Energy Audit : Thermal Power, Combined Cycle And Cogeneration Plants

The availability of fossil fuels required for power plants isreducing and their costs increasing rapidly. This gives rise toincrease in the cost of generation of electricity. But electricityregulators have to control the price of electricity so thatconsumers are not stressed with high costs. In addition,environmental considerations are forcing power plants to reduce CO2emissions. Under these circumstances, power plants are constantlyunder pressure to improve the efficiency of operating plants, andto reduce fuel consumption. In order to progress in this direction,it is important that power plants regularly audit their energy usein terms of the operating plant heat rate and auxiliary powerconsumption. Energy Audit of Thermal Power, Combined Cycle, and Cogeneration Plants attempts to refresh the fundamentals of the science andengineering of thermal power plants, and establishes its link withthe real power plant performance data through case studies, andfurther developing techno-economics of the energy efficiencyimprovement measures. This book will rekindle interest in energyaudits and analysis of the data for designing and implementation ofenergy conservation measures on a continuous basis.?? Key features: ?????? Extensive coverage of basic design concepts andequipment details ?????? Specific details on methodology for energy audit datacollection for different equipment/subsystems ?????? Analysis of data with the basic objective of energyefficiency improvement of different equipment/subsystems of a powerplant ?????? Techno-economics of each energy efficiency/energyconservation measure, to enable management to take right investmentdecisions ???????? Insightful discussions on advanced technologieslike supercritical and IGCC power generation systems Contents:?? ?? 1 Energy conservation in operation of thermal power plants Section A Design Concepts 2 Design concepts of steam cycle power plants 3 Design concepts of cogeneration plants 4 Design concepts of combined cycle