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AIM :- TO STUDY ABOUT
STEAM POWER PLANT
INTRODUCTION
A modern steam power station is highly complex and it
requires numerous main equipments and auxiliary equipments.
The important equipments of steam power station are 1.Steam
Generating Equipment 2. Condenser 3.Prime mover 4.Water
Treatment Plant 5. Electrical Equipment 1.Steam Generating
Equipment It is an important part of steam power station and it
is mainly concerned with the generation of superheated steam.
I t includes items such as boiler, boiler furnace, super heater,
economizer, air pre- heater and other heat reclaiming devices
1.1 Boiler is a closed vessel in which heat energy obtained by
coal combustion is used to convert water into steam and it
could be broadly classified into two (a)Water tube boilers (b)
Fire tube boilers In a water tube boiler water flows through the
SCHEMATIC BLOCK DIAGRAM
EQUIPMENTS ARE USED IN
POWER PLANT
1.Steam Generating Equipment
2. Condenser
3.Prime mover
4.Water Treatment Plant
5. Electrical Equipment
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BOLIER
Boiler is a closed vessel in which
heat energy obtained by coal
combustion is used to convert
water into steam and it could be
broadly classified into two
(a) Water tube boilers (b) Fire tube
boilers
In a water tube boiler water flows
through the tube and the hot gases
produced by combustion flows
over the tube there by heating it.
But in the case of Fire tube boilers
the combustion gases and other
byproducts of
combustion flows through the tube surrounded by water. Water tube
boilers are more advantageous than fire tube boilers since it
requires less space, smaller size of tubes and drums, high working
pressure due to small drum, less chance of explosion techs we
choose water tube boilers of large capacity in steam power stations.
The pictures of boiler control board and water tube boiler is given
below respectively
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TURBINE
The turbine generator consists of a series of
steam turbines interconnected to each other and a generator
on a common shaft. There is a high pressure turbine at one
end, followed by an intermediate pressure turbine, two low
pressure turbines, and the generator. As steam moves
through the system and loses pressure and thermal energy it
expands in volume, requiring increasing diameter and longer
blades at each
The steam turbine-driven generators have auxiliary systems
enabling them to work satisfactorily and safely.
The steam turbine generator being
rotating equipment generally has a
heavy, large diameter shaft. The shaft
therefore requires not only supports but
also has to be kept in position while
running. To minimize the frictional
resistance to the rotation, the shaft has
a number of bearings. The bearing
shells, in which the shaft rotates, are
lined with a low friction material like
Babbitt metal. Oil lubrication is
provided to further reduce the friction
between shaft and bearing surface and
to limit the heat generated.
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SUPERHEATER
A superheated is a device which superheats the steam i.e., it
raises the temperature of steam above boiling point of
water. This increases the overall efficiency of the plant. A
superheated consist of a group of tubes made of special
alloy steels such as chromium-molybdenum. These tubes
are heated by heat of flue gases during their journey from
the furnace to the chimney. The steam produced in the
boiler is led through the superheated where it is
superheated by the heat of flue gases. Superheated are
mainly classified into two types according to the system of
heat transfer from flue gases to steam viz.
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