Combined-Cycle Gas Turbines
Power plants that combine gas turbines and steam cycles to improve fuel efficiency and operational flexibility.
Core metadata
- ID: combined_cycle_gas_turbines
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1961 (exact)
- Region: Korneuburg, Austria; later global power systems
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Electrical Grid (Early Distribution) (electrical_grid_early_distribution)
- Steam Turbine Power Generation (steam_turbine_power_generation)
Dependents
- None.
Fields
Field lanes
- Energy Systems & Grid: Generation
Node sources
- A Short History of the Evolving Uses of Natural Gas (Power Engineering, 2015, generic_overview) • Supports: node, maturity
- How Gas Turbine Power Plants Work (U.S. Department of Energy, 2013, official_agency) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 77%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 1
- textbook: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steam Turbine Power Generation (steam_turbine_power_generation) | required | 86% | textbook | A combined-cycle gas-turbine plant couples a gas-turbine topping cycle to a steam-turbine bottoming cycle. |
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| Electrical Grid (Early Distribution) (electrical_grid_early_distribution) | commercial_or_scaling_dependency | 68% | expert_inference | Grid infrastructure is not the thermodynamic prerequisite, but it is the commercial deployment context for utility-scale combined-cycle generation. |
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