ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the benefits of two gas turbine installations in Greek refineries utilizing the GT10 and GT35 units. It examines how two refineries discovered savings within the processing plants by utilizing the waste heat energy from their gas turbines to increase refinery profitability. The GT35 and GT10 units can utilize multiple fuels of changing quality and calorific value, including the waste gases derived from the refining process, for the gas turbine combustion process. Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) supplied the industrial gas turbines for cogeneration application in two refineries outside of Athens, Greece. Furthermore, ABB Field Service personnel have observed, on occasions, that implosion doors of the air inlet plenums were found to be opened by operators during the plant operation. Refinery requirements for electric power and heat are being met with cogeneration systems consisting of one or more gas turbine-generators, Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) which utilize the gas turbine waste heat.
