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1. PREFACE
2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
3. ABOUT PLANT
4. PLANT FAMILIARIZATION
(i)TURBINE
(ii)BOILER
(iii)E.S.P.
(iv)COAL HANDLING PLANT
(v)ASH HANDLING PLANT
(vi)GENERATOR
(vii)CONDENSER
(viii)MILLING PLANT
(ix)SWITCHYARD
We underwent practical training at “KOTA SUPER THERMAL POWER STATION” From 17-June-
2014 to 16-July -2014. This is a part of today 45 days training programme incorporate in the curricum
of the Rajasthan Technical University for B.Tech course.
As we are the students of Electrical Engineering so the training at K.T.P.S. has been particularly
beneficial for us. We saw the various procedure, processes and equipment use in production of
electricity by thermal power which were studied in books and this has helped us better understanding of
power generation and concepts of controlling of instrumentation power.
K.T.P.S. is very large plant and it is very difficult to acquire complete knowledge about it in a short
span. We have tried to get acquainted with overall plant functioning and main concepts involved there
in. It is very vital trade.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to my H.O.D of Electrical Department Mr. H.P. Agrawal
for suggest and valuable guidance me for K.T.P.S. It is my proud privilege to express my sense of
gratitude to assistant engineers for providing me adequate facilities to undergo training at K.T.P.S.
I am thankful to Mr. B.P.Chakraborthy (S.E.), Mr. H.K. Tomar(A.En.) for their valuable guidance and
co-operation without which it was not possible to get so much knowledge.
I am equally obliged to all those Engineers Technical Personnel and operators at K.T.P.S. who gave
their valuable time and rendered practical knowledge in my training period.
And at last I want to thank my colleagues. Without their help, Guidance and suggestions it was not
possible to produce this training report.
INTRODUCTION :-
Kota thermal power station is the first super thermal plant of Rajasthan. Kota Super Thermal Station is
owned by Rajasthan Rajya Vidhyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. And is situated near village Riyanwali about
25 km from Kota Town, an ideal location for setting up a thermal power station in the state planning
regards to availability of land, water, transportation network, broad gauge railway and being an
important load centre for north west Rajasthan.
The techno-economic clearance for the prefect was issued by CEA in June 1991.
The cost of the project is estimate at Rs. 2300 crores of including IDC.
It has a generation capacity of 1500 MW and installed with six Units of 250 MW each.
It is a coal base thermal station. Water and coal required in a large amount. Coal is received here from
coal-fields of MP areas through railways and water is received from INDIRA GANDHI CANAL. The
supply of coal is from MP, Jharkhand by rail.
About 18000 tons coal required per day for whole unit and each unit consumes 150 tons coal per day.
About 2x3 km2 area covered by plant and approximately 1800 employees works in a plant including
chief engineer to labour. The supply of electricity to the northern Rajasthan, Ratangarh, Bikaner,
Ganganagar.
FUTURE EXPENSION:-
It has been decided to set up 2x660 MW super critical units (unit # 7 & 8) at SSTPS. For this purpose
about 446 Hectare land has been identified adjacent to the existing 6x250 MW plant. This land is under
process of acquisition. M/S TEC have been appointed consulting engineers for this project. The state
Govt. has also accorded its in principle approval for setting up in future, two additional units 2x660
MW (Unit # 9 & 10) also based on supercritical technology.
INSTALLED CAPACITY:-
Following is the unit wise capacity of the plant:
IV VI 1x250 1117
TOTAL 5127
LAY-OUT:-
STEAM TURBINE:-
● Introduction:
Steam turbine is a rotating machine which CONVERTS HEAT ENERGY OF STEAM TO
MECHANICAL ENERGY.
In India, steam turbines of different capacities, varying from 15 MW to 500 MW, are employed in the
field of thermal power generation.
● Basic principles:
The Thermal Power Plants with steam turbine uses Rankine cycle. Rankine cycle is a vapour power
cycle having two basic characteristics
1.The working fluid is a condensable vapour which is in liquid phase during part of the cycle and
2.The cycle consists of a succession of steady flow processes, with each processes carried out in a
separate component specially designed for the purpose. Each constitute an open system, and all the
components are connected in series so that as the fluid circulates through the power plant each fluid
element passes through a cycle of mechanical and thermodynamic stages.
