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Rankine Examples With Solutions
Rankine Examples With Solutions
Plant Load Factor (PLF): It is a measure of average capacity utilization. Its ratio of
average load to capacity. Also defined as, ratio of average load to peak load at a certain
period.
Capacity Factor: The net capacity factor of a power plant is the ratio of the actual output
of a power plant over a period of time and its output if it had operated the entire time at
full nameplate capacity.
Peaking Power Plants: The Power plants which generally run when there is a peak
demand of power. These are generally gas turbines that burn natural gas.
Specific Steam Consumption (SSC): this is the required steam consumption rate (kg/s)
per unit power (energy) generation (kJ).