Towards Gas Turbines Adapted for Net Zero Carbon Power Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 2387
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Energy Conversion; Energy Storage; Thermodynamics; Combustion; Gas Turbines
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As fossil fuel thermal power generation is progressively phased out, gas turbines emerge as the best thermal power generation technology capable of converting hydrogen to electricity at scale and with high efficiency and low emissions. Furthermore, the versatility of the technology allows its combination with renewable energy such as in the case of solar and biomass fired gas turbines and its hybridization with fuel cells to achieve even higher conversion efficiencies. Additionally, a novel research and development community has emerged in the last decade that works on the adaptation of gas turbines with pressure gain combustion. A successful application of this technology will increase conversion efficiency and also enable the decarbonization of the sector. All of these efforts are active topics of research currently vital to facilitate their adoption, efforts which have been globally recognized through a strong push to address industrial emissions, announcements for ambitious hydrogen energy strategies, and for the digitalization of energy systems.
In this context, the current Special Edition aims to provide an overview of the activities of the research and development community in the fields of novel approaches in gas turbines. The focus lies on activities directed toward the adaptation of the technology for its application in a decarbonized society. Research articles mainly on (but not strictly limited to) the following topics are welcome:
- Hydrogen in gas turbine applications;
- Concentrated solar power gas turbines;
- Pressure gain combustion in gas turbine applications;
- Fuel cell–gas turbine hybrids;
- Biomass fired gas turbines;
- Alternative applications of the Joule–Brayton cycle.
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Dr. Panagiotis Stathopoulos
Prof. Dr. Myles Bohon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogen gas turbines
- SCP gas turbines
- pressure gain combustion
- fuel cell hybrid systems
- biomass fired gas turbines
- pumped heat energy storage systems
- high-temperature heat pumps