The turbine is of tandem compound design with separate HP, IP and LP cylinder.
The HP & IP turbines are single flow type while LP turbine is of double flow type; the turbine is
condensing type with single reheat. It is basically engineered on reaction principle with throttle
governing. The stages are arranged in HP, IP and LP turbines, driving alternating current full capacity
Turbo generators.
● Specification:
Type - Tandem compound condensing
reaction
● TURBINE COMPONENTS
Casing or Cylinders:
A casing is essentially a pressure vessel which must be capable of withstanding the maximum working
pressure and temperature that can be produced with in it. The working pressure aspects demand thicker
and thicker casing and the temperature aspects demand thinner and thinner casing.
1. H.P Turbine Casing:The principal parts of the HP turbine casing are and axially split inner
shell, enclosing the rotor and outer shell of a barrel-type construction. The barrel type of
cylinder construction ensures symmetry of the wall thickness around the axis of rotation and
hence the wall thickness itself is relatively less than that used in other type of construction.
2. I.P. Turbine Casing: The IP turbine is split axially and is of single shell design. The outer
casing accommodates a double flow inner casing. The steam coming from the re-heater is
passed into the inner casing via admission branches which are symmetrically arranged in the top
and bottom halves of the outer casing.
3. L.P Turbine Casing: The LP turbine is of double flow type. The casing is of triple shell,
fabricated construction. The outer casing consists of the front and rear end walls, two
longitudinal girders and a top cover. The inner shell of the inner casing acts as the guide blade
carriers of the LP stage groups are so designed that, together with the inner casing, they from
annular ducts which are used for extractions.
Turbine governing system
The man purpose of governor is to maintain this desired speed of turbine during fluctuations of load on
the generator by varying steam input to the turbine. The governing system in addition to ensuring the
falling load-speed characteristics of the turbine also ensures the following functions:
1.The run up the turbine from rest to rated speed and synchronizing with the grid.
2. Meeting the system load variations in a predetermined manner, when running in parallel with other
machines.
3. Protecting the machine by reducing the load or shutting off completely in abnormal and emergency
situations.
The governing system also includes other devices to protect the turbine from abnormal condition that
may arise during operation.
By-pass Governing:
In this system, in general, the steam is supplied through a primary valve and is adequate to meet a
major fraction of the maximum load which is called economic load loads less than this, the regulation
is done by throttling steam through this valve. When the load on the turbine exceeds this economics
load which can be developed by the unthrottle full flow through the primary valve, a secondary valve,
is opened and throttled steam is supplied downstream, bypassing the first stage and some high-pressure
stages. This steam joins the partially spent steam admitted through the primary valve, developing
additional blade torque to meet the increased load.
● Introduction
The boiler is the main part of any thermal power plant. It converts the fuel energy into steam energy.
The fuel may be furnace oil, diesel oil, natural gas or coal. The boilers may be fired from the multiple
fuels. The boiler installed in S.T.P.S. are made by M/s BHEL. Each of the boilers are single drum,
tangential fired water tube naturally circulated over hanged, balanced draft, dry bottom reheat type and
is designed for pulverizing coal firing with a max. Continuous steam output of 375 tons/ hour at 138
kg/cm2 pressure and 540 degree cent. Temp. The thermal efficiency of each boiler at MCR is 86.8 %.
Four no. of bowl mills have been installed for each boiler. Oil burners are provided for initial startup
and stabilization of low load. Two E.S.P. (one for each boiler) is arranged to handle flue gases from the
respective boilers. The gases from E.S.P. are discharged through 180 meters high chimney. I.D. fan and
a motor is provided near the chimney to induce the flue gases.
● CIRCULATION SYSTEM:
It is essential to provide an adequate flow of water and/or of water-steam mixture for an efficient
transfer of heat from furnace to the working fluid and to prevent ‘burn-outs’. This is irrespective of the
mode of circulation being used. In STPS NATURAL type of circulation system are used.
