Plant Performance and Calculation
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Plant Performance and Calculation
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Introduction
This five-day intensive course is designed for performance monitoring & efficiency considering the optimization of combined cycle power plant through operation, maintenance, and reliability. This course deals with the design and detailed operation and maintenance characteristics of the gas turbine combined cycle power plant, with major emphasis on the major plant components and the performance of the plant. Overall design and operation concepts along with basic and advanced operation and maintenance problems for the various pieces of Turbo Machinery including Gas Turbines, Steam Turbines, Generators, HRSG, and Balance of plant Rotating equipment will be discussed. Discussions and design parameters of the Heat Recovery and Steam Generating (HRSG) systems, the feedwater heaters, and the Condensers are also included. Other topics covered include plant systems, fuel, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, instrumentation, components and BOP reliability program, Thermal performance analysis vibration analysis, and online condition monitoring of the Power Plant. An emphasis is placed on providing practical information with minimal theory. Case studies with the aim of a thorough understanding of Combined Cycle Power Plant life extension and evaluation and Performance Benchmarking for a typical power plant.
Objectives
- Improved job performance, Decision-making capabilities
- Understanding the Design Concepts of CCPP Components Systems
- CCPP performance Evaluation throughout life Cycle
- Understanding Life Extension Evaluation and Recommendations
- Understanding CCPP Key Performance Indicators in Operational Performance and maintenance
- Understanding CCPP design, operation, and maintenance requirements
- Technology transfer between participants
- Understanding Operation Cost Monitoring vs Performance
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions regular group exercises and activities videos case studies and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for all Technical Staff who are working power generation, utilities, process, and other heavy industries. This includes Fresh-graduate Engineers, Under-development Engineers, and Engineers who have limited experience in power plant performance and generation. Further, this course is suitable for all experienced technical personnel in the power plant generation field who have no engineering degrees or formal training in engineering. Managers and engineers of different disciplines might find this course very useful as an awareness course in power plant performance and efficiency.
Course Outline
DAY 1: Overview of the CCPP major plant
- Equipment
- Gas turbines
- HRSG, steam turbine
- Generators
- Balance of plant, systems, and components
- Feedwater heaters, Condensers
- Boiler feedwater pumps
- Plant layout
- Environmental considerations
- Mechanical arrangement
- Aerothermal characters of plant equipment
- ASME, API codes for plant equipment
- Design and operation control criteria for performance
- Equipment selection criteria for best-integrated performance
- Economic aspects of installations, cost
- Per MWH HR Considerations
- Cycle analysis of the combined cycle power plant
DAY 2: Major equipment
- Advanced gas turbine technology
- Classification, types, and sizes of gas turbines in combined cycle power generation
- Technological development trends in gas turbine technology
- Modular design concept, aero-derivative GT vs industrial gas turbines
- Methods of increasing cycle efficiency and the output power
- Overview of fuels and materials consideration
- High-temperature turbines closed cycles and other developments
- Aero thermodynamic considerations
- Cycle analysis of gas turbines and centrifugal compressors
- Gas turbine and axial compressor
- Performance calculations, operating maps
- Mechanical, performance and aerodynamic aspects of gas turbines
- Axial compressors
- High-temperature materials coatings
- Gas turbine materials
- Turbine blades, NGVs (Nozzles)
- Design and operational considerations
- Material behavior
- Hot corrosion, high cycle and low cycle fatigue with the case study
- Effect of fuel on GT integrated performance
- Advance coatings as applied to both the hot section components and the compressor
DAY 3: Fuels, types of fuels
- Natural gas to heavy fuel oil to low Btu gas
- Gas turbine performance with different fuels
- Variable load conditions, baseload, and full load
- Effects on downstream components
- HRSG, steam turbine, etc.
- Duct burners use in the system
- Steam turbine technology
- Design of the steam turbines, materials
- Sub, supercritical cycles in power generation
- High-pressure turbine, IP and LP turbines
- Performance analysis of steam turbines
- HRSG heat recovery steam generator
- HRSG design for performance
- Criteria’s, materials
- Feedwater heaters
- Detractors, economizers, pre-heaters
- Evaporator, and superheater
- Cycling issues, thermal & mechanical fatigues
- Performance optimization techniques to ensure maximum effectiveness of the HRSG
- Corrosion control programs
- BOP condensers feedwater pumps condensers
- Pumps performance analysis
- Effects on power plant output & performance
- Design characteristics, charts, maps, piping, structure reliability programs
- Life cycle performance analysis
- Generator performance, load curves & optimum operation
DAY 4: Combined cycle power plant
- Performance and optimization
- Power plant life cycle
- Plant degradation
- Performance deterioration
- Maintenance program effectiveness cost over the life cycle
- Performance calculations API, ASME PTC performance test codes
- Gas turbine, compressor, HRSG, performance maps margins for steam turbine
- BOP rotating equipment
- Generators transformers
- Performance KPI’s for combined cycle power plant integrating the performance together
- Benchmarking of CCGTPP
- Analysis techniques tools for power
- Generation data
- Performance, life assessment, case studies
- The combined cycle power plant, life assessment principles
- Stages approach to life assessment
- Cost-effective management strategies
- Component specific techniques
- Performance targets Vs actual
DAY 5: Maintenance, reliability programs to meet performance targets
- Power plant maintenance program
- Maintenance planning and scheduling
- Applying best maintenance strategies and philosophies
- Integrating maintenance & reliability with CCPP performance
- Performance documents, review reports
- Reliability program, reports
- Condition monitoring techniques
- RCM program, integrating between system, component performance
- Repair Vs replace decisions for combined cycle power Plant

