Fuel Flexibilty
MT250 Fuel Sources include:
Renewable Fuels
Associated Gases/Oil & Gas Recovery
Pipeline Natural Gas/Combined Heat & Power (CHP)
The Flex Turbine™ MT250 can operate efficiently on a broad range of gaseous fuels. The versatility of the turbine’s fuel combustion technology allows us to offer turbine models that cleanly and efficiently consume fuels within a broad spectrum of caloric values, including those with low energy content that is difficult for other technologies to accept.
For example, our newest 250SV model will run with very low caloric value fuels such as methane/inert gas mixtures with as little as 30% methane by volume.
Renewable Fuel Sources include:
• Landfills
• Waste water treatment plants
• Food processing facilities
• Breweries
• Agricultural waste handling facilities
• Biomass energy plants
Renewable Fuels
Acceptable fuel sources can span many different kinds of processes. For example, the methane gas produced from anaerobic digestion can be produced by landfills, solids reduction processes at waste water treatment plants, waste reduction digesters in food processing plants, and digesters using waste from agricultural operations.
Processes that create synthetic gases from biomass feedstock often produce a fuel-quality gas that can be used by the turbine. Processes such as slow pyrolysis can produce output mixtures that are typically composed of combustible gases such as hydrocarbons and hydrogen along with inert gases.
Oil/Gas Recovery
Acceptable hydrocarbon fuels can result from many operations along with the oil/gas recovery stream. “Raw” gases associated with upstream recovery operations can often be conditioned for direct use with a turbine. Hydrocarbon constituents with carbon number above methane can be accepted as long as sufficient dewpoint suppression can be maintained. Overhead vapors from downstream processing with significant ethane and propane content represent good opportunity fuel gases.
Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
Medical facilities, universities, bio-tech laboratories, industrial processes, heating and drying applications
The table below shows the diverse range of gaseous fuel types supported by our turbine systems.
a Wobbe Index Lower Heating Value (LHV), dry basis, at 14.7 psi (101 kPa) and 59°F (15°C)
b Please contact us for more information about the 250SV
c Includes natural gas