● Natural Circulation:
In this type, no external pumping device is used for the movement of the fluid. The difference
in densities in contents of fluids in down comers from the drum and risers in the furnaces is
used to effect the movement of fluids. This type of circulation is employed in most of the utility
boiler. The movement of the steam and water will increase with increased heat input to a
maximum value or so called end point, after which further increase in heat absorption will result
in a decrease in flow.
One of the characteristics of natural circulation is its tendency to provide the highest flow in the
tubes with greatest heat absorption.
● Conduction
● Convection
● Radiation
Heat energy is transferred from a heat source to a heat receiver by one or more of these modes for
which heat source should be at a higher temperature than the receiver.
In super heater tube with high temperature region but does not directly view the flame. Here the heat is
transferred from flue gas to super heater tube metal by convection and by non-luminous radiation and
in the tube metal by conduction and to the steam by forced convection.
The power plant boilers are large capacity steam generators used purely for the electrical power
generation.
● Economizer:
Economizer is a feed water heater. It uses the heat produced by the flue gases for this purpose. The feed
water is passed through the economizer before supplying it to the boiler and economizer absorbs a part
of heat from the flue gas to increase the temperature of the feed water.
● Super Heater:
The steam produced in the boiler has got moister content so it is dried and superheated (i.e. steam
temperature is increased above boiling point of water) by the flue gases on the way to chimney. Super
heating ensures two benefits at first the overall efficiency of the system is increased and secondly the
corrosion to the turbine blades due to condensation in later stages is prevented. The superheated steam
from super heater is fed to steam turbine by means of a main valve.
● Steam Flow:
Saturated dry steam from the drum follows the course that is:
Steam cooled wall roof tubes – steam cooled side wall tubes –extended steam cooled side wall tubes –
front steam cooled wall tubes – steam cooled roofs and rear wall tubes – super heater rear horizontal
assemblies – super heater de-super heater –platen super heater- pendant super heater.
Superheated steam from the pendant super heater outlet header goes to the turbine via the main steam
lines.
After passing through the high – pressure stages of the turbine, steam is returned to the re-heater via the
cold reheat lines. The reheat de-super heaters are located in the cold reheat lines.
Front pendant re heater- rear pendant re-heater after reheated to the design temperature, the reheated
steam is returned to the low-pressure section of the turbine via the hot reheat line.
● Re-heater:
Re-heater are provided to raise the temperature of the steam from which part of energy already been
extract by HP turbine.
The re-heater is composed of two stages or section, the front pendant vertical spaced platen section and
the rear pendant vertical spaced platen section. The rear pendant vertical spaced section is located
above the furnace arch between the water-cooled screen tubes and rear water wall hanger tubes.
The front pendant vertical spaced plated section is located between the rear water wall hanger tubes and
the superheated platen section. All re-heater drains and vents are opened before lighting off. The vents
and drains to the atmosphere must be closed prior to raising a vacuum in the condenser. Drains
connecting with the condenser may be lift open until the boiler is under light load.
WATER COOLED FURNANCES:-
Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited has developed the modern water-cooled furnace.
Furnace is the primary part of boiler where the chemical energy available in the fuel is converted to
thermal energy by combustion. Furnace is designed for efficient and complete combustion. Major
factors that assist for efficient combustion are time of residence(fuel) inside the furnace, temperature
inside the furnace and turbulence which causes rapid mixing between fuel and air.
SOOT BLOWERS:-
Steam has mainly been used as the soot blowing medium, but recently the used low-pressure air as a
soot blowing medium has been introduced as this offers a number of advantage.
● Air System:
1. Combustion Air (Secondary Air): The forced draft fans supply the required secondary
air for combustion.
This air is preheated by two no. RPAH. Control of secondary air flow is done by FD fan blade pitch
control. The distribution of hot secondary air to the wind box compartments is controlled by
“Secondary air dampers”.
2. Air for Drying and Transportation of pulverized coal (Primary Air): The cold
primary air fans supply the air required for drying the coal in the tube mills/mixing box and for
transporting the pulverized fuel from both ends of the tube mill to the coal burners. The primary
air is heated in the primary sectors of the Rotary RAPH.
The control for the primary air pressure is achieved through PA fan inlet dampers.
