GateCycle™ Version 5.4 is here!
GateCycle™ software accurately predicts the effects of:
- changing fuel types
- ambient variations
- guide-vane settings
- multiple-pressure HRSG
- sliding pressureoperation
- component fouling
- part-load operation
- pressure losses
- parallel HRSG sections
- steam injection
- fossil boiler operations
- hardware modifications
- cooling tower operations
GateCycle™ software also equips the user with CycleLink™ - a powerful utility for running GateCycle™ software models from within Microsoft® Excel™. GateCycle™ software includes a reference library of over 50 plant models, and libraries of data for standard gas turbines and routines for detailed analysis of new, advanced gas turbine designs.
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GateCycle™ software is used by hundreds of power plant architects and engineers throughout the world. They have chosen GateCycle™ software for its ability to model complex modern plants accurately, quickly and affordably. GE Enter Software stands behind GateCycle™ software with superior technical support, and frequent upgrades. Join the hundreds of users worldwide who use GateCycle™ software for simulating accurate and flexible power and steam plant heat balances.
General Information
GateCycle™ software has been specifically developed to help you design and analyze combined-cycle and fossil boiler power plants. The flexibility of GateCycle™ software is what makes it different from other heat balance software. It offers design options which simply don抰 exist in other packages. GateCycle™software's built-in off-design correlations enable you to quickly and accurately predict component and system performance at various operating points. GateCycle™ software is the premiere application for power plant design, and analysis of combined-cycle and cogeneration systems.
Overview
GateCycle™ software predicts design and off-design performance of combined-cycles, fossil boiler plants, cogeneration systems, combined heat-and-power plants, advanced gas turbine cycles and many other energy systems in one package.
GateCycle™ software is used for quick assessments, detailed engineering, design, retrofitting, repowering and acceptance testing applications. GateCycle™ software's component-by-component approach, together with its advanced macro capabilities, enables modeling of virtually any type of system.
GateCycle™ software is a very powerful tool for both the gas and steam side of power plant design and analysis. You can model a gas turbine by selecting one from the library of gas turbines, or you can model it on a component by component basis. By "building" your turbine with compressor spools, combustor and expander spools, you can easily model inter-cooling, reheat, compressed air storage, and even cascading gas turbines. As for the steam side, we have included all of the component icons you need to accurately model HRSG's with multiple-pressure levels, parallel sections, pressure losses etc. You can even create plant models that have several different gas turbines, and multiple HRSG's even if each one has a different configurations.
Building GateCycle™ Models is Easy!
Building GateCycle™ software models in its intuitive Windows interface has never been easier or faster. You can start by editing one of the 50 models in the model library. Or you can start from scratch. Select components from the unit list and drop them onto your model diagram. Drag the connections from one component to the next, and you are then ready to enter data.
Entering Component Data
The color coded guided data entry shows exactly which data needs to be entered. Data fields in red need to be input, data fields in blue have been changed by the user and green data fields show which data has been automatically defaulted. Each input can be entered in any unit of measurement: SI, British, or even a unit set made up by the user. An on-line steam table helps you with your modeling decisions.
The user has the option of choosing which method to use for determining the performance of each component. In this example, the user chose Steam Outlet Temperature, and set that value at 1000 degrees F. He/she could have chosen Surface Area, Effectiveness, Approach Temperature, Steam Outlet Enthalpy, Degrees of Superheat, or Bypass.