Power Plant Semester

Project
By
Ahmad Sabur Hassan (160418)
Raja Areeb Sultan (160378)
Umar Saeed (160404)

BEME F-16(B)
 Problem

• The problem we have given is to find the position of feed water

heater where it gives the maximum efficiency. We had to choose the
steam power plant of our own choice and find the optimum position
where we installed a feed water heater to attain maximum efficiency.

• Then by adding more than 1 feed water heater at different boiler

saturation temperature and plot a graph of reduction of heat rate by
feed water heating.
 Solution

• We take a steam power plant with following properties:

Boiler pressure= 15MPa

Turbine inlet temperature= 600°C

Condenser Pressure= 10KPa

 Solution Cont.

• we calculate the efficiency of steam power plant without feed water

heater. Than we put a feed water heater between boiler and
condenser at 25% between temperature of boiler and condenser. By
installing the feed water heater at 25%, 50%, and 75% and calculating
the efficiencies at different position of feed water heater we observe
that the maximum efficiency occurs when we install feed water
heater at 75% temperature difference.
 Efficiency

• The efficiencies at different positions of feed water heaters are as

under:

I. Without feed water heater 43.3%

II. With feed water heater at 25% Temperature= 44.56%

III. With feed water heater at 50% temperature= 46.34%

IV. With feed water heater at 75% Temperature= 46.55%

 Matlab Code

• We have also made a code that would be helpful to solve it in less time and
could be of use to others. We have written steam table properties in MS
Excel and then import those properties in Matlab by using import data. The
code will solve the problem by solving the equations and picking the
desired properties from steam table. At the end it gives the state
properties at each state, heat input and heat out, work in and work out
and at the end gives the efficiency of the power plant.
Steam Tables
Import in
Matlab Code
Part of Steam
Table Code
 Some
Results from
Matlab
 Cost calculation
• %overall cost analysis and calculations
• %Our plant has the production capacity of 2 MW we also know that 500000
• %metric ton produces 220MW so using unitary method we find the proportion of coal X used
• %to produce Y MW of energy.
• Y = input('The production capacity of your plant? ')
• X = (500000*Y)/220
• %now we know that cost of 1 metric ton of coal is 6000RS so cost of x
• %metric ton is
• coal_cost = 6000*X

• The overall cost for the power plant is 150 million rupees.
• The recovery time is 6 years.
Graph of Reduction of heat rate by
regenerative feed water heating
 Conclusion
• The effects of the feedwater heaters on the performance of coal-fired power
plant have been determined. An analysis reveals that overall power plant
efficiency has been increased by 2.4 % using feedwater heater.

• The final result shows an overall better performance of power plant by using
feedwater heaters. The result also shows that the steam power plant gives
maximum efficiency when the feed water heater is placed at the 75%
temperature difference of boiler and condenser.