Review of Thermal Characteristics of Diesel Fired Boiler for Steam Turbine Test Rig
| Author(s) | : | Saif Saiyed, Amit Patel |
| Institution | : | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 9 — September 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 592-602 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
The economy and feasibility of a power plant is determined by the gross efficiency of the plant and plantload factor. A power plant is majorly demarcated into three parts namely Boiler Island, Turbine Island and BOPBalance of Plant. The gross efficiency of plant is the function of efficiency of each component namely boiler, turbine,condenser, in-house power consuming unit (boiler feed pump) and other auxiliaries.This paper is a review on thermal characteristics namely thermal efficiency, heat distribution trend in the boiler and heatinertia of boiler which are critical in a power plant. The observation and data is collected from an experiment on anexperimental steam turbine test rig established at Department of Mechanical Engineering of M. S. University. The heatdistribution among the fluids is calculated, the amount of uncalculated heat lost in radiation, convection and leakage isdetermine and a comparison review is made on each part. The observed trend gives a clearer idea of the nature of theprocesses occurring inside the boiler.
Saif Saiyed, Amit Patel, “Review of Thermal Characteristics of Diesel Fired Boiler for Steam Turbine Test Rig”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 9, pp. 592-602, September 2017.
