Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, the effects of variation in ambient temperature, flue gas temperature and condenser pressure over performance of boiler and turbine cycle is presented. The study is carried out with EES software. The change in ambient temperature is seriously deteriorating the boiler exergetic performance as its exergy efficiency reduces by 2.5% with increase in environmental temperature from 27C to 45C while the boiler total energy loss reduces almost 1% for same increase in ambient temperature. The turbine second law efficiency is affected slightly by ambient temperature. Increase in temperature of exhaust flue gas has adverse effect over boiler energy efficiency, which reduces by almost 1% with flue gas temperature variation from 110C to 130C. The increase in condenser pressure is reducing the turbine energy efficiency to more than 3% with variation from 0.05bar to 0.3bar. Condenser exergy efficiency is decreasing sharply with increase in its pressure. The effect of variation in condenser pressure over net output of the boiler-turbine cycle has also been studied and it is found to be decreasing with increase in condenser pressure. Keyword: Ambient temperature, Boiler-turbine cycle, Condenser pressure, Flue gas, Plant performance.

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