
Combined-cycle power plant - Functioning, operation, example

This paragraph deals with the problem of contractual acceptance of combined-cycle power plants. Contracts include guarantees that must be verified when the plant is commissioned. These may be of very different kinds:

• performance guarantee (power, specific consumption) ;

• guarantee on atmospheric emissions (NO _x , CO, dust);

• environmental noise guarantee ;

• flow, temperature and pressure of steam produced in the case of cogeneration plants.

Together, these parameters will constitute the plant's reference values, which will always...