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The location of captive thermal power plant at Angul is also strategic to the
availability and supply of coal from nearby Talcher Coalfields. The 18.5 KM
captive railway system links the captive thermal power plant to the Talcher
coalfields, enabling transport of the critical and bulk requirement of coal.
The water for the Plant is drawn from River Brahmani through a 7 KM long triple
circuit pipeline. The coal demand is met from a mine of 3.5 Million TPA capacity
opened up for Nalco, initially at Bharatpur in Talcher by Mahanadi Coalfields
Limited. The Power Plant is inter-connected with the State Grid.
COAL BASED STEAM POWER PLANT
-Runs on Modified Rankine Cycle
Rankin Cycle
Temp (T)
Entropy(S)
Process 1-2: Water from the condenser at low pressure is pumped into
the boiler at high pressure. This process is reversible adiabatic.
Process 2-3: Water is converted into steam at constant pressure by the
addition of heat in the boiler
Process 3-4: Reversible adiabatic expansion of steam in the steam
turbine.
Process 4-1: Constant pressure heat rejection in the condenser to convert
condensate into water
MODIFIED RANKINE CYCLE
Temp
Modified Rankine Cycle aims to improve efficiency of the cycle, in this case
made the extraction of steam from turbine generator to heat feed-water (FW), so
the steam boiler can work easily and reduce the requirement of fuel.
SH
HP T IP T LP T
GENERATER
C RH
BOILER
CONDENSER
CEP
H RH
FRS
EJECTOR
H SAMPLE LAYOUT OF 120 MW
P
H CPP
6
H GSC
P
H
5 DEAERATOR
B B
F
P P LPH - 3 LPH - 2 LPH - 1
ABBRIVIATION USED
In modern thermal power plants coal is pulverised i.e. ground to dust like size
and carried to the furnace in a stream of hot air. Pulverising is a means of
exposing a large surface area to the action of oxygen and consequently help in
combustion.
The best features of all the vertical spindle pulverisers have been incorporated
in the design of bowl mill. Its operating characteristics make it best mill
available for the direct firing of sub-bituminous and bituminous coal. Mill
output can be varied from its minimum to max load and it will operate for
sufficiently long period without mechanical difficulties or stoppages for
cleaning, oiling or adjusting.
The coal is fed into centre of the revolving bowl of the bowl mill. Centrifugal
force feeds the material uniformly over the replicable grinding ring where
independently pivoted Journal assemblies with grinding rolls exert required
grinding pressure. Rolls do not touch the grinding ring even when the mill is
empty, therefore the mills operate silently without tremble. The mills work
under pressure by placing primary air fans (PA Fans) in the circuit ahead of mill
and designated as RP Mill.
PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
Coal is fed to the centre of the pulveriser on to a revolving bowl. Centrifugal
force causes the coal to travel towards the perimeter of the bowl. The coal
passes between the bull ring and the grinding rolls which impart the pressure
necessary for grinding. The partially ground coal continues outward and over
than age of bowl.
The heated air enters mill side housing below the bowl and is directed upward
around the bowl outer diameter and separator body annulus by the rotating
vane. It continues upward and the deflector opening in the classifier at the top of
inert core and then through the venturimeter and the multiple port outer
assembly as the air passes upward around the bowl and picks up the partially
pulverised coal particles, carried through the deflector opening of the classifier.
The deflector blade causes the coal air mixture to spin in the inner core. The
angle of blade determines velocity of spin and resulting grain fineness. Heavier
pulverised coal returned through the inside of the inner core to the bowl for
further grinding. Coal that is pulverised to desired fineness (200 micron) leaves
the pulveriser and enter the piping system.
OPERATING PARAMETERS
1. Mill air flow: mill should be operated at the design air flow at all loads.
Lower air flow may result in coal reject, low bowl differential
pressure. Air flow is controlled by simultaneous operation of
hot and cold air dampers.