3. Scanner Cooling Air: Each boiler is provided with 20 no. VISIBLE LIGHT SCANNER.
The two no. of scanner air fans are providedto supply the required air for cooling these flame
scanners. The supply of air is taken from FD fan discharge. The air is filtered and boosted to the
required pressure by the scanner air fans. Additionally an emergency air supply connection from
atmosphere is provided for supplying the cooling air to the scanners in case both FD fans trip.
4. Seal Air: Six no. of seal air fans are (2 nos. per mill) are provided for each boiler. The sealing
air is required for mill trunounim mill discharges valves and gravimetric feeders of the two seal
air fans provided for each tube mill, one is in operation and the other standby. The seal air takes
suction from the atmosphere.
Gas system:
The flue gases produced in the furnace as a result of combustion, travels upward in the furnace, across
the horizontal pass and downward through the second pass of the boiler to the air pre-heater. Two no.
of induced draft fans are provided to evacuate the flue gas from furnace to the chimney. The ID fans
are provided with hydraulic coupling and inlet damper control.
● PRESERVATION OF BOILERS:
Atmospheric corrosion of ferrous materials proceeds rapidly in the presence of oxygen and moisture.
The oxides produced are objectionable and can be transported to critical heat transfer areas as well as to
the turbine. Pit type corrosion can also occur in walls. In large boilers, with numerous complex dry the
boiler in preparation for storage.
● HEA Ignitors:
HEA Ignitors are provided in this Boiler. This ignitor uses LFO/HFO as main fuel and this is ignited
using spark and is mounted adjacent to oil gun.
● AIR PRE-HEATER
Air pre-heater is a heat exchanger in which air temp. is raised by transferring heat from other fluids
such as flue gas. Since air heater can be successfully employed to reclaim heat from flue gas at lower
temp. level, it is possible with economizer the heat ejected to chimney can be reduced to a great extent
thus increasing the efficiency of a boiler.
● Specification
1. Heating element – Hot end, Hot intermediate, Cold end Materials - Carbon &Corten steel
2. Rotor main drive motor – 11 kW, 1450 rpm, 50 Hz Coupling – Fluid coupling
11.5 fcu
3. Bearing Guide bearing : Spherical roller bearing Support Bearing :
Spherical roller thrust Thermostat: Burling thermostat
4. Oil capacity Guide brg.
Housing : 25 lt. Steam Coil
Airpre-heater
Number of steam Coil APH : 2 Nos per boiler
CONDENSER:-
The functions of condenser are:
1.To provide lowest economic heat rejection temperature from the steam. Thus saving on steam
required per unit of electricity.
2.To convert exhaust steams to water for reuse this saving on feed water requirement.
Condensation of exhaust steam takes place on the outer surface of the tubes, which are cooled by water
flowing inside them.
The condenser essentially consists of a shell, which encloses the steam space. Tubes carrying cooling
water pass through the steam space. The tubes are supplied cooling water from inlet water box on one
side and discharged, after taking away heat form the steam, to the outlet water box on the other side.
Instead of one inlet and one outlet water boxes, they may be to or more air of separate inlet-outlet water
boxes, each supplying cooling water to a separate bundle of tubes. This enables cleaning and
maintenance of part of the tubes while turbine can be kept running on a reduced load.
● Description of condenser
The condenser group consists of two condensers, each connected with exhaust part of low pressure
casing. A by-pass branch pipe has interconnected these woe condensers. The condenser has been
designed to create vacuum at the exhaust of steam turbine and to provide pure condensate for reusing
as feed water for the boilers. The tube layout of condenser has been arranged to ensure efficient heat
transfer from steam to cooling water passing through the tubes, and at the same time the resistance to
flow of steam has been reduced to the barest minimum. 350% capacity condensate pumping sets are
installed for pumping the condensate from condenser to the de-aerator through low-pressure heaters.
Two pumps are for normal operation and one works as stand by pump.
Stainless steel tubes has also been used and has good corrosion resistance through heat transfer
coefficient is quite lower hot and the copper alloy.
