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Performance Calculations and Efficiency of Power Plants

In order to improve the performance of a thermal power plant, it is necessary to be able to calculate the efficiency

and to monitor the performance. The efficient utilization of fuel in Electric Power Production and desalination plants is

the main target of this course. Only by monitoring the performance we can determine whether it is cost effective to

continue operating the plant or alterations of operating conditions or maintenance is necessary. In addition, to

improve heat rate, different plant losses must be identified and understood and innovative methods to decrease

these losses taken. This course is devoted to study methods of calculations and illustrating international codes used

for this purpose.

This course provides detailed description of the all performance testing methods for all thermal power plant

equipment including boilers, turbines, condensers, pumps, fans, deaerators, and feedwater heaters. The methodology,

and code requirements for the performance tests for all thermal power plant equipment will be covered thoroughly in

this seminar. All the processes, operational and maintenance activities, capital projects, technical options, potential

initiatives and incentives to implement upgrades/repairs for increasing the power plant equipment efficiency will also

be covered in details.

After completing this Course, Participants will be

able to:

Illustrate how efficiency of CCPP can be calculated

Learn what cycle parameters affect efficiency

Illustrate the importance of Plant heat rate

Calculation of Cost Due to Heat Rate Deviations

Learn methods for improving gas turbine heat

rate

What to consider for improving HRSG perfor-

mance

What to consider for improving Steam Turbine

performance

Quantified Benefits of Implementing

Recommendations

Identify where thermal losses are occurring

Determine if problems are due to equipment or

operational issues

This course is for:

Experienced Power Plant Personnel who

are knowledgeable in power plant

components / systems.

Operations Engineers, Performance

Engineers, Researchers, Planners, and

Projects Engineers those are working in

The Power / Desalination Industry and

Energy Auditors.

Course Overview:

Course Objectives: Who Should Attend?

The Presentation, Supplied Documents, and

Workshop Exercises of the course are in

English. However, based on the trainees’

desires, use of Bilingual (English and Arabic)

for Oral Explanation is Available.

Course Language:

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Module (01) Types of Power Plants

1.1 Gas Turbine Power Plants.

1.2 Combined Cycle Power Plants Components

1.2.1 Gas Turbine components.

1.2.2 Heat recovery boiler

1.2.3 Steam Turbine components and details

1.2.4 Condenser

1.3 Cogeneration Plants.

1.4 Comparison between Different Plants.

Module (02)

2.1 Establishing tasks dependencies

2.2 Heat balance of a combined cycle.

2.3 How to calculate the efficiency of combined cycle plant.

2.4 The operating factors that influence the efficiency.

2.5 How would environmental condition influence efficiency.

2.6 Overall Plant Performance ASME PTC 46 – 201X.

2.7 Dependence of overall CCPP efficiency on individual

component performance and efficiency

2.8 What is Heat Rate?

2.9 Cost of Heat Rate Deviations

2.10 Financial Loss of increased heat rate for specific power

operating power plants.

2.11 Technology impact on Improvements of newly built

plants compared to previously built plants.

Module (03) Performance calculations of Gas Turbine Unit

3.1 Different gas turbine cycles

3.2 Determining ISO Power and ISO Heat Rate

3.3 Correcting for Ambient Temperature, Altitude, Humidity,

Inlet and Exhaust Pressure Losses, Mechanical Transmission

Losses and Turbine Deterioration.

3.4 Methods of Increasing Power Output

3.5 Gas Turbine Inlet Air Cooling

3.5.1 Evaporative cooler & Fogging system

3.5.2 Mechanical refrigeration system (direct type)

3.5.3 Mechanical refrigeration system (indirect type)

3.5.4 Mechanical refrigeration with ice storage

3.5.5 Mechanical refrigeration system with chilled

water storage

3.5.6 Single stage Lithium Bromide Absorption chiller

3.5.7 Two stage Lithium Bromide Absorption chiller

3.6 Performance Evaluation of Different Inlet Air Cooling 4.8

Capital Cost Comparisons of Inlet Cooling Systems

3.7 Effect of Fouling on compressor Performance

Module (04) Performance Calculations of HRSG

4.1 Single, double, triple pressure HRSG

4.2 Arrangement of coils and Evaporator pinch design.

4.3 Energy balance of HRSG between gases and water

4.4 Flue gases losses & Blowdown losses

4.5 Casing losses and thermography monitoring.

4.6 Piping losses and steam leak losses.

4.7 Impact of boiler efficiency on total plant efficiency.

Module (05) Performance of Steam Turbine

5.1 Effect of increasing pressure on power output

5.2 Effect of increasing steam pressure & temperature on

power output

5.3 Effect of changing condenser exhaust pressure on

power output

5.4 Effect of parameters deviation on heat rate.

5.5 Fluid friction

5.6 Leakage and new techniques to minimize leakage

5.7 Moisture, Leaving and Profile losses

5.8 Blade path deterioration

5.9 Performance improvement from polishing of turbine

blading

5.10 Case study

Module (06)

6.1 Performance of steam Condenser

6.2 Cooling water flow rate effect on Overall CCPP efficiency

6.3 Cooling water temperature

6.4 Fouling in tubes

6.5 Condensate level problems and its effect on performance

Course Contents:



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Participation, Coffee Breaks and Lunch.

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