2. Mill outlet temperature: For good pulveriser performance, temp of the
mixture leaving the classifier should be maintained as high as
possible within the safe temp limit of the coal being ground
through high outlet temp may result in pulveriser fire.
3.Pulverised fuel fineness: it depends upon volatility of the coal and furnace
size. It varies for each unit.
4.Mill capacity: It depends on the hard groove grind ability index, moisture
content of the coal and the pulverised fineness output required.
BOILER AND STEAM CYCLE
BOILER OPERATION
Pulverized coal is air-blown into the furnace through burners located at the four
corners, or along one wall, or two opposite walls, and it is ignited to rapidly burn,
forming a large fireball at the centre. The thermal radiation of the fireball heats
the water that circulates through the boiler tubes near the boiler perimeter. The
water circulation rate in the boiler is three to four times the throughput. As the
water in the boiler circulates it absorbs heat and changes into steam. It is
separated from the water inside a drum at the top of the furnace. The saturated
steam is introduced into superheat pendant tubes that hang in the hottest part of
the combustion gases as they exit the furnace. Here the steam is superheated to
540 °C to prepare it for the turbine.
BOILER FURNACE AND STEAM DRUM
The water enters the boiler through a section in the convection pass called
the economizer. From the economizer it passes to the steam drum and from there
it goes through down comers to inlet headers at the bottom of the water walls.
From these headers the water rises through the water walls of the furnace where
some of it is turned into steam and the mixture of water and steam then re-enters
the steam drum. This process may be driven purely by natural
circulation (because the water is the down comers is denser than the water/steam
mixture in the water walls) or assisted by pumps. In the steam drum, the water is
returned to the down comers and the steam is passed through a series of steam
separators and dryers that remove water droplets from the steam. The dry steam
then flows into the super heater coils.
The boiler furnace auxiliary equipment includes coal feed nozzles and igniter
guns, soot blowers, water lancing and observation ports (in the furnace walls) for
observation of the furnace interior. Furnace explosions due to any accumulation
of combustible gases after a trip-out are avoided by flushing out such gases from
the combustion zone before igniting the coal. The steam drum (as well as
the super heater coils and headers) have air vents and drains needed for initial
start-up.
SUPER HEATER
Captive power plants often have a super heater section in the steam generating
furnace. The steam passes through drying equipment inside the steam drum on to
the super heater, a set of tubes in the furnace. Here the steam picks up more energy
from hot flue gases outside the tubing and its temperature is now superheated
above the saturation temperature. The superheated steam is then piped through
the main stream lines to the valves before the high pressure turbine.
ECONOMISER
Tubular heat transfer surfaces used to preheat boiler feed water before it
enters the steam drum (same like heaters)
Extract heat from the flue gas before it is exhausted to the atmosphere.
Increase overall boiler thermal efficiency
RE-HEATER
Power plant furnaces may have a re-heater section containing tubes heated by hot
flue gases outside the tubes. Exhaust steam from the high pressure turbine is
passed through these heated tubes to collect more energy before driving the
intermediate and then low pressure turbines.
AIR PATH
External fans are provided to give sufficient air for combustion. The Primary air
fan takes air from the atmosphere and, first warming it in the air pre-heater for
better combustion, injects it via the air nozzles on the furnace wall.
The induced draft fan assists the FD fan by drawing out combustible gases from
the furnace, maintaining a slightly negative pressure in the furnace to avoid
backfiring through any closing.
At the bottom of the furnace, there is a hopper for collection of bottom ash. This
hopper is always filled with water to quench the ash and clinkers falling down
from the furnace. Some arrangement is included to crush the clinkers and for
conveying the crushed clinkers and bottom ash to a storage site. Ash extractor is
used to discharge ash from Municipal solid waste fired boilers.