This system enables starting of the unit of sliding parameters and also facilities hot restarting of the
unit. In the event of loss of load on the turbine, the bypass system disposes the steam produced by; the
boiler automatically to the condenser without affecting the boiler operation. The bypass system had two
sections LP & HP. The HP-Bypass system diverts the steam before main steam valve to the cold reheat
CRH line. HP Bypass system also reduces the rated steam parameters of the incoming steam from the
superheated to the steam condition expected in the CRH line (i.e. steam temp. and pressure after HP
turbine exhaust).
The LP Bypass diverts the incoming steam from hot reheat line before intercepting valves to the
condenser after reducing the HRH steam parameters to the conditions approximately to that of LP
steam turbine exhaust steam.
2. To maintain or controls steam pressure at pre-set value in main steam line during start up.
2.Establish flow of steam from reheat lines to condenser by its opening, proportional to the opening of
HP bypass valves.
● DEAERATER
Condensate from hot well is pumped to de-aerator by condensate extraction pump. Functions of de-
aerator are:-
3.Regenerative heating of feed water for increasing its temperature and efficiency of plant.
Each pump set consists of a “FA1856” booster pump, directly driven from one end of the shaft of an
electric driving motor, and a “FK6D30” boiler feed pump driven from the opposite end of the motor
shaft through a variable speed turbo-coupling. The drive is transmitted, in each case through a spacer
type flexible coupling. The bearings in the booster pump and pressure stage pump and in the motor are
lubricated from a forced lubricating oil system incorporated in the turbo coupling. The booster pump is
a single stage, horizontal, axial split casing type, having the suction and discharge branches on the
casing bottom half, thus allowing the pump internals to be removed without disturbing the suction and
discharge pipe work of the alignment between the pump and the motor. The pump shaft is sealed at the
drive end and non-drive end by mechanical seals which are flushed by a supply of clarified water.
TECHNICAL DATA:-
Pump type : FA1856
Efficiency : 81 %
● Pump Casing
● Rotating Assembly
● Journal and Thrust Bearing
● Bearing Housing
● Mechanical Seals
● Motor / Pump Casing
BOILER FEED PUMP:-
WORKING:
The FK6D30 type Boiler Feed Pump is a six stage, horizontal centrifugal pump of barrel casing design.
The pump internals are designed as cartilage which can be easily removed for maintenance without
disturbing the suction and discharge piping work or the alignment of the pump and the turbo coupling.
The pump shaft is sealed at the drive end and non-drive end by mechanical seals, each seal being
flushed by water in a closed circuit and which is circulated by the action is cooled by assign through a
seal cooler, one per pump, which is circulated with clarified cooling water. The rotating assembly is
supported by plain white metal lined journal bearings and axially located by a Glacier double tilting
pad thrust bearing.
● TECHNICAL DATA:
Pump type : FK6D30
No. of stages : 6
Efficiency : 81 %
Rating : 3550 KW
Speed : 1485
Efficiency : 78 %
WORKING:-
The condensate Extraction Pumps are of the vertical, eight stage, Centrifugal canister type, with the
driving motor supported on a fabricated head piece and the eight inter connected pump stage are
suspended below the head piece. The pump discharge branch and suction branch are formed on the
head piece above floor level.
The eight pump stages are contained within a fabricated canister, and each stage casing is located by
spigot and secured together with bolts, nuts and lock washer.
The canister is suspended and secure to a foundation ring with screws. The head piece is also secure to
the canister with screws.
Each pump directly driven through a flexible coupling by a 325 KW electric motor.
The blade pitching operation is performed by mechanical linkages connected to a hydraulic servomotor
which is flanged to the impeller.
● Technical Data:
Application : Forced Draft Fan
No. off : 2
▪ Drive Motor:
These fans are driven by constant speed Synchronous Induction motors.
▪ Silencer:
These fans are provided with a silencer to attenuate.
▪ Lubrication:
The lubrications oil for the fan bearings are supplied by the centralized oil pumps which
supply oil for the hydraulic servomotor also.
▪ Recommend Oil:
Servo Prime - 68 of IOC
Turbinal - 68 of HPC
INDUCED DRAFT FAN:-
Radial fans manufactured are single stage, single/double suction, simply supported/ over hung
centrifugal machine which can be used to handle fresh air as hot gases in power plant application.
