Eymann Nowell C.

Jala October 9, 2019

BSME – LP 5 ME 516ML MW 10:30 – 1:30

Superheater

 Superheater is a heat exchanger in which heat is transferred t the saturated steam to

increase its temperature without raising its temperature.
 It raises the overall cycle efficiency.
 Reduces the moisture content in the last stages of the turbine meaning it increases
internal efficiency of the turbine itself.
 Advantages:
o Steam consumption of the engine is reduced.
o Reduced condensation losses in the cylinders
o Steam plant efficiency is increased
Economiser

 Economiser is a heat exchanger that raises the feedwater temperature leaving the
highest-pressure feedwater heater at an approximation of the saturation temperature
with respect to the boiler pressure
 It utilizes the flue gases that leaves before the chimney in heating the feedwater achieving
higher efficiency and better economy.
 Advantages:
o Increases the steam raising capacity of a boiler
o Prevents the scale that forms on the water tubes, which it can be now easily
removed due to the existing application of the economiser itself.
Evaporator

 Evaporation of pre-heated feedwater by the steam bled from the turbine is often used
where the boiler make-up water requirement is not large.
 A heat-exchange device for evaporating liquids.
 It is used to produce a distillate that compensates for losses of condensate in steam power
plants.
Dowcomers

 They carry the water from steam drum to the bottom part of the boilers where it enters
the distribution headers to be heated in the combustion zone.
Riser

 Water and steam generated in the combustion zone, runs through the risers up to the
steam drum.
 Steam is separated in steam drum and water sent to distribution header through
downcomers and the cycle is repeated.

Furnace

 An enclosed space provided for the combustion of fuel to generate steam in a boiler.
 Known as steam-generating furnace
Steam Drum

 Risers discharge to the drum as mixture of water, steam, foam and sludge.
 Steam must be also separated before it leaves the drum.
 It is a reservoir of water/steam at the upper end of the tube of water.
 Drums keep the steam produced in the water tubes and act as a phase separator for
mixed steam/water.
Feedwater Loop

 These four components comprises of a cyclic process that starts from the formation of
high pressure, highly compressed steam by the boiler.
 The high temperature steam goes to the turbine, where it operates the turbine and comes
out in the form of exhausted low energy steam.
 This low energy steam goes to the condenser, where it gets converted to water.
 The feed pump pumps this water back to the boiler and the cycle repeats itself
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