Techno-economic investigation of solutions for decarbonizing the thermal management of the stand-still state of combined cycles

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 663, 2025 12^th International Gas Turbine Conference “Advancing Turbomachinery Innovations and Strategies for Net-Zero Pathways” (IGTC 2025)


Article Number		01002
Number of page(s)		10
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202566301002
Published online		13 November 2025

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