Gas Turbine with Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG)

A gas turbine with an HRSG uses the turbine’s hot exhaust stream to produce steam rather than releasing that energy directly to the atmosphere. The steam can support process heating or drive a steam turbine in a combined-cycle arrangement. Evaluating the full system requires attention to exhaust conditions, heat-transfer assumptions, steam requirements, operating loads, and control interactions.

HRSG simulation lets engineers compare how gas turbine exhaust energy is recovered under defined operating conditions before equipment is built or modified. It can support studies of thermal performance, fuel use, component matching, part-load behavior, and control response. Reviewing these relationships digitally helps teams identify promising configurations, document assumptions, and prioritize detailed engineering work with greater confidence.

Yes. SimTurbo supports steady-state performance and cycle analysis, including operating-point evaluation, component matching, engine-efficiency calculations, pressure-ratio studies, fuel-consumption analysis, and ambient-condition effects. Off-design analysis is useful when assessing how a gas turbine system may behave away from its intended design point, such as during different load demands or changing inlet conditions.

Yes. SimTurbo supports simulation of recuperated, regenerated, reheated, intercooled, and afterburning gas turbine configurations. These studies help compare advanced cycle options for thermal-performance improvement, waste-heat recovery, fuel-efficiency optimization, and emissions research. The component-based approach allows engineers to examine how design choices influence the overall cycle rather than evaluating components in isolation.

SimTurbo supports gas turbine control design and validation through PID controller development, fuel scheduling, start and shutdown logic, gain scheduling, actuator and sensor modeling, engine protection functions, and closed-loop analysis. Engineers can use transient simulations to examine response, stability, and fault scenarios. This makes it useful for evaluating control strategies alongside thermodynamic system behavior.

Transient system operation simulation can address startup, shutdown, throttle movements, acceleration, deceleration, load changes, emergency conditions, actuator dynamics, sensor response, environmental variations, and fault conditions. These scenarios help users understand dynamic behavior beyond steady-state results. They can also support stability testing, response optimization, control validation, and investigation of events that are difficult or costly to reproduce physically.

Yes. SimTurbo is designed to support data export for post-processing in tools such as Excel, MATLAB/Simulink, or Python. This helps engineering teams integrate simulation outputs into reports, custom calculations, optimization workflows, control-development tasks, and broader design reviews. Exportable results also make it easier to compare assumptions, track design iterations, and communicate findings with project stakeholders.

Yes. SimTurbo offers academic simulation solutions for universities, engineering colleges, laboratories, and research programs, along with discounted student licensing and flexible classroom, laboratory, research, and campus-wide options. These programs are intended to support thermodynamics instruction, propulsion courses, capstone projects, faculty research, and practical simulation-based learning using gas turbine modeling tools.