course | Performance Calculations and Efficiency for power plant

Module (01) Types of Power Plants
 

• Gas Turbine Power Plants.
• Combined Cycle Power Plants.
• Cogeneration Plants.
• Comparison between Different Plants.
   

Module (02) Combined Cycle Plant Components (CCPP)

• Gas Turbine components.
• Heat recovery boiler
• Steam Turbine components and details
• Condenser 

Module (03) Establishing task dependencies

• Heat balance of a combined cycle.
• Case study.
• How to calculate the efficiency of a combined cycle plant.
• What are the operating factors that influence the efficiency?
• How would environmental conditions influence efficiency?
• Overall Plant Performance ASME PTC 46 – 201X.
• Dependence of overall CCPP efficiency on individual component performance and efficiency
• What is Heat Rate?
• Cost of Heat Rate Deviations
• Financial Loss of increased heat rate for specific power operating power plants.
• Technology impact on the Improvements of newly built plants compared to previously built plants. 

Module (04) Performance calculations of Gas Turbine Unit

• Different gas turbine cycles
• Determining ISO Power and ISO Heat Rate
• Correcting for Ambient Temperature, Altitude, Humidity, Inlet and Exhaust Pressure Losses, Mechanical Transmission Losses, and Turbine Deterioration.
• Part load heat rate
• Methods of Increasing Power Output
• Gas Turbine Inlet Air Cooling • Evaporative cooler
• Fogging system • Mechanical refrigeration system (direct type)
• Mechanical refrigeration system (indirect type)
• Mechanical refrigeration with ice storage
• Mechanical refrigeration system with chilled water storage
• Single-stage Lithium Bromide Absorption chiller
• Two-stage Lithium Bromide Absorption chiller
• Performance Evaluation of Different Inlet Air Cooling Systems:
• Capital Cost Comparisons of Inlet Cooling Systems
• Effect of Fouling on Compressor Performance 

Module (05) Performance calculations of HRSG
 

• Single, double, triple pressure HRSG
• Arrangement of coils and Evaporator pinch design.
• Energy balance of HRSG between gases and water
• Flue gases losses
• Blowdown losses
• Casing losses and thermography monitoring.
• Piping losses and steam leak losses.
• Impact of boiler efficiency on total plant efficiency.

Module (06) Performance of Steam Turbine
 

• Effect of increasing pressure on power output
• Effect of increasing steam temperature on power output
• Effect of increasing steam pressure & temperature on power output
• Effect of changing condenser exhaust pressure on power output
• Case study
• Effect of parameter deviation on heat rate.
• Fluid friction
• Leakage and new techniques to minimize leakage
• Moisture, Leaving, and Profile losses
• Blade path deterioration: steam turbine blade path Audit.
• Performance improvement from the polishing of turbine blading

Module (07) Performance of Steam Condenser

• Cooling water flow rate effect on Overall CCPP efficiency
• Cooling water temperature
• Fouling in tubes
• Condensate level problems and their effect on performance