Steam Oxidation and Chromia Evaporation in Ultra-Supercritical Steam Boilers and Turbines

Fault Diagnosis for Steam-flow Exciting Vibration of Ultra Supercritical 1000 MW Steam Turbine

With the increase in thermal power capacity, ultra supercritical units have become the mainstream of power industry. At the same time, with the improvement of the steam parameters and the lengthening of shafting, the production of steam flow excited vibration is frequent in the ultra supercritical units, which may seriously affect the reliability of the unit. This paper has taken steam flow exc...

Avoiding Stressed-Out Steam Turbines

assembly, Pro/ENGINEER CAD geometry was imported into ANSYS Mechanical software and meshed using SOLID185 elements. Frictionless surface-tosurface contact pairs with augmented Lagrangian algorithms were created between mating surfaces. A matching node pattern was maintained at the root and slot pressure faces, where load transfers take place between the two components. As an in-house design pra...

Steam Turbines for Biomass Plants

Power Plants, Steam and Gas Turbines WebQuest

A WebQuest is an Internet-based and inquiry-oriented learning activity. The aim of this work is to outline the creation of a WebQuest entitled “Power Generation Plants: Steam and Gas Turbines.” This is one of the topics covered in the course “Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer,” which is offered in the second year of Mechanical Engineering at the Defense University Center at the Naval Academy in ...

Basic Water Treatment of Steam Boilers

In order to fully understand what a given boiler needs for treatment, a basic study of its supply water must be done first. Three types of impurities exist in all supplies and can cause a wide range of problems in boilers and kilns. These impurities are suspended solids, dissolved solids, and dissolved gasses. Water picks up the impurities from the ground it contacts and the air through which i...