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Electrical energy is produced in power stations by generators, each driven by a steam turbine. Heat or thermal energy is released when fuel is burnt in the boiler. Steam produced in the boiler transfers energy to the turbine where it is converted to mechanical energy that drives the generator. The circuit or path of the steam flow from the boiler to the turbines and water flow from the condenser to the boiler is known as the Thermal Cycle. The circuit or path of airflow to the boiler and gasses of combustion from the boiler furnace back to the atmosphere is known as the Air/Gas Circuit.
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The steam leaves the HP turbine to return to a heat exchanger located in the boiler flue gas path known as the reheater where its temperature (energy level) is increased. The hot reheat steam flows to the IP and finally to the Low Pressure (LP) turbine, expanding on the way through as it does its work spinning the turbine blades. The steam exhausts from the LP turbine to the condenser, where the steam space is held at a high vacuum ensuring maximum expansion (work) from the steam through the LP turbine. The exhaust steam is condensed in the condenser turning back into water known as condensate. The Cooling Water (CW) system supplies vast volumes of seawater to the condenser to condense the exhaust steam. The extraction pump removes the condensate from the condenser and delivers it to the deaerator via the LP feed heaters. The deaerator and LP feed heaters use steam bled from the IP and LP turbines to pre-heat the condensate (LP feedwater). The Boiler Feed Pump draws water from the deaerator storage tank and so the cycle is complete.
POWER GENERATION
The turbine(s) provide the driving energy for the generator rotor. The magnetic field produced by the electromagnetic rotor cut the conductors in the stator inducing a voltage in them; a current flows when the circuit is completed, thus electrical energy is supplied to the interconnected grid.
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Stop Valve Pressure Stop Valve Temperature Reheater Inlet Pressure Reheater Inlet Temperature Reheat Outlet Pressure Reheat Outlet Temperature Superheater Control Reheater Control
Economiser Type Airheater Type Firing Configuration Number of Burners Burner Turndown Ratio Gas
12 gas 3:1
MCR Fuel Consumption Coal Gas Oil 60 T/hr 25.92 T/hr 25.92 T/hr 27.4 T/hr 65 T/hr 40.32 T/hr 43.7 T/hr
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TAGE A
TAGE B
TAGE C
Induced Draught Number per Boiler Type Capacity per Fan Motors
ouble Inlet Centrifugal xial Flow 0.89 kg/s 60 kW 4 pole 8.04 kg/s 90 kW 4 pole
2 Axial Flow 123 kg/s 795 kW 4 pole
Forced Draught Number per Boiler Type Capacity per Fan Motors
xial Flow 2.2 kg/s 92 kW 4 pole xial Flow 6.28 kg/s 40 kW 4 pole
2
Primary Air Fans Number per Boiler Type Capacity per Fan Motors
entrifugal 5.4 kg/s 20 kW 4 pole
Boiler Feed Pumps Number per Boiler Speed Capacity per pump Motors
860 RPM 8.59 kg/s 230 kW 170 RPM 1.11 kg/s 230 kW
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Fuel Oil Storage 2 tanks holding 2 tanks holding 2 tanks holding 3 tanks holding 6,200 tonnes each 10,000 tonnes each 14,000 tonnes each 30,000 tonnes each
Delivery
Coal Storage
Delivery
Trains from Collie, normally 3 per day: 2 x 28 wagons, 1 x 20 wagons Each wagon holds 50 tonnes.
Unloading Rate
If the units are On Load 24 hours per day, the station would burn: 6,000 2,190,000 tonnes of coal per day tonnes of coal per year
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COAL
August 1983 December 1982 April 1979 April 1978
GAS
June 1987 December 1987 November 1983 April 1984 October 1984 October 1984
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STAGE B STAGE C
2 X 120 M.W.
120 M.W.
ON
OIL GAS
2 X 200 M.W.
ON ON
1 X 20 M.W.
20 M.W.
GAS TURBINE
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