Process description: The adsorption of water from methane is first required to purify the feed of methane into the

combustion chamber of the turbine. The nearly pure methane feed leaves the packed bed and sprayed into the turbine to undergo combustion. Air is compressed within the gas turbine and mixed with the inlet fuel methane a good level of excess air is required to keep the combustion temperature lower and to supply a good level of oxygen. This mixture is combusted in the combustion chamber resulting in a hot flue gas mixture. The massive temperature change causes the gas to expand; this drives the turbine which produces an initial source of power in the generator. The hot exhaust gas which leaves the turbine is undergoes heat recovery in a heat recovery steam generator where the hot flue gas transfers a large amount of heat to a passing water stream vaporising the water to superheated steam. The steam leaving the heat recovery unit is high quality steam at 150 Bar absolute, this steam is expanded in a turbine and a second wave of energy is generated. The two types of turbine combined are known as a combined heat process. The exhaust gas exiting the heat recovery unit is sent to a flu stack which is cleaned to and purified to an environmentally acceptable level.