In the power station, the raw feed coal from the coal storage area is first crushed
into small pieces and then conveyed to the coal feed hoppers at the boilers. The
coal is next pulverized into a very fine powder. The pulverisers may be ball mills,
rotating drum grinders, or other types of grinders.
BARRING GEAR
Barring gear (or "turning gear") is the mechanism provided to rotate the turbine
generator shaft at a very low speed after unit stoppages. Once the unit is "tripped"
(i.e., the steam inlet valve is closed), the turbine coasts down towards standstill.
When it stops completely, there is a tendency for the turbine shaft to deflect or
bend if allowed to remain in one position too long. This is because the heat inside
the turbine casing tends to concentrate in the top half of the casing, making the
top half portion of the shaft hotter than the bottom half. The shaft therefore could
wrap or bend by millionths of inches. This small shaft deflection, only detectable
by eccentricity meters, would be enough to cause damaging vibrations to the
entire steam turbine generator unit when it is restarted. The shaft is therefore
automatically turned at low speed (about one percent rated speed) by the barring
gear until it has cooled sufficiently to permit a complete stop.
OIL SYSTEM
An auxiliary oil system pump is used to supply oil at the start-up of the steam
turbine generator. It supplies the hydraulic oil system required for steam turbine's
main inlet steam stop valve, the governing control valves, the bearing and seal oil
systems, the relevant hydraulic relays and other mechanisms.
At a preset speed of the turbine during start-ups, a pump driven by the turbine
main shaft takes over the functions of the auxiliary system.
Manufacturer - BHEL
Power - 120 MW
SPEED - 3000 RPM
Steam Pressure - 12585 ata
Steam Temp - 535o C
Reheat Temp - 535o C
Year - 1993
GENERATOR
Alternator is an AC generator based on Faraday's Law of EMI (Electromagnetic
Induction). In case of an alternator the Armature windings are placed on Stator
and Field winding on Rotor. Rotor shaft is coupled with the Turbine shaft.
N = RPM = 3000
P = number of poles = 2
Manufacturer - BHEL
Type - Turbo Generator
Power - 120275 Kw
PF - 0.85
KVA - 141500
Speed - 3000 Rpm
Frequency - 50 Hz
Phase -3
Connection - YY
Coolant - H2
Gas Pressure - 3 bar G
Insul. Class -B
Type - THI-930-38P
Spec - IEC-34.1
Year - 1994
EXCITER
In the past, the exciter was a small DC generator coupled to the same shaft as the
rotor. Therefore, when the rotor rotates this exciter produces the power for the
electromagnet. Control of the exciter output is done by varying the field current
of the exciter. This output from the exciter then controls the magnetic field of the
rotor to produce a constant voltage output by the generator. This DC current feeds
to the rotor through slip rings.
STEAM CONDENSING
The condenser condenses the steam from the exhaust of the turbine into liquid to
allow it to be pumped. If the condenser can be made cooler, the pressure of the
exhaust steam is reduced and efficiency of the cycle increases.
(Diagram of a typical water-cooled surface condenser.)
The surface condenser is a shell and tube heat exchanger in which cooling water
is circulated through the tubes. The exhaust steam from the low pressure turbine
enters the shell where it is cooled and converted to condensate (water) by flowing
over the tubes as shown in the adjacent diagram. Such condensers use steam
ejectors or rotary motor-driven exhausters for continuous removal of air and
gases from the steam side to maintain vacuum.
For best efficiency, the temperature in the condenser must be kept as low as
practical in order to achieve the lowest possible pressure in the condensing steam.
Since the condenser temperature can almost always be kept significantly below
100 °C where the vapour pressure of water is much less than atmospheric
pressure, the condenser generally works under vacuum. Thus leaks of non-
condensable air into the closed loop must be prevented.
Typically, the cooling water causes the steam to condense at a temperature of
about 35 °C and that creates a pressure in the condenser i.e. a vacuum of about
0.95 kg/cm2 relative to atmospheric pressure. The large decrease in volume that
occurs when water vapour condenses to liquid creates the low vacuum that helps
pull steam through and increase the efficiency of the turbines.
