An advanced IGCC power plant with an electric capacity of 350 MWe uses an entrained flow oxygen-blown gasifier with an efficiency of 0.82. The combined cycle thermal efficiency is 0.59, the gas turbine efficiency is 0.4, and the electric generator efficiency is 0.97. The gasifier operates on petcoke with LHV of 31 MJ/kg. The low NOx emission gas turbine combustor has no SF. Calculate (i) the overall efficiency of the IGCC power plant, (ii) the rate of heat release in the gas turbine combustor, (iii) the plant fuel consumption rate, and (iv) the power outputs of the gas turbine and steam turbine trains

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An advanced IGCC power plant with an electric capacity of 350 MWe uses
an entrained flow oxygen-blown gasifier with an efficiency of 0.82. The
combined cycle thermal efficiency is 0.59, the gas turbine efficiency is 0.4,
and the electric generator efficiency is 0.97. The gasifier operates on petcoke with LHV of 31 MJ/kg. The low NOx emission gas turbine combustor has no SF.

Calculate (i) the overall efficiency of the IGCC power plant, (ii) the rate of heat release in the gas turbine combustor, (iii) the plant fuel consumption rate, and (iv) the power outputs of the gas turbine and steam turbine trains. 

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