GE Energy - GateCycle Software

GateCycle Software

Predicts Performance

GateCycle software predicts design and off-design performance of combined cycle plants, fossil boiler plants, cogeneration systems, combined heat-and-power plants, advanced gas turbine cycles and many other energy systems. You can use GateCycle software for quick assessments, detailed engineering, design, retrofitting, repowering and acceptance testing. Its component-by-component approach and advanced macro capabilities let you model virtually any type of system.

Features & Benefits

GateCycle software accurately predicts the effects of:

Changing fuel types
Ambient variations
Guide-vane settings
Multiple-pressure hrsg
Sliding pressure operation
Component fouling
Part-load operation

Pressure losses
Parallel hrsg sections
Steam injection
Fossil boiler operations
Hardware modifications
Cooling tower operations

GateCycle software is a powerful tool for both the gas and steam sides of power plant design and analysis. To model a gas turbine, you can select from the library of gas turbines or "build" your turbine component by component. By building your turbine with compressor, combustor and expander spools, you can easily model inter-cooling, reheat, compressed air storage and even cascading gas turbines. For the steam side, we include all of the component icons you need to model HRSGs accurately with multiple pressure levels, parallel sections and pressure losses. You can create plant models with several gas turbines and HRSGs with different configurations.

The CycleLink utility, included with GateCycle software, allows you to run GateCycle software analyses from within the Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet application.

What's New in GateCycle 6.0 (230KB PDF)
Learn more about the CycleLink utility

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