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. GateCycles 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
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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 Optimization
Our 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
Macros
Macros 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 Services
GE 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,
EfficiencyMapand Plant Paybacksoftware
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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