An Overview of Combined Cycle Power Plant. An Overview of Combined Cycle Power Plant (on photo Magnolia Energy, 900MW CCPT) Abstract The Combined Cycle Power Plant or combined cycle gas turbine, a gas turbine generator generates electricity and waste heat is used to make steam to generate additional electricity via a steam turbine. The gas turbine is one of the most efficient one for the conversion of gas fuels to mechanical power or electricity. The use of distillate liquid fuels, usually diesel, is also common as alternate fuels. More recently, as simple cycle efficiencies have improved and as natural gas prices have fallen, gas turbines have been more widely adopted for base load power generation, especially in combined cycle mode, where waste heat is recovered in waste heat boilers, and the steam used to produce additional electricity.
This system is known as a Combined Cycle. Figure - Combined cycle power plant scheme By using combined cycle power plant we are getting 68% electricity. Mechanism Working principle of CCTG plant.