TRAINING COURSE: Performance Calculations and Efficiency for power plant

Module (03) 3.1 Establishing tasks dependencies

• 3.2 Heat balance of a combined cycle.
• 3.3 Case study.
• 3.4 How to calculate the efficiency of combined cycle plant.
• 3.5 What are the operating factors that influence the efficiency.
• 3.6 How would environmental condition influence efficiency.
• 3.7 Overall Plant Performance ASME PTC 46 – 201X.
• 3.8 Dependence of overall CCPP efficiency on individual component performance and efficiency
• 3.9 What is Heat Rate?
• 3.10 Cost of Heat Rate Deviations
• 3.11 Financial Loss of increased heat rate for specific power operating power plants.
• 3.12 Technology impact on Improvements of newly built plants compared to previously built plants. 

Module (04) Performance calculations of Gas Turbine Unit

• 4.1 Different gas turbine cycles
• 4.2 Determining ISO Power and ISO Heat Rate
• 4.3 Correcting for Ambient Temperature, Altitude, Humidity, Inlet and Exhaust Pressure Losses, Mechanical Transmission Losses and Turbine Deterioration.
• 4.4 Part load heat rate
• 4.5 Methods of Increasing Power Output
• 4.6 Gas Turbine Inlet Air Cooling • Evaporative cooler
•  Fogging system • Mechanical refrigeration system (direct type)
•  Mechanical refrigeration system (indirect type)
•  Mechanical refrigeration with ice storage
•  Mechanical refrigeration system with chilled water storage
•  Single stage Lithium Bromide Absorption chiller
•  Two stage Lithium Bromide Absorption chiller
• 4.7 Performance Evaluation of Different Inlet Air Cooling Systems:
• 4.8 Capital Cost Comparisons of Inlet Cooling Systems
• 4.9 Effect of Fouling on compressor Performance 

Module (05) Performance calculations of HRSG

• 5.1 Single, double, triple pressure HRSG
• 5.2 Arrangement of coils and Evaporator pinch design.
• 5.3 Energy balance of HRSG between gases and water
• 5.4 Flue gases losses
• 5.5 Blowdown losses
• 5.6 Casing losses and thermography monitoring.
• 5.7 Piping losses and steam leak losses.
• 5.8 Impact of boiler efficiency on total plant efficiency. 

Module (06) Performance of Steam Turbine

• 6.1 Effect of increasing pressure on power output
• 6.2 Effect of increasing steam temperature on power output
• 6.3 Effect of increasing steam pressure & temperature on power output
• 6.4 Effect of changing condenser exhaust pressure on power output
• 6.5 Case study
• 6.6 Effect of parameters deviation on heat rate.
• 6.7 Fluid friction
• 6.8 Leakage and new techniques to minimize leakage
• 6.9 Moisture, Leaving and Profile losses
• 6.10 Blade path deterioration: steam turbine blade path Audit.
• 6.11 Performance improvement from polishing of turbine blading

Module (07) 7.1 Performance of steam Condenser

• 7.2 Cooling water flow rate effect on Overall CCPP efficiency
• 7.3 Cooling water temperature
• 7.4 Fouling in tubes
• 7.5 Condensate level problems and its effect on performance