PLANT LOAD CALCULATION

ITEM NO. 1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The Daily of a certain Town were given by the following data:

TIME, HRS LOAD,

LOAD,KW
KW

12 MN 65,000

1 AM 61,300

2 AM 54,000

3 AM 50,800

4 AM 45,000

5 AM 45,000

6 AM 49,000

7 AM 51,300

8 AM 54,800

9 AM 57,300

10 AM 59,800

11 AM 60,000

TIME, HRS

12 NN 64,200
 1 PM 68,900

2 PM 70,100

3 PM 74,600

4 PM 79,900

5 PM 81,000

6 PM 83,745

7 PM 81,200

8 PM 80,000

9 PM 78,000

10 PM 75,300

11 PM 70,100

12 MN 65,000

DAILY ENERGY PRODUCED

The daily energy produced is equal to the area under the curve and is computed using the

equation for area of trapezoid and/or rectangle.

Thus,

Daily kW – hrs Energy = ∑ Areas under the curve

 AREAS KW-HRS ENERGY

65,000+61,300
A1 = ( )kW (1) hr 63,150 kW-hrs
2

61,300+54,00
A2 = ( )kW (1) hr 57,650 kW-hrs
2

54,000+50 , 800
A3 = ( )kW (1) hr 52,400 kW-hrs
2

50 ,800+ 45,0 00
A4 = ( )kW (1) hr 47,900 kW-hrs
2

A5 = ( 45,000)kW (1) hr 45,000 kW-hrs

45,000+ 49,0 00
A6 = ( )kW (1) hr 47,000 kW-hrs
2

49,000+51,3 00
A7 = ( )kW (1) hr 50,150 kW-hrs
2

51,300+54,8 00
A8 = ( )kW (1) hr 53,050 kW-hrs
2

54,800+57,3 00
A9 = ( )kW (1) hr 56,050 kW-hrs
2

57,300+59,8 00
A10 = ( )kW (1) hr 58,550 kW-hrs
2

59,800+60 , 000
A11 = ( )kW (1) hr 59,900 kW-hrs
2

60,000+64,2 00
A12 = ( )kW (1) hr 62,100 kW-hrs
2

64,200+68,9 00
A13 = ( )kW (1) hr 66,550 kW-hrs
2

68,900+70,1 00
A14 = ( )kW (1) hr 69,500 kW-hrs
2

70,100+74,6 00 72,350 kW-hrs

A15 = ( )kW (1) hr
2

74,600+7 9,9 00
A16 = ( )kW (1) hr 77,250 kW-hrs
2

79,900+81,0 00
A17 = ( )kW (1) hr 80,450 kW-hrs
2

81,000+83,7 45
A18 = ( )kW (1) hr 82,372.5 kW-hrs
2

83,745+81,2 00
A19 = ( )kW (1) hr 82,472.5 kW-hrs
2

81,200+80,0 00
Average Load, AL

Daily Energy Produced

AL =
No . of Hours∈Operation

1,560,345 kW −hrs .
AL =
24 hrs

AL = 65,014.375 kW

2.4.4 Load Factor, LF

Average Load
LF = x 100 %
Peak Load

65,014.375 kW
LF = x 100 %
83,745 kW

LF = 0.7763 = 77.63 %