In this, the medium handled enters the impeller axially and after passing through the impeller leaves
radially. A large part of the energy transferred to the medium is converted into kinetic energy as the
medium passes through the impeller. The spiral casing converts part of the kinetic energy in the
medium to pressure energy. These fans are generally driven by constant speed motors. The output of
the fan is usually controlled by in that dampers or in that guide vanes or by varying the speed of the fan
by suitable speed control device.
● Technical Data:
Application: Induced Draft Fan
No. off : 3
Type : NDZV 33 S
Delivery
● Technical Data:
Application : Primary Air Fan
No. off : 3
Type : AP 2 17/12
Rating : 1400 KW
E.S.P
E.S.P Theory:-
E.S.P. is a highly efficient device for extraction of suspended particles and fly ash from the industrial
flue gases.
● WORKING PRINCIPLE:-
E.S.P can handle large volume of gases from which solid particle are to be removed Advantages of
E.S.P. are:-High collection efficiency Low resistance path for gas Treatment of large volumes at high
temp. Ability of cope with corrosive atm. an E.S.P. can be as a device which utilized electric forces to
separate suspended particles from flue gases.
WORKING STEPS:
Ionization of gases andcharging of dust particles Migration of dust particles. Deposition of charge
particles on collector surface. Removal of particles E.S.P. consist of two sets of electrodes, one in the
form of thin wire, called discharge or emitting electrode in the form of plates. The emitting electrodes
are placed in the center or midway between two plates and are connected to –ve polarity of H.V. D.C
source of order 37 KV collecting electrodes are connected to +ve polarity. The voltage gradient
between electrodes creates “CORONA DISCHARGE”, ionizing the gas molecules. The dust particles
present in flue gases acquire –ve charge and deposited on collecting electrodes. The deposited particles
are removed by knocking the electrode by a process called “RAPPING” DONE BY “RAPPING
MOTORS”.
➢ Cooling Towers:
Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heatto the atmosphere. Cooling
towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to
near the wet –bulb air temperature or rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air
temperature. Common applications include cooling the circulating water used in oil refineries, chemical
plants, power stations.
Type : Y1600-16/2150
Frequency : 50 Hz
Stator Connection : 2Y
Ambient Temperature : 50 0C
Insulation Class B
Weight 17500 kg
CW Pump:
Type is single stage double suction centrifugal pump
Type : 1400S25-1
Power : 1600 kW
Weight : 35000 kg
Head : 25m
NP SHR : 8.5m
Following permutation and combination of operation are possible with installed system. To transfer all
crushed coal received from crusher house to live storage pipe. To transfer part of received crushed coal
to plant balance to storage yard. To deliver the raw coal bunkers part and received crushed coal mixed
with balanced coal from the live storage pipe. To transfer the plant crushed coal at 750 T/hr. from the
reclaim live pile and simultaneously stock and s/ road. The vibrating once as stated above can be
obtained by the use of flap gates which are installed on various chute and to vibrating feeders, installed
on tower. The coal carried on various conveyers shall be main monitored to ensure proper loading and
distributing weightless and vibrating feeders.
WATER TREATMENT:-
● INTRODUCTION:
The natural water contains solid, liquid and gaseous impurities and therefore, this water cannot be used
for the generation of steam in the boilers. The impurities present in the water should be removed before
its use in steam generation. The necessary for reducing the corrosive nature & quantity of dissolved and
suspended solids in feed water has become increasingly important with the advent for high pressure,
critical & supercritical boilers.
IMPURITIES IN WATER:-
The impurities in the feed water are classified as given below –
● Oxygen
● Carbon Dioxide
4.Other Materials
These are mainly turbidity, Salt, Mud, Dirt and other suspended matter
Removal of Impurities:
Our major concern is industrial water treatment, whereby, water used directly or indirectly in an
industrial process is made suitable for that particular application. The use of water in boilers from
steam generation is an obvious industrial use. Depending on the process, varying degrees of purity of
treated water are required. For example, a textile processing unit will require soft and clear water for
process use: a chemical plant or electronic components manufacturing unit will require ultra-pure water
containing total dissolved impurities not exceeding 0.5 mg/liter or less.
