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GE Energy Services Optimization Software GateCycle ™ Power Plant Design and Simulation Software Overview GateCycle predicts design and off-design performance of combined-cycles, fossil boiler plants, cogeneration systems, combined heat- and-power plants, nuclear plants, advanced gas turbine cycles and many other energy systems in one package. GateCycle’s component-by- component approach, together with its advanced macro capabilities, enables modeling of virtually any type of system. Benefits • Specifically developed to help you simulate power plants of any configuration. • Analyzes combined-cycle and fossil boiler power plants at all operating points. Features • The flexibility of GateCycle is what makes it different from other heat balance software. • GateCycle's built-in off-design correlations enable you to quickly and accurately predict component and system performance at various operating points. Applications GateCycle is used for quick assessments, detailed engineering, design, retrofitting, repowering and acceptance testing applications. Unsurpassed flexibility – the hallmark of GateCycle Building GateCycle models has never been easier or faster GE Energy Services …simulation solutions
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GE Energy ServicesOptimization Software
GateCycle™
Power Plant Design and Simulation Software
OverviewGateCycle predicts design and off-design performance of combined-cycles, fossil boiler plants, cogeneration systems, combined heat-and-power plants, nuclear plants, advanced gas turbine cycles and many other energy systems in one package. GateCycle’s component-by-component approach, together with its advanced macro capabilities, enables modeling of virtually any type of system.
Benefits•Specifically developed to help you simulate power plants of any configuration.
•Analyzes combined-cycle and fossil boiler power plants at all operating points.
Features•The flexibility of GateCycle is what makes it different from other heat balance software.
•GateCycle's built-in off-design correlations enable you to quickly and accurately predict component and system performance at various operating points.
ApplicationsGateCycle is used for quick assessments, detailed engineering, design, retrofitting, repowering and acceptance testing applications.
Unsurpassed flexibility – the hallmark of GateCycle
Building GateCycle models has never been easier or fasterGE Energy Services
…simulation solutions
CycleLink™CycleLink is a powerful utility based on Microsoft Excel™ that allows users full access to model data within GateCycle. At the simplest level, you can use this utility to read any GateCycle data into a spread-sheet. With the data, you can customize your output or perform additional analysis on the output (e.g. financial analysis). At a higher level, CycleLink can be used for running case studies of cycles. You may change input data and run your models –all from within Excel. If you combine CycleLink with the macro functions of Excel, you can make sophisticated custom interfaces to the cycle models.
With CycleLink, an engineer can make customized interfaces to his or her own models. This allows the engineer to deliver full working Cycle models to end-users who do not have to know how to run GateCycle. All they need to know is how to use a simple spreadsheet! Model OptimizationOur current version of GateCycle now has a flexible user defined optimization feature. This feature allows the user to select the GateCycle variables that define almost any objective function from an easy to use graphical user interface. Possible applications for the optimization feature include:
• The optimization of design point cycle parameters • The optimization of off design cycle parameters• Validation of measured plant data
Customize the CycleLink interface to any GateCycle model
MacrosMacros are a flexible and powerful set of functions that enable you to set up arbitrary calculations and control relationships among GateCycle system and equipment icon inputs and calculated results.
About GE Energy ServicesGE Energy Services-Optimization Software provides software products that focus on increasing the efficiency of power systems at the design and operating stages through the GateCycle™, EfficiencyMap™ and Plant Payback™ software solutions. In October 2000, GE acquired Enter Software, Inc., which is now part of GE Energy Services. The Optimization Software group employs over 50 engineers and computer programmers, mostly with advanced technical degrees. Offices are located in Davis and Menlo Park, CA, Brentwood, TN and Graz, Austria with resellers worldwide.
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