Steam Power Plant - 20KW BSG 010

Steam Power Plant – 20KW BSG 010

Sci-tech Steam Power Plant Model BSG 010S is an Energy Conversion Equipment used to obtain useful power or electricity from fuels by generating steam at high pressures and temperatures and absorbing the energy contained in the steam in a turbine. The turbine is coupled to devices such as Generator, Pump or Compressor. Thus the energy contained in the fuel is converted to useful purposes.

Size: 250cm x 150cm x 125cm (LxWxH)
Weight: 380 kg

Item Description

Sci-tech Steam Power Plant Model BSG 010 for output up to 20KW, is an Energy Conversion Equipment used to obtain useful power or electricity from fuels by generating steam at high pressures and temperatures and absorbing the energy contained in the steam in a turbine. The turbine is coupled to devices such as Generator, Pump or Compressor. Thus the energy contained in the fuel is converted to useful purposes.

Steam Power Plants are complex and consist of several components which are of interest to various training fields such as Power Plant Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics, Energy Conversion, Heat Transfer, Electronics and Controls.

 

Important Features

The Laboratory Scale Unit is designed and developed to enable students conduct experiments to study various functional aspects of Steam Power Plant and its components. The Unit consists of the following important components:

  • Boiler with a Super Heater to generate super heated steam
  • Turbine, Generator and a Loading system to absorb, measure and dissipate the energy transferred from the steam to the turbine.
  • Condenser Heat Exchanger to condense steam exhausting from the turbine
  • Cooling Tower and Pump to cool the condensate from the Condenser and feed the water back to the Boiler.

The Boiler unit is fed by a Fuel Tank and the Feed Water. Feed Water Treatment includes Regenerating-ion exchange and chemical metering. The water-steam circuit can be operated in closed, Open or partially open modes. All components of the unit are designed and fabricated as per the established norms for safety of devices.

All relevant properties and parameters will be measured using Sensors and Transducers and important parameters are displayed on the Control Panel – HMI. The Unit is self sufficient and complete with instrumentation, PLC based monitoring and control and ‘Sci-CalR’ based data acquisition and processing.

In addition to the basic studies related to the steam power plant and its components, the equipment  provide all arrangements of measurements and data acquisition to conduct wide variety of experiments related to properties of steam, single cylinder steam engine, flow through nozzles, heat  transfer in power plant components, feed water treatment and cooling tower performance.

Technical Specifications

Major Specifications and Technical Data of Steam Power Plant

  • Laboratory-sized steam power plant
  • Electrically or Gas or Oil-fired once-through steam boiler with electrical super-heater
  • Single-stage industrial steam turbine with Curtis wheel
  • Electronic speed control with electro-pneumatic control valve
  • Synchronous generator with PPU synchronizing device for grid connected or stand-alone operation
  • Water-cooled condenser with cooling water circuit and wet cooling tower
  • Feed-water treatment with ion exchanger and chemical dosing
  • Modern digital system control via a process control system
  • Control station with complete instrumentation on modern HMI monitor, touchscreen operation

 Steam boiler

  • steam output: 600kg/h at 13bar
  • heat output: 393kW
  • fuel consumption: 36,8kg/h

Super-heater, capacity: 32kW, 250°C

Single-stage action turbine with Curtis wheel and electronic speed control

  • power output: 20kW at 3600min-1

Synchronous generator

  • output: 17kVA with 400V, 50/60Hz, 3 Ph

Water-cooled condenser

  • cooling capacity: 389kW
  • transfer surface: 5,5m2

Cooling tower, max. cooling capacity: 540kW

Mains Input: 400V, 50Hz, 3 phases

Steam Plant Simulation Software

This software simulates a single burner, fuel gas fired boiler for training boiler plant operators, and instrumentation and process control personnel. The boiler can be brought online and fully loaded in a manner that closely follows an actual boiler start up. The simulation includes 3 element / 1 element drum level control, cross limited fuel air ratio control and a burner management system that follows the requirements set down set down in NFPA 8501 Chapter 2 Single Burner Boilers. The boiler is equipped with double block and single vent valves on the main burner and pilot. The dynamics of the boiler can be easily changed to mimic various sizes of boilers. Win Boilers Sim makes extensive use of animation. Steaming, valve position, flame size, drum level, fan and feed-water pump are all animated variables that change with the appropriate process or controller variable.

Audio Visual Source

            Boiler Operation & Control

This eight-part video series presents an overview of basic boiler operation and control concepts,

techniques and strategies. It emphasizes efficiency, safety and the use of proper control techniques

on both coal-fired and gas-fired applications.

