Handbook for cogeneration and combined cycle power plants /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyce, Meherwan P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : ASME Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An overview of power generation
  • Distributed generation
  • Cogneneration
  • Combined cycle plants
  • Properties of gas turbine exhaust
  • Steam generation calculations
  • Gas turbine heat recovery
  • Supplementary firing of heat recovery systems
  • Cycles
  • Combined cycle plant operation
  • The Brayton Cycle
  • Advanced gas turbine cycles
  • Actual cycle analysis
  • Summantion of cycle analysis
  • A general overview of combined cycle plants
  • Performance and mechanical equipment standards
  • Major variables of a combined cycle power plant
  • Performance standards
  • Mechanical parameters
  • Gas turbines
  • Gears
  • Lubrications systems
  • Vibration measurements
  • Specifications
  • An overview of gas turbines
  • Industrial heavy-duty gas turbines
  • Aircraft-derivative gas turbines
  • Medium-range gas turbines
  • Small gas turbines
  • Major gas turbine components
  • Turbine expander section
  • Instrumentation and controls
  • An overview of steam turbines
  • The Rankine Cycle
  • Steam turbine
  • An overview of pumps
  • Types of pumps
  • Pump application in combined cycle power plants
  • Heat recovery steam generators
  • The horizontal type HRSG
  • The vertical type HRSG
  • Once through steam generator
  • Design considerations
  • Multi-pressure steam generators
  • Casing of the HRSG
  • Finned tubing
  • Off-design performance
  • Evaporators
  • Forced circulation system
  • Back pressure considerations (gas side)
  • Supplementary firing of heat recovery systems
  • Design features
  • Once through steam generators
  • HRSG operational characterisitcs
  • HRSG effectiveness
  • Water chemistry
  • Vibration and noise
  • Filter housing, duct work and insulation
  • Filter housing duct work
  • Diverters, silencers and burners
  • Insulation
  • Duct burners
  • Silencers
  • HRSG reliability and durability
  • Condensers and cooling towers
  • Condensers
  • Cooling Towers
  • Chemical water treatment
  • Generators, motors and switch gears
  • Motors
  • Generator
  • Switchgear
  • Electrical single line diagram
  • Fuels, fuel piping and fuel storage
  • Fueld Specifications
  • Fuel properties
  • Heavy Fuels
  • Cleaning of turbine components
  • Fuel economics
  • Heat tracing of piping system
  • Storage of liquids
  • Bearings, seals and lubrication systems
  • Bearings
  • Seals
  • Lubrication oil system
  • Control sytstems and condition monitoring
  • Control systems
  • Condition monitoring systems
  • Design of a condition-monitoring system
  • Implementation of a condition-monitoring system
  • Power plant optimization
  • Life cycle costs
  • Performance testing of combined cycle power plant
  • Gas turbine
  • HRSG calculations module
  • Steam turbine calculations
  • Condenser calculations
  • Performance curves
  • Performance computations
  • Steam turbines
  • Maintenance techniques
  • Philosophy of maintenance
  • Maximization of equipment efficiency and effectiveness
  • Organization structures.