The limiting factor is the temperature of the cooling water and that, in turn, is
limited by the prevailing average climatic conditions at the power plant's location
(it may be possible to lower the temperature beyond the turbine limits during
winter, causing excessive condensation in the turbine). Plants operating in hot
climates may have to reduce output if their source of condenser cooling water
becomes warmer; unfortunately, this usually coincides with periods of high
electrical demand for air conditioning. The condenser generally uses either
circulating cooling water from a cooling tower to reject waste heat to the
atmosphere.
CONDENSATE CYCLE
FUNCTION OF CONDENSER
Create a vacuum by condensing steam.
Remove dissolved non-condensable gases from condensate.
Providing a leak-tight barrier between the high grade condensate
contained within the shell and the cooling water.
HOT WELL
The condenser hot well serves as a water reservoir for the turbine cycle.
Supply make-up water to the cycle.
EJECTOR
It is used to create vacuum inside the condenser.
The boiler feed-water used in the steam boiler is a means of transferring heat
energy from the burning fuel to the mechanical energy of the spinning steam
turbine. The total feed water consists of re-circulated condensate water and
purified makeup water. Because the metallic materials it contacts are subject
to corrosion at high temperatures and pressures, the makeup water is highly
purified before use. A system of water softeners and ion exchange demineralises
produces water so pure that it coincidentally becomes an electrical insulator,
with conductivity in the range of 0.3 1.0 microsiemens per centimetre.
The feed water cycle begins with condensate water being pumped out of
the condenser after travelling through the steam turbines. The water is
pressurized in two stages, and flows through a series of six or seven intermediate
feed water heaters, heated up at each point with steam extracted from an
appropriate duct on the turbines and gaining temperature at each stage. Typically,
in the middle of this series of feed-water heaters, and before the second stage of
pressurization, the condensate plus the makeup water flows through a de-
aerator that removes dissolved air from the water, further purifying and reducing
its corrosiveness. The water may be dosed following this point with hydrazine, a
chemical that removes the remaining oxygen in the water to below 5 parts per
billion (ppb). It is also dosed with pH control agents such
as ammonia or morpholine to keep the residual acidity low and thus non-
corrosive.
The form of condensing system which is used is the air-cooled condenser. The
process is similar to that of a radiator and fan. Exhaust heat from the low pressure
section of a steam turbine runs through the condensing tubes, the tubes are usually
finned and ambient air is pushed through the fins with the help of a large fan. The
steam condenses to water to be reused in the water-steam cycle. Air-cooled
condensers typically operate at a higher temperature than water-cooled versions.
While saving water, the efficiency of the cycle is reduced (resulting in more
carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity). From the bottom of the condenser,
powerful condensate pumps recycle the condensed steam (water) back to the
water/steam cycle.
Manufacturer - BHEL
Type - CENTRIFUGAL PUMP
QTY - 480 m3/hr
Head - 1906 m
Speed - 5054 RPM
Temp - 163oC
Year - 2011
BOOSTER PUMP
A booster pump may be used as a "gentle" way of increasing pressure without
causing a reduction in suction pressure and the flashing of hot water into steam.
The discharge pressure of the booster pump makes it much harder for this how
water to flash in the suction of the feed pump.
Manufacturer - BHEL
Type - CENTRIFUGAL PUMP
QTY - 489 m3/hr
Head - 101 m
Speed - 1485 RPM
Temp - 151.2oC
Year - 1992
CONCLUSION
Presently the captive thermal power plant has generation capacity of 1200 MW
with 10 turbo-generators, each rated at 120 MW. While the captive thermal power
plant provides entire electric power requirement of aluminium smelter, it also
provides for approximately 35% of the power requirement of alumina refinery
plant and also the power generation capacity of CPP is designed considering the
requirement of each unit.
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