  • Basic Boiler Operation
  • Boiler Mechanical Systems
  • Combustion Process Overview
  • Boiler Type Operating Considerations
  • Review of Control Terminology & Fundamentals
  • Firing Rate Control & Air/Fuel Coordination
  • Combustion Air & Fuel Control Systems
  • Drum Level, Blow down & Steam Temperature Control

Boiler Efficiency & Optimization

This five-part video series introduce the theory, mathematical concepts and techniques of boiler optimization and efficiency. Prior technical educational or industrial experience with process

control is essential for through understanding of the subject matter.

  • Draft Pressure & Burner Management Control
  • Boiler & Combustion Efficiency Calculations
  • Boiler Performance & Air Heater
  • Boiler Load Allocation
  • Boiler Soot Control

 

Experiments

  • Basic Steam Power Plant
  1. Familiarization with the operation, monitoring, control and safety aspects of steam power plant and its components.
  2. Thermodynamic cycle analysis of steam power plant and comparison with a RANKINE cycle.
  3. Study of power output and efficiency aspects of steam power plant including fuel consumption, steam consumption, output power, thermodynamic efficiency, mechanical efficiency, at various working conditions.
  4. Study of various aspects of closed, open and partially open steam-water circuit and the effect on the power plant performance.
  5. Study of regeneration and partial feed water heating using exhaust steam from the boiler.

 

  • Steam Power Plant Component Performance Studies
  1. Study of feed water supply and treatment.
  2. Study of boiler performance including output, thermodynamic efficiency and various aspects of heat transfer.
  3. Study of exhaust flue gas from the boiler
  4. Study of super heater and effect of super heating on power plant performance.
  5. Study of heat balance and effectiveness of the condenser.
  6. Study of the overall heat transfer coefficient in the condenser under conditions of inlet and outlet pressure and rate of cooling flow
  7. Study of performance of cooling tower.

 

  • Study of Properties of Steam and related Experiments
  1. Investigation of the relationship between the saturation temperature and saturation pressure of steam.
  2. comparison of the experimental observations of steam properties with published data as in steam tables
  3. To demonstrate that condensing steam is a closed system will produce a vacuum
  4. Study of principle of working of Separating and Throttling calorimeter

 

                (D) Study of Flow Through Nozzles

  1. Study of the variation of pressure along a nozzle profile as a function of back pressure
  2. Study of the effect of back pressure on the mass flow rate in the nozzle.
  3. Comparison of theoretical and actual throat pressures in the nozzle at various flow rates
  4. Determination of critical pressure ratio for chocked flow in the nozzle.
  5. Calculation of velocity distribution along the length of nozzles of various forms.
  6. Study of the effects of friction in a parallel nozzle.
  7. Study of over expansion and under expansion in the nozzle.
  8. Study of shock wave formation within the nozzle divergence and at the nozzle exit.

 

(E) Experiments on Steam Engine

  1. Thermodynamic analysis of the Steam Engine Cycle
  2. Study of the mean effective pressure, brake power, indicated power, steam consumption and mechanical efficiency of a single cylinder steam engine under varying loads and constant speed.

 

EXPERIMENTS LIST

  1. Familiarisation with operation, monitoring, control and safety aspects of steam power plant and its components.
  2. Thermodynamic cycle analysis of steam power plant and comparison with Rankine cycle.
  3. Study of performance of steam power plant at various load conditions.
  4. Study of feed water supply and treatment.
  5. Study of various aspect of closed, open and partially open steam-water circuit.
  6. Study of boiler performance including output, thermodynamic efficiency and aspects of heat transfer.
  7. Study of super heater performance.
  8. Study of heat balance and effectiveness of the condenser.
  9. Study of performance of cooling tower.
  10. Investigation of the relationship between the temperature and pressure of saturated steam.
  11. comparison of the experimental observations with published data as in the steam tables
  12. The variation of static pressure along the steam nozzle profile as a function of back pressure
  13. The effect of back pressure on the mass flow rate in the nozzle
  14. Comparison of theoretical and actual throat pressures in the nozzle at various on flow rates
  15. Determination of critical pressure ratio for chocked flow in the nozzle
  16. Calculation of flow velocity along the length of nozzles of various forms
  17. Study of the effects of friction in a parallel nozzle
  1. Study of over expansion and under expansion nozzle, shock wave formation within nozzle divergence and at nozzle outlet.
  2. To investigate the overall heat transfer coefficient of a condenser under conditions of inlet and outlet pressure and rate of cooling flow.
  3. To demonstrate that the condensing steam in a closed system will produce a vacuum
  4. To determine the mean effective pressure, brake power, indicated power, steam consumption and mechanical efficiency of a single cylinder steam engine under varying loads and constant speed
  5. Study heat balance and effectiveness of condenser.
  6. Study of superheated steam performance
  7. Study of boiler performance, including output thermal dynamic efficiency and heat transfer aspects.
  8. Study the principle of water treatment and supply

Model Number

BSG 010

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