STEAM TURBINE

COMPARITIVE STUDY WITH OTHER OEM

Saravanan Ragupathy
27/7/2018
 DOUBLE FLOW IP IN 660MW

Benefits of Double flow IP Turbine

– The decision for single or double-flow is primarily made on blading design and efficiency.

– Double-flow casing for IP turbine has the advantage of eliminating the rotor gland at the high pressure end.

– The Axial force balanced by two identical Turbine flows with opposite orientation on common axle (no thrust balance piston)can auto balance
the rotor.

– The high pressure Gland steam entering the Rotor for sealing can be avoided and the same quantity of Steam can be converted to work.

– For 660MW and above the following companies use double flow IP turbine configuration.
1.Siemens.
2.Doosan Skoda Power.
3.G.E Power.
4.Toshiba Power.
 LSB SIZE OF OTHER OEM IN RECENT PROJECTS
SKODA Power
Last Stage Moving Blade
Material – T671(Cr-Ni-Mo-Cu
(high creep resistant)
Length -1085mm(42”)
TOSHIBA Power GE Hitachi
Last Stage Moving Blade
Last Stage Moving Blade
Last Stage Moving Blade
Material – T671
Material – Steel(Ni & Cr
Material – Titanium
mixed)
Length -851 mm(33.5”)
Length -1092.2mm(43”)
Length -1220 mm(48”)
COMPARITIVE CHART OF LSB PARAMETERS WITH
OTHER OEM
NO OF EXTRACTIONS IN IPT 660MW WITH OTHER OEM

FROM HRH  Generally Double flow IPT is optimized with

IP EXHAUST 2 extractions.

 For 660MW the standard configuration for

number of stages in other OEM is Double
flow(2X8 Stages).

TO HP HEATER 7

TO DEAERATOR

The above extraction arrangement is from

SIEMENS,TOSHIBA ,SKODA CONFIGURATION
 GENERAL SEALING ARRANGEMENT WITH OTHER OEM
Simple Labyrinth Seal
With the use of Brush Seal around 20% leakage
losses can be reduced(GE, Toshiba).

With the use of Honey comb sealing 30 to 32%

leakage losses can be reduced(Skoda Power *).
* Honey Comb sealing is very costly and machining accuracy required.

Advance Brush Seal Configuration Honey Comb Seal Configuration

Honey comb arrangement

 SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENT COMPARING TO OTHER OEMs
The following points may serve as the scope of improvement.
• The Labyrinth seals in HPT and IPT can be replaced by Honey Comb seals.
• The LSB annulus area can be slightly improved.
• Double flow IP Turbine can improve individual Power contribution.
Effects of Supercritical Parameters in Turbine Heat rate

• For every 1Mpa(10 bar) improvement in main steam Pressure the Turbine heat rate could be
reduced by 0.13%-0.15%.

• For every 10% improvement of Main Steam Temperature Turbine Heat rate could be reduced
by 0.25%-0.30%.

• For every 10% improvement of Reheat Steam Temperature, Turbine Heat rate could be
reduced by 0.15% -0.20%.