MILLING PLANT:-
● Pulverized coal Systems:
For steam generation, there is basically system of pulverization normally in STPS plant used is Direct
Firing System
3. Suction System:
In this system the mill operates under negative pressure. Suction being created by an exhauster placed
after the mill. The exhauster handles all the coal air mixture and forces it into the burners. The
advantage of suction system is that the plant can be maintained clean. The disadvantage of this system
is that the high speed exhauster has to handle coal air mixture and tends to wear more as the pulverized
size increase.
DRUM/TUBE MILLS:-
This type mills is slow speed type. They operate at a speed of 17-20 rev/min and formerly were
designed as suction mills. The mill drum carrying the ball charge rotate in the antifriction bearing.
Raw-coal is fed to the drum through the inlet elbow and gets crushed to power inside the mill drum.
The ball charge and the coal are carried to certain height inside the drum and slowed to fall down. Due
to the impact of the balls on coal particles and due to attrition as the particles slide over each other and
also over the liners, the coal gets crushed. Hot flue gases are used for drying and transporting the
pulverized coal from the mill to the classifier. As a result of this high availability in a tube-ball mill
installation, it is not normal to provide standby milling capacity; this helps to reduce the overall capital
cost of the plant. Power requirements have also been reduced, but they are still much greater than those
for medium speed mills.
➢ Advantage:
● High output possible, up to 50 tones per hour.
● No maintenance over long periods.
● High availability.
● Because of high availability no stand by capacity is required.
● No mill rejects, no problems with ‘tramp’ iron.
● Reserve of fuel within mill makes output more stable.
➢ Disadvantage:
● High power consumption
● Some problems with control of coal level within the mill.
● Virtually constant power consumption at all loads; low load operation of therefore not
economical.
● With high moisture content fuels a high primary air temperature is required because of the low
air/fuel ratio
● Unplanned stops leave the mill full of coal which, under unfavorable conditions, can ignite.
This coal has to be quenched and even dug out otherwise the mill cannot be restart.
COAL FEEDERS:-
Coal feeders deliver the cola from the bunkers to the mill. Since the amount of coal delivered
determines the output of the mill, if follows that the cola flow, through the feeder has to be controlled.
This is normally achieved either by control of feeder speed or by control of the position of a scraper
knife or plough.
GENERATOR
Mechanical energy is converted into electric power the stator winding of generator by the interaction of
rotating magnetic field. Rotating magnetic field is created by field winding mounted on rotor shaft with
the help of excitation system. When the shaft is rotated at 3000 RPM by the coupled turbine electric
power is generated at a voltage 16.5 KV and 50 HZ frequency. Generator is filled with hydrogen gas
for cooling its winding which in turn is cooled by circulating water. The voltage of such generated
electricity is step up to 220kv or 400kv through transformer and power transmitted to RatangarhGSS
for Northern Grid, and different areas of Rajasthan. 6.0 million units energy is generated in 250 MW
unit in a single day, out of this about ten percent is consumed in unit itself for running its auxiliary
equipment like pumps, fans etc. about 3300 metric tons of coal is consumed in one 250 MW unit in one
day.
THEORY:-
Turbo generator manufactured by BHEL in Co-Operate with most modern design concept and
constructional features which ensures reliability, easy and constructional and operational economicity.
There is a provision for cooling water in order to maintain a constant temp. of coolant(hydrogen) which
controls the temp. of winding, core etc. as per loads.
Technical Data:
Apparent power - 294 MVA
1. SWAS package
2. FSSS package
3. ATRS package
4. DDC section
➢ SWAS [Steam Water Analysis System]:-Steam Water Analysis System is full form of
SWAS. SWAS package is use for analysis of steam sample which coming from Boiler. There
are coming nine lines from the Boiler. These nine lines go in cooling system for temperature
maintain. There are two type of cooling system, primary cooling system and secondary cooling
system. The equipment is designed and assembled to enable the conditioning of samples of
Boiler water and steam by reducing the temperature and pressure to a suitable state to enable
the chemical parameters of the sample to be monitored.
