Patent ID: 7866160

Claim:
A process for the production of electric power or cogeneration of electric and thermal power by operating a gas turbine plant, comprising a compressor, a combustion chamber and an expander, the process comprising the steps of: providing a supply of a hydrocarbon fuel, providing a supply of water, mixing at least a part of the fuel supply with the water supply to obtain a mixture, pre-heating the mixture, combusting a supply of combustible material, different from the hydrocarbon fuel supply, and using the heat produced by the combustion to heat up the mixture without direct contact between the mixture and the combustion gases of the combustion, in order to provoke methane-steam reforming reactions to take place in the mixture, thereby obtaining an enriched fuel, feeding the enriched fuel to the combustion chamber of the gas turbine plant, using a part of the exhaust gases of the gas turbine plant, as comburant air for the combustion of combustible material, using the combustion gases of the combustion of combustible material for pre-heating said exhaust gases, using the combustion gases of the combustion of combustible material for heating the water supply.