Power Generation Retrofitting Optimising Power Plant Performance

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-02-11
Publisher(s): WILEY
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Summary

Power Generation Retrofitting - Optimizing Power Plant Performance reviews the experience of previous retrofitting projects and assesses the options currently available from power plant and equipment manufacturers. The book also considers the likely future demand for retrofit services from the UK and overseas markets.Power Generation Retrofitting - Optimizing Power Plant Performance will be of value to those involved in the management, operation, or maintenance of existing plant and to those involved in the design, development, and servicing of steam plant and auxiliary systems.CONTENTS INCLUDE: How high-tech fossil-fuel handling can minimize profit loss when retrofitting steam power generation plant Exchanging rotary heaters The role of the plate heat exchanger in achieving improved performance on steam power generation plant Low-mass-flux, vertical tube furnace retrofit at Yaomeng in the People's Republic of China Optimized plant retrofits New life for older plants - recent utility boilers refurbishment experience.

Author Biography

Paul Winkle is the author of Power Generation Retrofitting: Optimising Power Plant Performance, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
How High-tech Fossil-fuel Handling can Minimize Profit Loss when Retrofitting Steam Power Generation Plantp. 1
Exchanging Rotary Heatersp. 15
The Role of the Plate Heat Exchanger in Achieving Improved Performance on Steam Power Generation Plantp. 31
Low-mass-flux, Vertical Tube Furnace Retrofit at Yaomeng in the People's Republic of Chinap. 45
Steam Turbine Retrofits on Non-OEM Plantp. 67
Improvements in Efficiency, Accuracy, and Stability using a Novel Fluid-film Bearingp. 85
200 MW LMZ Turbines--Modernization and Retrofitp. 93
Retrofitting Steam Power Generation Plant for Improved Performancep. 113
Optimized Plant Retrofitsp. 127
New Life for Older Plants--Recent Utility Boiler Refurbishment Experiencep. 139
Indexp. 147
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