Sample conditioning panel comprises:-
Line Numbers:-
2. Condensate pump
Discharge
3. LP Heaters
8. Main steam
9. Hot well
SODIMAT:-
The measurement of sodium in industrial ultrapure waters. The measurement is based on a direct
potentiometric technique. Technique using highly sensitive sodium glass electrode. The difference of
potential between the glass electrode and the reference electrode is directly proportional to the sodium
concentration. Modern high-pressure power plants require feed water of very high purity. Safety in that
sector is of great importance and the sodium measurement plays a specific role compared to pH,
conductivity and silica trace. Actually sodium cat-ions and anions are always linked. Most cat-ions
havea corrosive influence in water and vapour cooling circuits. Because of this chemical link between
sodium ions and anions, sodium presents particularly important risk of corrosion and other effects. The
SODIMAT uses a sodium sensitive glass electrode to measure sodium in a sample which has been
previously conditioned to a pH > 10.
HYDRASTAT:-
Low-carbon steel exhibits a significantly improved resistance to corrosion it in contact with water of
high alkalinity (pH 9-10).
High-pressure circuits operating with the alkaline reign, therefore employ volatile alkalizing agents
such as ammonia in combination with hydrazine to elevate the feed water pH to a level > pH 9.0. the
addition of hydrazine surveys the dual function of an alkalizing agent as well as on oxygen scavenger
thus lowering the level of corrosion. The anodic dissolution of iron in low carbon steels is nominal at
pH 9.5 provide the totally demineralized water is detrimental to the copper tubers of the condenser
because of dissolution of copper, thus imposing an upper limit of pH 9-9.3.
CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT:-
The electric conductivity measures the transport of electric charge in any field. In metal conductors the
current flows by transport of electrons where as in solution. It flows by transportation such as Na+ and
CL-the higher transport of charges in the conductance of the solution. Conductivity is the capacity of a
solution has to conduct current:-
In solution conductivity is much more complicated than in conductors because several species ensure
the transport of charge for instance in drinking water the conductive species registered are sodium,
calcium, magnesium, ferrous cat-ions, ferrites, phosphates and nitrate ions force slightly concentrated
solution. The concentration of H+ protons and hydroxyl OH- ions can no longer be neglected in the
presence of the product. Therefore leads to a non-linear variation conductivity/concentration.
SILICOSTAT:-
HP turbine nozzles and blades may, under the influence of high-pressure superheated steam exhibits
significant capacity and conversion efficiency losses as a result of silica contaminated steam latter
tends to from insoluble deposits all critical part of the turbine leading to surface roughness which, in
turn, is detrimental to turbine efficiency. In order to assure optimum turbine performance continuous
monitoring of silica in superheated steam, boiler water and feed water is of the utmost importance. The
polymetronsilicostat has been designed specifically to complete this task.
Analyzers:-
Lines Coming from Type of Analysis
● Introduction-
All control function related to turbine are realized by Microprocessor based PROCONTROL ATRS
System. This is based on user friendly programming language P10. The system is divided in three sub
groups:
1. SGC-Oil :- Oil pumps(AOP, EOP,JOP) interlocks, automatic &protn. Operation are realized in
this group.
3. SGE-Turbine:- For automatic synchronization of machine to the grid. Procontrol requires serial
data exchange confined to the electronic room (panels), process computer(monitoring) and control
room.
HARDWARE:
The data transmission is performed with two level serial bus system-
● Local Bus:-Local bus interconnects all in[put, output, and processing electronic modules,
which is part of station. Each local bus work independently from any other local bus or intra
plant.
● Intra - Plant Bus:- This bus interconnects its related local buses via coaxial cables. The
local bus can be grouped together in the same panel or distributed in different panels. Each
massage is cyclically transmitted over the local as well as intra plant buses and transmission
frequency is selectable and can be every 10 ms.
PROCONTROL has following basic type of electronic modules:-
LOGIC:-
TURBINE PROTECTION
S.No. SERVICE ALARM TRIP
Protection ON:-
(3)EOP AC PROT.ON
PR<2.1
(ii)EOP DC ON
(JOP-DC)
&TUR
SPEED<510
JOP-1 DIST.
SPD,2800