UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & ENERGY STUDIES

VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF POWER PLANT

| Mohammed Kabiruddin
Various Components of Power Plant
Contents
Boiler Turbine Deaerator Heat Exchangers Super Heater Economizers Condenser Feed water heat
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Thermal Power Station
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Boiler
A boiler is an enclosed vessel that provides a means for combustion heat to be transferred
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(1) Radiation, which is the transfer of heat from a hot body to a cold body without a conve
The boiler system comprises of: feed water system, steam system and fuel system. The feed w
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Throughout the system, steam pressure is regulated using valves and checked with steam pres
1. Fire tube or "fire in tube" boilers; contain long steel tubes through which the hot gass
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2. Water tube or "water in tube" boilers in which the conditions are reversed with the wate
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Turbine
Turbine, rotary engine that converts the energy of a moving stream of water, steam, or gas
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Deaerator
A deaerator is a device that is widely used for the removal of air and other dissolved gase
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Heat Exchangers
Heat exchangers are equipment that transfers heat from one medium to another. The proper de
Heat exchangers may be classified according to their flow arrangement. In parallel-flow hea
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For efficiency, heat exchangers are designed to maximize the surface area of the wall betwe
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Super Heater
A super heater is a device in a steam engine that heats the steam generated by the boiler a
Super heaters were applied to steam locomotives in quantity from the early 20th century, to
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6.
Condenser
The surface condenser is a shell and tube heat exchanger in which cooling water is circulat
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Thus leaks of non-condensable air into the closed loop must be prevented. Plants operating
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Economizers
Economizers, or in British English economisers, are mechanical devices intended to reduce e
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Feed water heater
In the case of a conventional steam-electric power plant utilizing a drum boiler, the surfa
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Electrical generator:-
In electricity generation, an electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical ene
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10. Bibliography
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_power_station 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaer
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